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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Ask HN: What is your opinion on non-mainstream mobile OS options (e.g. /e/OS)?

    5 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  2. Macron wants to ban under-15s from social media from September 2026

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  3. ADSL Works over Wet String

    5 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  4. PTP Is the New NTP: How Data Centers Achieve Real-Time Precision

    5 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  5. Libreboot 26.01 "Magnanimous Max" released

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  6. Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies

    5 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  7. Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer

    5 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  8. Beijing tells Chinese firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software

    5 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  9. OpenAI launches cheaper ChatGPT subscription, says ads are coming next

    5 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  10. Show HN: stream-unzip – Python function to unZIP on the fly

    5 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  11. Rethinking Quran Rendering for the Digital Age

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  12. Show HN: SimpleSVGs – Free Online SVG Optimizer Multiple SVG Files at Once

    5 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  13. I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote

    5 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  14. Get-Shit-Done

    5 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  15. Vessel searching for MH370 moving at low speed in a specific area

    5 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  16. Enough of the 'Hey you ' faux-friend nonsense. You're a business, not my mate

    5 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  17. Show HN: Vibe scrape with AI Web Agents, prompt => get data [video]

    5 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  18. Australia Passes New Hate Speech Law, Raising Free Speech Fears

    5 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  19. Ask HN: Thinking about memory for AI coding agents

    5 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  20. BitChat.land – Global Bitchat relay overview

    5 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  21. Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete

    5 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  22. Gas Town is a glimpse into the future

    5 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  23. Ask HN: Any real prompt injections in the wild?

    5 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  24. Bitcoin mining firm Canaan pilot uses waste heat from mining to grow tomatoes

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  25. The Watcher of Westfield, New Jersey

    5 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  26. Show HN: An opinionated fork of micro, built for vibe coders who enjoy code

    5 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  27. Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  28. Non-Photo Blue

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  29. How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  30. Show HN: RealXV6 – a faithful Unix V6 kernel port to 8086 real mode

    5 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  31. You Can't Block Space Internet

    5 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  32. D/a and a/D – Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery Xiph.org)

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  33. Vaultwarden – Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server, formerly bitwarden_rs

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  34. 2025 Letter

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  35. Ask HN: How many local logins do you have on your computer?

    5 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  36. I tested every Japanese app that came out in the last 2 years–these are the best

    5 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  37. For Russia, Greenland offers an 'ideal solution' to its Ukraine problemX

    5 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  38. Panda Diplomacy

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  39. African nations now send more money to China than they receive in new loans

    5 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  40. One-Click Clawdbot/Moltbot on Security-Hardened DigitalOcean Droplets

    5 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  41. Introduction to Algorithms and Machine Learning from Sorting to Strategic Agents

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  42. The Constitution Was a Coup

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  43. Beyond Benchmaxxing: Why the Future of AI Is Inference-Time Search

    5 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  44. Ask HN: Does PPP (Parity Pricing) work for one-time digital products?

    5 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  45. A $2,500 full body scan said he was healthy. Then he had a catastrophic stroke

    5 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  46. Show HN: VectorDBZ, a desktop GUI for vector databases

    5 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  47. Now you can star Wallabag entries from the comfort of your Kobo e-reader

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  48. Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  49. BlankCal: A clean, free tool to generate printable blank calendars

    5 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  50. NameCheap revoked domain from project because they don't like their politics

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  51. OpenAI's Sora now sits at #71 in the US App Store and #108 on Play Store

    5 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  52. Fear and Loathing of the English Passive (2010)

    5 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  53. UK's Ofcom investigating X after outcry over sexualised AI images

    5 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  54. The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World

    5 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  55. Russia's Oil Revenue, the Lifeblood of Its War Machine, Is Plummeting

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  56. Don't Forget the WAL: How I Lost SQLite Data in Podman Containers

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  57. Monster Neutrino Could Be a Messenger of Ancient Black Holes

    5 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  58. Porting MiniJinja to Go with an Agent

    5 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  59. Show HN: AI video generator that outputs React instead of video files

    5 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  60. Apple Changes How You Order a Mac

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  61. Stephen Miller Asserts U.S. Has Right to Take Greenland

    5 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  62. The Shakers' Utopian World Sees a Surge of Modern Interest

    5 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  63. China tests hypergravity centrifuge that compresses time and space

    5 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  64. NYT investigation on an ice raid [video]

    5 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  65. DOJ sues California cities over natural gas bans

    5 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  66. I'm building a 30k‑line V12 codebase solo with a "team" of 4 AIs

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  67. iPad Raspberry Pi Zero Sidecar

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  68. OpenAI Would Like You to Share Your Health Data with ChatGPT

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  69. Opsec Guide BTS

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  70. Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth

    5 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  71. Infant needs CPR after feds unleash flash-bangs on family van with 6 kids inside

    5 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  72. Court orders Samsung to stop "spying" on Texans through its TVs

    5 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  73. The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland

    5 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  74. GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  75. Maine company in the spotlight after Maduro apparently wore one of their hoodies

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  76. Five Ways People Are Using Claude Code

    5 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  77. Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?

    5 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  78. Show HN: A kids' math app without dark patterns

    5 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  79. Relax, Microplastics Aren't Killing You

    5 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  80. Israel tells Doctors Without Borders to end its work in Gaza

    5 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  81. An interactive particle system driven by your hand movements

    5 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  82. Show HN: Roleplay-first chat UI for an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API

    5 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  83. Show HN: Should I kill my side project?

    5 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  84. 'It's not too late to fix it'

    5 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  85. Linux Addressing Out-of-Memory Killer Inaccuracy on Large Core Count Systems

    5 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  86. Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding

    5 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  87. ICE flew 2-year-old to Texas despite court order to release her from custody

    5 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  88. Trump says US has captured Venezuela's President Maduro

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  89. It's a Weird Time to Be a Democrat in Silicon Valley

    5 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  90. A Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism – Paulina Borsook Was Right

    5 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  91. Had LLM/AI build an unbiased quiz: Where in the World Should I Live?

    5 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  92. Windows 2000 still earning its keep running a rail ticket machine in Portugal

    5 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  93. The New Moore's Law: Why Optical Computing Could Redefine Scaling for AI

    5 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  94. Vibe coding is a hobby. Let me explain

    5 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  95. Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after workers vote to unionize

    5 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  96. A practical guide to converting YAML to JSON safely (with Kubernetes examples)

    5 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  97. Ask HN: What are some good unintuitive statistics problems?

    5 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  98. Clifm 1.27 Is Out

    5 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  99. Why I'm launching a feminist video games website in 2026

    5 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  100. How Animals Build a Sense of Direction

    5 points • comment • jan 21, 2026