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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Sergey Brin's Unretirement

    369 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  2. Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

    368 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  3. I made my own Git

    367 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  4. A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap

    365 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  5. The C3 Programming Language

    365 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  6. Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?

    365 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  7. ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants

    364 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  8. GLM-4.7-Flash

    364 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  9. Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

    363 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  10. LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

    363 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  11. Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default

    363 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  12. Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

    362 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  13. Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities

    362 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  14. List of individual trees

    359 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  15. Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU

    357 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  16. Can Bundler be as fast as uv?

    357 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  17. BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal

    356 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  18. 1000 Blank White Cards

    356 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  19. So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?

    354 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  20. A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time

    354 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  21. US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it

    353 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  22. The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice

    353 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  23. Find a pub that needs you

    353 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  24. Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

    352 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  25. London–Calcutta bus service

    349 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  26. Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance

    348 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  27. Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

    345 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  28. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

    343 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  29. The browser is the sandbox

    343 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  30. What happened to WebAssembly

    342 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  31. Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

    342 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  32. US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

    341 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  33. Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

    341 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  34. There is an AI code review bubble

    340 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  35. During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

    340 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  36. ASCII Clouds

    340 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  37. Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users

    338 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  38. When employees feel slighted, they work less

    338 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  39. To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI

    337 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  40. Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

    337 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  41. JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters

    337 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  42. The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]

    336 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  43. eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update

    335 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  44. Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]

    335 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  45. Gentoo Linux 2025 Review

    335 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  46. Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

    334 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  47. Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)

    334 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  48. Show HN: The HN Arcade

    333 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  49. Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

    333 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  50. AI is a business model stress test

    331 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  51. Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers

    331 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  52. Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says

    331 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  53. ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions

    329 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  54. Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

    329 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  55. Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2

    329 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  56. Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

    327 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  57. A list of fun destinations for telnet

    326 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  58. Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)

    324 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  59. ACM Is Now Open Access

    322 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  60. Every GitHub object has two IDs

    322 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  61. There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

    321 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  62. Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

    320 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  63. Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async

    318 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  64. Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

    317 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  65. Welcome to Gas Town

    317 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  66. Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned

    317 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  67. The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

    317 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  68. Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

    317 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  69. Oh My Zsh adds bloat

    317 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  70. Can I start using Wayland in 2026?

    315 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  71. Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes

    314 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  72. Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome F. Powell [video]

    314 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  73. JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)

    314 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  74. Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them

    314 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  75. Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'

    313 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  76. Is Rust faster than C?

    313 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  77. Lock-Picking Robot

    311 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  78. Software Pump and Dump

    310 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  79. Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

    309 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  80. New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis

    309 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  81. The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)

    308 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  82. The next two years of software engineering

    308 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  83. I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue

    308 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  84. Vibe coding kills open source

    308 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  85. Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see

    307 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  86. GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

    307 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  87. IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT

    306 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  88. Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them

    305 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  89. UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence

    304 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  90. Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC

    304 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  91. Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

    303 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  92. The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform

    303 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  93. ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?

    302 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  94. Tesla is committing automotive suicide

    301 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  95. The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

    301 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  96. Changes to Android Open Source Project

    301 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  97. Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89

    300 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  98. Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores

    300 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  99. Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

    299 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  100. In praise of –dry-run

    299 points • comment • jan 31, 2026