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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Robin Williams tickles Coco the monkey

    9 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  2. US Auto Sales Poised to Slip as Middle-Class Buyers Retreat

    9 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  3. Families reeling, businesses suffering after ICE raided Ventura cannabis farms

    9 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  4. Ask HN: What did you learn in 2025?

    9 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  5. My Electronics Blog Article: Why I Loathe TTL

    9 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  6. Show HN: Autonomous recovery for distributed training jobs

    9 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  7. Can't get motivated? This brain circuit might explain why–it can be turned off

    9 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  8. Iran Limits Traders to 20 Minutes of Supervised Internet Access per Day

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  9. Grey Market Peptides: Not for Human Consumption

    9 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  10. Publish Your Work

    9 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  11. The US is buying icebreakers from Finland

    9 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  12. How WhatsApp Scaled to Billions of Users

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  13. X restricts Grok image generation capabilities for all users

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  14. Go 1.26 Is Around the Corner: Small Changes, Big Impact for Real-World Go System

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  15. How the bubble bursts – This time isn't different

    8 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  16. Police Unmask Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  17. How do you keep AI-generated applications consistent as they evolve over time?

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  18. U.S. Judge in Mangione Case Rules Prosecutors Cannot Seek Death Penalty

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  19. Austrian cow shows first case of flexible, multi-purpose tool use in cattle

    8 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  20. Grok Created Sexualized Images

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  21. Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  22. Caliper: Right-size your CI runners

    8 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  23. Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1

    8 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  24. cURL stopped HackerOne bug bounty program due to excessive slop reports

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  25. Ask HN: Does "Zapier for payment automation" exist?

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  26. Jerome Powell's being threatened [video]

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  27. There is No Now – Problems with simultaneity in distributed systems

    8 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  28. The Anti-Hat Riots of 1973

    8 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  29. Will AI Pet My Dog for Me

    8 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  30. The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  31. The Peptide Craze, a Surge in Use of Off-Label and Non-FDA Approved Peptides

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  32. Alexa.com, a new way to interact with Alexa+

    8 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  33. Show HN: Geoguess Lite – open-source, subscription free GeoGuessr alternative

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  34. SVGs are uniquely legible to LLMs

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  35. Ask HN: What AI feature looked in demos and failed in real usage? Why?

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  36. Mystery: Why do some LLMs produce more coil noise on Mac Studio M3 Ultra?

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  37. Adviser of Highest EU Court Backs VPN Neutrality in Anne Frank Copyright Battle

    8 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  38. Why autosave is not recovery

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  39. Ken Thompson on How a Disk Scheduling Algorithm Became Unix [video]

    8 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  40. The all new Mecha Comet, live on Kickstarter

    8 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  41. The modern peril of the availability heuristic

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  42. Foreigners' data stolen in hack of French immigration agency

    8 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  43. TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  44. Attilio Berni plays the sub-contrabass saxophone [video]

    8 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  45. Federal immigration agents filmed dragging a woman from her car in Minneapolis

    8 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  46. Starlink Users in Iran Get Free Internet Access, Nonprofit Says

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  47. There's a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  48. AI Econ Seminar

    8 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  49. Police chief apologises after AI error used to justify Maccabi Tel Aviv ban

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  50. I Cut My Docker Image by 99.7% (846MB to 2.5MB). Here Is the Full Breakdown

    8 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  51. Amdahl's Law and Agentic Coding

    8 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  52. Young Men Are Lost. A New Book Can Guide the Way

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  53. I built a quantum internet that runs on your WiFi

    8 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  54. Show HN: I made R/place for LLMs

    8 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  55. Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  56. What ICE Did to Alex Pretti Is Somehow Worse Than We Thought

    8 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  57. As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  58. DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  59. Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Understand

    8 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  60. Amazon Will Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Layoffs

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  61. Thirteen Months That Changed IBM (2020)

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  62. TikTok reports 'major infrastructure issue' causing app glitches, bugs

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  63. Ed Feulner, Ed Meese and the Heritage Foundation's Exodus

    8 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  64. Tailwind creator: we had six months left

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  65. ICEout.Tech demand letter from tech community

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  66. VibeVoice-ASR: speech-to-text model designed to handle 60-minute long-form audio

    8 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  67. Xi's Enforcers Punished Nearly a Million in 2025–and China's Leader Wants More

    8 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  68. Scott Adams Dead: Dilbert Creator Was 68

    8 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  69. The new Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14

    8 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  70. Coffeezilla: The most overrated scam investigator

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  71. I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem

    8 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  72. Dieter Rams and ten principles for good design

    8 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  73. YouTube video: sonic weaponry used against Minnesota demonstrators, 26/01/26

    8 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  74. Failed part on UPS plane that crashed in KY failed 4x on other planes previously

    8 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  75. Urban Surveillance

    8 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  76. AI Was Supposed to "Revolutionize" Work. In Many Offices, It's Creating Chaos

    8 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  77. CheriBSD: FreeBSD that takes advantage of CHERI

    8 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  78. Apple OSes Are Insecure by Design to Aid Surveillance (2024)

    8 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  79. Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native

    8 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  80. A Canadian's Call to Arms, Being Pissed Off at the State of Computing

    8 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  81. Are You YES AI or No AI?

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  82. Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working on Linux with Patched Wine

    8 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  83. Ask HN: Where is society heading, is there a plan for a jobless future?

    8 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  84. Asus on integrated graphics in gaming laptops being the norm

    8 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  85. Google automatically emails 13 year olds to allow them to opt out of parental s

    8 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  86. China blocks Nvidia H200 AI chips that US Government cleared for export– report

    8 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  87. Pipelining and prefetching: a 45% speedup story

    8 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  88. Microsoft CEO warns AI must 'do something useful' or lose 'social permission'

    8 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  89. EMF Exposure from a Substation Could Be Cause of 49ers' Tendon Rupture Epidemic

    8 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  90. Tech companies increasingly defeated by communities opposed to data centers

    8 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  91. When Constitutional Guardrails Fail

    8 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  92. Uber Pushes to Cap Personal Injury “Billboard” Lawyer Payouts A.G. 25-0022 [pdf]

    8 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  93. Apple turning to Intel for future iPhone chips, analyst reaffirms

    8 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  94. Mike Pompeo says history books should ignore Gaza's victims – Middle East Eye

    8 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  95. Ask HN: Why do AI code editors suck at closing tags?

    8 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  96. Steam On Linux Ends 2025 With 3.19% Marketshare

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  97. Why are we still so afraid of using the grumpy old period?

    8 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  98. Students Are Finding New Ways to Cheat on the SAT

    8 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  99. Worst of Breed – How to make bad software

    8 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  100. Residues: Time, Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture [video]

    8 points • comment • jan 02, 2026