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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. My thoughts on Gas Town after 10k hours of Claude Code

    13 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  2. Why the Tech World Thinks the American Dream Is Dying

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  3. Norway zips ahead in EV race as car sales hit 96% electric

    13 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  4. EquipmentShare (YC W15) goes public

    13 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  5. OpenAI's president is a Trump mega-donor

    13 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  6. LLM Ad Blockers are coming

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  7. NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing): The unsung hero of Internet history

    13 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  8. Representing Hierarchies

    13 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  9. The Manifold Mind of Saul Bellow

    13 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  10. DOGE improperly shared sensitive social security data, DOJ court filing reveals

    13 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  11. Amazon laying off about 16,000 corporate workers in latest anti-bureaucracy push

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  12. Good if make prior after data instead of before

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  13. Interfaces and Traits in C

    13 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  14. Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years

    13 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  15. Academic Slop Just Reached a New Low

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  16. AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking dark

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  17. Why I'm skipping Dry January

    13 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  18. Discworld MUD

    13 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  19. ICE says officers can forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant

    13 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  20. Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android

    13 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  21. Blaze: A Dec VT420 (and More) Emulator

    13 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  22. Deaths and deportations of citizens by Trump administration

    13 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  23. Experiments with Kafka's head-of-line blocking (2023)

    13 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  24. I'm Betting That OpenAI Will Go Broke

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  25. They Quit Their Day Jobs to Bet on Current Events

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  26. Who sets the Doomsday Clock?

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  27. How to Leave Germany

    13 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  28. Shopify CEO vibe codes an MRI viewer

    13 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  29. The Netherlands rethinks its US tech addiction

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  30. 'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 HR

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  31. Many college players among dozens charged in point-shaving plot

    13 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  32. I am moving away from Scala

    13 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  33. Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

    13 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  34. Anyone building software for wearable tech?

    13 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  35. For Fascists, Hypocrisy Is a Virtue

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  36. C-Sentinel: System prober that captures “system fingerprints” for AI analysis

    13 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  37. OpenAI Asking Contractors to Upload Work from Past Jobs to Evaluate AI Agents

    13 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  38. The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs

    13 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  39. Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

    13 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  40. Pulling a New Proof from Knuth's Fixed-Point Printer

    13 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  41. Russia's Grinding War – Massive Losses and Tiny Gains for a Declining Power

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  42. X UK revenues drop nearly 60% in a year as content concerns spook advertisers

    13 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  43. Apple: You (Still) Don't Understand the Vision Pro

    13 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  44. Trump announces one-year 10% cap on credit card interest rates

    13 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  45. Show HN: DebtBomb – Make TODOs expire and automatically create Jira tickets

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  46. New California Laws Going into Effect in 2026

    13 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  47. Linux Conclave

    13 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  48. SkyPilot: One system to use and manage all AI compute (K8s, 20 clouds, Slurm)

    13 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  49. Notes on Taiwan

    13 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  50. Moltbot Security Guide: Protect Your VPS from Hackers and Vulnerabilities

    13 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  51. Why Read Novels?

    13 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  52. ICE violated at least 96 court orders in January

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  53. Solve the MH370 Paradox in 10 Seconds

    13 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  54. The most dangerous code: Validating SSL certs in non-browser software (2012) [pdf]

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  55. RT Superconductivity at 298K in Ternary LaScH System at High-Pressure Conditions

    13 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  56. Ask HN: Has anyone else been struggling with search lately?

    13 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  57. Web-based video editor powered by WebGPU

    13 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  58. Visual Family Cosmos

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  59. Show HN: ContextFort – Visibility and controls for browser agents

    13 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  60. Show HN: I built VanCamera: FOSS, secure, zero-config Android webcam for Windows

    13 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  61. Fed Chair Powell says he's under criminal investigation

    13 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  62. Texas Police Invested Millions in Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software

    13 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  63. The US has officially started selling Venezuelan oil

    13 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  64. CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr

    13 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  65. Show HN: Commit-based code review instead of PR-based

    13 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  66. Amazon demands proof of productivity from employees, asking for accomplishments

    13 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  67. Medical Situation on the ISS

    13 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  68. Iran Goes Dark as Government Cuts Itself Off from Internet

    13 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  69. We traced hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia edits back to UC networks

    13 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  70. DeepSeek kicks off 26 with paper signalling push to train bigger models for less

    13 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  71. 'It's ridiculous': publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served

    13 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  72. Code World Model

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  73. VW considers pulling out of US factory plans due to tariffs

    13 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  74. Curl to end Bug Bounty program due to overwhelming number of AI submissions

    13 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  75. Google's Technical Writing Courses

    13 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  76. KDE Plasma will no longer sleep when your controller is plugged in

    13 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  77. Tell HN: Get a dying iPhone 12 mini in 2026

    13 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  78. Greenland: Macron warns of 'cascading consequences' if US seizes island

    13 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  79. Open Source for Phones: PostmarketOS

    12 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  80. Air Pollution in World: Real-Time Air Quality Index Visual Map

    12 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  81. Cars gobbling up your data and showing ads are becoming the new normal

    12 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  82. California governor proposes $200M in new state EV tax rebates

    12 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  83. What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases?

    12 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  84. Ask HN: How locked down are your work machines?

    12 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  85. Markdown Emphasis Issues in CJK: Analyzing CommonMark's Delimiter Rules

    12 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  86. Texas A&M Ends Women's Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender

    12 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  87. Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites during hacker conference

    12 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  88. Civil Resistance

    12 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  89. Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Account of Killing

    12 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  90. Fixing Breadboards for Wide Microcontrollers – Pico and ESP32 Edition

    12 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  91. Show HN: GitClassic.com, GitHub circa 2015 without JS & AI

    12 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  92. Catching API regressions with snapshot testing

    12 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  93. DiskImage: A powerful floppy disk image manager with built-in bitstream analysis

    12 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  94. Owning a Domain Increases Digital Self-Reliance

    12 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  95. Show HN: Munimet.ro – ML-based status page for the local subways in SF

    12 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  96. Dual citizenship could be on the chopping block in America

    12 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  97. Why there's no European Google? And why it is a good thing

    12 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  98. Designing Forms That Don't Get in the Way

    12 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  99. Maine's Immigrant Students Stay Home as ICE Operation Ramps Up

    12 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  100. Trump threatens tariffs on French wines to get Macron to join Board of Peace

    12 points • comment • jan 20, 2026