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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Nintendo Bans Infamous Japanese "Adult Only" Animal Crossing Island

    7 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  2. Icebreakers in the Arctic: An Overlooked Environmental Concern

    7 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  3. Building an eBPF/XDP L2 Direct Server Return Load Balancer from Scratch

    7 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  4. Claude’s Constitution: Our vision for Claude's character

    7 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  5. Weaponized (teeny tiny) black holes

    7 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  6. America's raid on Venezuela reveals the limits of China's reach

    7 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  7. AI hallucinate. Do you ever double check the output?

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  8. Cancer might protect against Alzheimer's – this protein helps explain why

    7 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  9. Nvidia Nemotron 3-Nano 30B-A3B-BF16

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  10. wkhtmltopdf - Convert HTML to PDF Using QtWebKit (2021)

    7 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  11. OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter's Modern AI Course

    7 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  12. Oak-killing beetle reaches Ventura County, significantly expanding range

    7 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  13. Motorola, Intel, IBM Make a Mainframe in a PC – The PC XT/370

    7 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  14. Russia is using Starlink to make its killer drones fly farther

    7 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  15. Streets of Minneapolis

    7 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  16. AI is how bosses wage war on "professions"

    7 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  17. Trump Has Renamed the Kennedy Center, but a Satirist Owns the URL

    7 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  18. US science after a year of Trump

    6 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  19. The Tyranny of Categorization. We must redefine our relationship with boundaries

    6 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  20. Corporate media is missing the moment. We need independent news

    6 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  21. You have 12 shots in life

    6 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  22. The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland

    6 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  23. World War 3 Map Simulator

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  24. Show HN: Debugging consent and conversion tracking with a headless scan

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  25. Apple acquires Israeli AI startup q.ai in second deal with PrimeSense founder

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  26. macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view

    6 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  27. The Analog Manifesto – For digital people who crave the analog era

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  28. Wine 11.0 Released

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  29. X Sues Music Publishers over "Weaponized" DMCA Takedown Conspiracy

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  30. Ariel OS – a Rust RTOS for IoT Microcontrollers

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  31. Bye bye, bear: beast living 'rent-free' under California home has been removed

    6 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  32. UK among 10 countries to build 100GW wind power grid in North Sea

    6 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  33. AGI Is Here

    6 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  34. Fresh Water at Sea in the Golden Age of Piracy

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  35. 'Blackout'–Putin's $12B Internet Shutdown Strikes Russia

    6 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  36. Tupolev Tu-4

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  37. How I build levels while the game is running

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  38. Microsoft is losing the AI race, Copilot stuck at 1% market share (on web)

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  39. iFixit: We Found the Worst Devices at CES 2026 [video]

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  40. Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling

    6 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  41. US seizes Russian-flagged tanker

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  42. Show HN: RepoReaper – AST-aware, JIT-loading code audit agent (Python/AsyncIO)

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  43. Writing mutexes from scratch in Go

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  44. A Mexican Couple in California Plans to Self-Deport–and Leave Their Kids Behind

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  45. Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw

    6 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  46. Is this the world's first solid-state battery?

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  47. List of Engineering Blunders

    6 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

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

    6 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  49. Fossgis 2026 – German language conference of FOSSGIS e.V. (OSGeo Local Chapter)

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  50. OpenAI buys tiny health records startup Torch for, reportedly, $100M

    6 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  51. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney's Full Speech at Davos

    6 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  52. US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear

    6 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  53. Legacy of the Necromancer (Amiga and PC DOS)

    6 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  54. Show HN: An SVG Inspection Tool

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  55. OpenAI to Test Targeted Ads in ChatGPT

    6 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  56. I Designed a Custom Protocol for My App

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  57. AMD Ryzen AI Halo for AI Developers

    6 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  58. Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours: An Introduction to Haskell Through Example [pdf] (2007)

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  59. Large Feeds and RFC 5005

    6 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  60. Codeless: From Idea to Software

    6 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  61. Online Museum and Technical History of the Hewlett-Packard Company

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  62. How we made the Lego SMART Play system

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  63. Language Server Protocol server for System/360 COBOL F (1968) and PL/I F (1965)

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  64. After 40 years, Nintendo's Kensuke Tanabe is retiring

    6 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  65. Potentially Critical RCE Vulnerability in OpenSSL

    6 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  66. Janantos/brow6el: Minimalistic graphical terminal web browser using sixels

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  67. Chinese Fishing Boats Form Sea Barriers

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  68. Are the YouTube channel Courts and Crimes's shorts AI-generated deep fakes?

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  69. Why Walmart still doesn't support Apple Pay

    6 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  70. Managing Unreliable Compilers

    6 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  71. GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Front end, Zen 6, C++20

    6 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  72. iFixit names worst products of CES 2026 by handing out "Worst in Show" awards

    6 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  73. Judge orders Anna's Archive to delete data scraped from WorldCat

    6 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  74. Design systems and shareable browser support

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  75. Memory-safety exploits account for 70 percent of vulnerabilities

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  76. ChatGPT ads are coming, a bellwether for free AI services

    6 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  77. PFAS and PCBs associated with increased odds of multiple sclerosis

    6 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  78. Show HN: The Thiele Machine – Coq-Verified Computational Model Beyond Turing

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  79. Show HN: Feature detection exploration in Lidar DEMs via differential decomp

    6 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  80. 'ICE Is Going Too Far': OpenAI's Altman Weighs in on Minnesota

    6 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  81. We Are the Boomers Now

    6 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  82. Show HN: Is this the best epoch converter?

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  83. Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical"

    6 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  84. Linus Torvalds gets candid About Windows, workflows, and AI

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  85. Ask HN: What to teach my kid if AI does math and CS?

    6 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  86. Nvidia releases 8B model with learned 8x KV cache compression

    6 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  87. EU readies €93B tariffs in retaliation for Trump's Greenland threat

    6 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  88. Dynamic pricing: would you pay more for drinks in a pub at peak times?

    6 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  89. More Americans are living alone than ever before

    6 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  90. Elon Musk's A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage

    6 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  91. Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

    6 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  92. Datadog Monitors Are Down

    6 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  93. Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work as Placebo

    6 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  94. Complex life on planets orbiting the galaxy's most common stars may be unlikely

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  95. Mayor Mamdani Announces Complete Redesign on McGuinness Boulevard

    6 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  96. Bessent tells banks deregulation makes up for 10% rate cap

    6 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  97. Telegram recovery model allows permanent lockout after phishing

    6 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  98. Cancer might protect against Alzheimer's – this protein helps explain why

    6 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  99. Courtney Love Does the Math (2000)

    6 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  100. NIST is rethinking its role in analyzing software vulnerabilities

    6 points • comment • jan 24, 2026