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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. The White House just said your life is worth nothing. Yes, literally.

    12 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  2. Tell HN: YouTube gave my username switzerland to a half government organization

    12 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  3. Namecheap sued a YC founder personally after shutting down her startup's domain

    12 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  4. Stealing Isn't Innovation – America's creative community message against AI

    12 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  5. I Burned $160k Trying to Solve "Online Tailoring"

    12 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  6. Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales

    12 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  7. High-speed train crash in southern Spain leaves at least 21 dead

    12 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  8. Health Insurers in Shock After Medicare Holds Line on 2027 Payments

    12 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  9. Cataloging Failed VC-Backed Startups and Re-Evaluating Them in 2026

    12 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  10. UK ministers launch consultation on whether to ban social media for under-16s

    12 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  11. CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes a Security Issue Present Since 1996

    12 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  12. Open Veins of Latin America Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent [pdf]

    12 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  13. Show HN: An LLM response cache that's aware of dynamic data

    12 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  14. Companies reap $22B from Trump's immigration crackdown

    12 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  15. Why do SublimeText, VSCode Ctrl-Shift-P instead of Ctrl-K for the command bar?

    12 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  16. NASA orders "controlled medical evacuation" from the International Space Station

    12 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  17. The Rise of Computer Games, Part II: Digitizing Nerddom

    12 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  18. American hybrid warfare against Greenland during the second Trump administration

    12 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  19. Good Judgment Open

    12 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  20. Dilbert creator Scott Adams doesn't expect to live much longer

    12 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  21. Speak in code, delete the chats: The tactics Venezuelans are using out of fear

    12 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  22. People cannot "just pay attention" to (boring, routine) things

    12 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  23. Micron finds a way to make more DRAM with $1.8B chip plant purchase

    12 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  24. Show HN: Control Claude permissions using a cloud-based decision table UI

    12 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  25. SFPark: Interactive map of SF parking regulations

    12 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  26. Almost 12,000 flights canceled as major winter storm bears down across US

    12 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  27. Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin – Six New Chips

    12 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  28. State Terror Has Arrived

    12 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  29. Welcome Back to the Office. You Won't Get Anything Done

    12 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  30. Show HN: SpeechOS – Wispr Flow-inspired voice input for any web app

    12 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  31. The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I'm Ignoring the Prophets of Doom

    12 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  32. Scott Adams Has Died

    12 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  33. I made a lofi page for late night work

    12 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  34. Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare: Microsoft says some PCs might not boot

    12 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  35. Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?

    12 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  36. Donald Trump says US is 'going to run' Venezuela after overnight strikes

    12 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  37. Java: An ecosystem worth billions with IDEs in peril

    12 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  38. Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish

    12 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  39. RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

    12 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  40. Raspberry Pi Reliability: how to reduce writes to your SD card

    12 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  41. YC Cofounder Matching inbox stuck in infinite loading loop – anyone else?

    12 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  42. Ask HN: Did past "bubbles" have so many people claiming we were in a bubble?

    12 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  43. The Lost Subways

    12 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  44. What Is Starlink Mesh? – Starlink Help Center

    12 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  45. Unsung US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin dies, aged 86

    12 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  46. Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

    12 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  47. Y Combinator is no longer investing in Canadian startups

    12 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  48. Third Pole

    12 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  49. Read the Texts Between Trump and Norway's Prime Minister About Greenland

    12 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  50. TIL: I am an open-source contributor

    12 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  51. Apple Says 'Pixelmator' App on iOS Will No Longer Receive Updates

    12 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  52. Pre-Agent Nostalgia

    12 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  53. A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred

    12 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  54. New Vulnerability in n8n – CVE-2026-21858

    12 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  55. Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers [pdf]

    12 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  56. Clear skies and autonomous Waymo rides at SFO

    12 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  57. MAKERphone 2: first modular DIY phone, no soldering

    12 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  58. Can Walking Be My Whole Workout?

    12 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  59. Show HN: Axis – A systems programming language with Python syntax

    12 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  60. Secret ICE Programs Revealed

    12 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  61. Godot 4.6 Release

    12 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  62. America's $3T Nuclear Bet (HALEU) [video]

    12 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  63. FCC Helps Verizon Make It Harder for You to Switch Wireless Carriers

    12 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  64. Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump

    12 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  65. Show HN: Open database of link metadata for large-scale analysis

    12 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  66. Ask HN: If you had $10M in the bank, would you still show up to your job?

    12 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  67. Show HN: LangGraph architecture that scales (hexagonal pattern, 110 tests)

    12 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  68. OpenAI API and ChatGPT are down

    12 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  69. Mistral Launches Vibe 2.0

    12 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  70. Tether says it bought 27 tons of gold in fourth quarter

    12 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  71. Venezuela: A turning point for freedom of speech in the USA

    12 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  72. So You've Decided to Become Dead to the World: On Becoming an Anchoress

    12 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  73. River Runner

    12 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  74. The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature

    12 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  75. How fast can you read? [video]

    12 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  76. BookLore: A self-hosted, multi-user digital library

    12 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  77. 2026 looks ominous for media, from Hollywood to journalism

    12 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  78. Show HN: Drum machine VST made with React/C++

    12 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  79. My Attempt at Independence from Big-Tech

    12 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  80. S4 (Severe) Solar Radiation Storm in Progress

    11 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  81. Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision

    11 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  82. Apple Drops $2B on Israeli AI Facial Tracking Company

    11 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  83. Surviving Rome – the surprising truths about everyday life in the empire

    11 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  84. Non-consensual Grok deepfakes endanger women

    11 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  85. A Single Diplomatic Meeting Crashed Gold 7% in One Hour

    11 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  86. After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes

    11 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  87. Show HN: Hosting 100 Linux dev environments on one VM using LXC

    11 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  88. We need more water than rain can provide: refilling rivers with desalination

    11 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  89. Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel Prize snub in letter

    11 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  90. New books aren't worth reading?

    11 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  91. American Closed Source vs. Chinese Open Source: A False Dichotomy

    11 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  92. Analysing Footage of Minneapolis ICE Shooting

    11 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  93. Pebble Round 2

    11 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  94. Show HN: C-TURTL, a turtle graphics game

    11 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  95. Mitsubishi Delica Is the Smallest Camper Van You'll See in 2026

    11 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  96. Study: Managers with first-born daughters, hire more women and pay more equal [pdf]

    11 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  97. AWS Duvet: a bidirectional link between implementation and specification

    11 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  98. A terminal-based browser with Sixel graphics

    11 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  99. PauseOS: Distraction-Free Phone OS

    11 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  100. Integrating WebView with Nature Programming Language

    11 points • comment • jan 21, 2026