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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. School is worse for kids than social media

    4 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  2. Trump's acting cybersecurity chief uploaded sensitive government docs to ChatGPT

    4 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  3. Welcome to Gas Town

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  4. Silent Worker Teaching Method – AI alignment without modifying weights

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  5. Show HN: Show HN: I built a fail-closed watchdog for ESP32/Arduino in C++

    4 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  6. Infiltrated: How the USA buys Greenland's elite [video]

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  7. The Cost of AI Art

    4 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  8. "Digital cash" without privacy is meaningless (2025)

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  9. RISC-V History

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  10. A rationalist's guide to manifestation. Or, how to live a magical life

    4 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  11. US Debt Monitor Live

    4 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  12. Becoming a Whorelord: The Overly Analytical Guide to Escorting (2021)

    4 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  13. Science fiction warned AI could end humanity. We may soon learn if it's possible

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  14. Who's who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter

    4 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  15. Korea's AI law requires watermarks on generated content

    4 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  16. A Visual Roadmap of C#

    4 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  17. First LLM Coded Redis PR Opened by Antirez

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  18. College grad unemployment isn't about AI

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  19. Ongoing Viral SendGrid Phishing Attack

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  20. Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a 'battle for the soul' of the internet

    4 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  21. America's affordability crisis is (mostly) a mirage

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  22. Meth: We're on It

    4 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  23. "Don't worry. Boys are hard to find." Trump/Epstein and... Criminal Enterprises

    4 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  24. Antarctic penguins have shifted their breeding season

    4 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  25. NHK's This Is Hi-Vision (1987 Analog HDTV) [video]

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  26. F1 2026 – 3D Map: All the Tracks and Teams. Tons of Stats

    4 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  27. Doom on a Fursuit [video]

    4 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  28. Melania PG, Now Playing, 1h 44M, Documentary

    4 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  29. Ask HN: Why can't I apply custom fonts to HN?

    4 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  30. scx_horoscope – Astrological CPU Scheduler

    4 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  31. United States science after a year of Trump

    4 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  32. Hmap –- Dictionary Library in C

    4 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  33. Tesla patents 'clever math trick' for HW3, but nothing points to promised FSD

    4 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  34. The Podcaster Poking at France's Biggest Secrets

    4 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  35. Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans

    4 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  36. Kreuzberg: Extract text and metadata from a wide range of file formats

    4 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  37. Computer vision papers reimplemented with minimal PyTorch code

    4 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  38. Zillow Removed Climate Risk Scores Under Pressure from Real Estate Agents

    4 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  39. Scala 3.8 Released

    4 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  40. Scientists uncover why statins cause muscle pain

    4 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  41. The first commercial space stations will start orbiting Earth in 2026

    4 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  42. Diplomacy by WhatsApp

    4 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  43. United States Territorial Acquisitions

    4 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  44. Brandon Sanderson just sold his Cosmere universe to Apple TV

    4 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  45. What Drives Success in Physical Planning with JEPA World Models?

    4 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  46. AMD Ryzen chief teases return of older Zen 3 chips to fight soaring RAM prices

    4 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  47. Use of PQC in SMTP STARTTLS

    4 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  48. California probes TikTok over claims it censors anti-Trump content

    4 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  49. Superiority of flu vaccines that generate "mucosal immunity"

    4 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  50. X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem

    4 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  51. Love it or hate it, Windows 11 has reached 1B users faster than 10

    4 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  52. Python Basics Explained with Real-World Examples

    4 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  53. Dismantling dark patterns using TDD via discovery and injunctions

    4 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  54. Jon Skeet Facts

    4 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  55. Cinderella Stamp

    4 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  56. Laser Eye Surgery

    4 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  57. MX Linux 25.1 brings back switchable init systems

    4 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  58. Surely [the crash of the US economy] has to be soon

    4 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  59. Asus Confirms It Won't Launch Phones in 2026, May Leave Android Altogether

    4 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  60. ast-grep: A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting

    4 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  61. Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline

    4 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  62. Ask HN: What 'AI feature' created negative ROI in production?

    4 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  63. ACP Agent Registry in JetBrains IDEs

    4 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  64. Packaging Perl and Shell for NixOS Deployment

    4 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  65. Ask HN: How would you design for this scale today?

    4 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  66. The Intent Layer: Make agents perform like your best engineers

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  67. NASA delays Artemis moonshot with astronauts due to extreme cold in Florida

    4 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  68. China executes 11 members of Myanmar-based group in crackdown on scam operations

    4 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  69. A Socialist Now Runs New York. Here's What History Predicts

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  70. Meta Plans to Cut Around 10% of Employees in Reality Labs Business

    4 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  71. Culture warriors cancel new U of A law dean before she started

    4 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  72. The Monty Hall Problem, a side-by-side simulation

    4 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  73. Show HN: An all-in-one image crop/split/collage tool (no uploads, no watermark)

    4 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  74. Qwen3-ASR Technical Report

    4 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  75. When AI Becomes a System of Record: Why Evidence Will Define Liability

    4 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  76. Building an RL environment to train agents for production debugging

    4 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  77. Deterministic Governance: mechanical exclusion / bit-identical

    4 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  78. Wyoming Introduces First-Ever Foreign Censorship Shield Bill

    4 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  79. SWE-gen: Scaling SWE-bench task generation

    4 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  80. Show HN: Underpriced AI – Snap a photo, get instant resale value with AI

    4 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  81. Italy Fines Cloudflare for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

    4 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  82. Partial evaluation and automatic program generation. (book, 1993)

    4 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  83. LLVM Adopts "Human in the Loop" Policy for AI/Tool-Assisted Contributions

    4 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  84. The most fascinating monitors at CES 2026

    4 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  85. Determinate Secure Packages: Nixpkgs with SBOMs, FIPS, and SLA'd CVE Patching

    4 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  86. Pope Leo's latest AI warning: 'overly affectionate' chatbots

    4 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  87. Greenland Crisis

    4 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  88. Let the Chinese Cars In

    4 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  89. AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops

    4 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  90. Dozens of CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr.

    4 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  91. Emergent Gravity Is Quantum Entanglement

    4 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  92. Some C habits I employ for the modern day

    4 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  93. Ask HN: Who's using DuckDB in production?

    4 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  94. Renault to team up with French defence group to make drones for Ukraine

    4 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  95. The $160k Mechanic Job That Ford Can't Fill

    4 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  96. Tesla's unsupervised robotaxis vanish after earnings announcement

    4 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  97. Show HN: Sidestream – an AI chat app with a side of insight

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  98. A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About Glyphosate and Weedkiller Roundup

    4 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  99. 1931 Ford Model a Hot Rod Bridges Generations with a Civic Type R Engine

    4 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  100. iFixit The Worst Devices of CES 2026 [video]

    4 points • comment • jan 12, 2026