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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Ask HN: What software / applications can you now build thanks to AI

    4 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  2. UW ttyp0 Monospace Bitmap Fonts (v2.1)

    4 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  3. The Education of the Broligarchy

    4 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  4. 2 Shot by federal agents in Portland, police say

    4 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  5. Best Practices for AI-Assisted Coding with Claude Code and Building Claude.md

    4 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  6. Public Domain Day 2026

    4 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  7. US Supreme Court to decide if the pesticide Roundup is shielded from lawsuits

    4 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  8. From AI agent prototype to product: Lessons from building AWS DevOps Agent

    4 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  9. ShinyHunters claims Okta customer breaches, leaks data belonging to 3 orgs

    4 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  10. Inside the women's prison where violent male inmates have their way

    4 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  11. When it comes to vaccine schedules, the U.S. is now the outlier

    4 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  12. The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. – Bastani and Doctorow [video]

    4 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  13. Waze built the largest crowdsourced surveillance system

    4 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  14. NASA Supercomputer Probes Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars

    4 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  15. Tell HN: The FAA is pushing to decimate small flight schools

    4 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  16. Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence

    4 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  17. Baby Is Web Scale

    4 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  18. Ask HN: Do B2B deals stall more from "org blindness" than product fit?

    4 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  19. There Is No Green Transition, and This Book Explains Why

    3 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  20. Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video

    3 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  21. Software Is Fine

    3 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  22. The Homepage of Ron Goodwin

    3 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  23. Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

    3 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  24. Show HN: Typing Tennis

    3 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  25. Edbrowse: A command-line editor and web browser

    3 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  26. Ask HN: What should I write about next? (CS student learning by writing)

    3 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  27. Reasons I did 301,432 flashcard reviews in 2025

    3 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  28. China: Paralyzed man builds a smart farming startup using 1 finger and 1 toe

    3 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  29. China's power grid investments to surge to record $574B in 2026-2030

    3 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  30. Wayland – Accessibility Input Protocol

    3 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  31. Is a RAM-only PWA "Secure Camera" safe for journalists?

    3 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  32. CorsProxy

    3 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  33. Claude planned the latest NASA Mars Rover drive

    3 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  34. Semiconductor Fabs III: Ion Implantation

    3 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  35. Tried Qwen3-TTS Open source to clone my voice and created a video

    3 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  36. Forza's Game Studio Rejects No-AI Clause, French VA Localization Canceled

    3 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  37. A Brief History of Ralph

    3 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  38. Covid's long shadow looms over a new generation of college students

    3 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  39. Japan's 40-year bond yield hits 4% record on fiscal jitters

    3 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  40. BBC 1 sound received in Texas, November 1981 [video]

    3 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  41. Show HN: MaduroTrials – Tracking the SDNY indictments and court documents

    3 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  42. Brazil Wind and Solar Power Surpass One-Third of National Electricity

    3 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  43. GTA 6's Dynamic Economy Will Change Open‑World Games Forever

    3 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  44. Ask HN: Are diffs still useful for AI-assisted code changes?

    3 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  45. Atlas Obscura Turns First Annual Profit in 16-Year History

    3 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  46. Engineering as Humanity's Highest Achievement

    3 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  47. What If We Took Message-Passing Seriously?

    3 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  48. First ever version of Unix written in C is running again

    3 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  49. Zig programming language 0.6.0 release notes

    3 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  50. Some farmers report as many as 70 tick encounters over a 6-month period

    3 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  51. Mother identifies woman shot and killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis

    3 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  52. Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea

    3 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  53. Show HN: I Will Do Whatever to Get Primeagen to My Hackathon Stream

    3 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  54. US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky had cocktail of drugs in system at death

    3 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  55. Twenty-Fifth Amendment

    3 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  56. New map reveals landscape beneath Antarctica in unprecedented detail

    3 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  57. Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment – PubMed

    3 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  58. The Discoveries of Continuations [pdf]

    3 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  59. "Mr. Burns" as a Software Engineer

    3 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  60. Let's Buy California from Trump – Denmark's Next Big Adventure

    3 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  61. Best of CES 2026: Innovating amidst the RAM and storage apocalypse

    3 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  62. Minneapolis shooting: AG Pam Bondi gives Gov. Walz conditions for ICE to leave

    3 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  63. Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk's Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

    3 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  64. Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

    3 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  65. Ask HN: How do you keep up with tech news or any news without doomscrolling?

    3 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  66. The Venezuelan change: Why do people keep getting him wrong on foreign policy?

    3 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  67. Implementing a (Vibed) LLM Coding Agent in Prolog

    3 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  68. EFF calls Daybreak a copyright bully over its EverQuest emulator lawsuit

    3 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  69. In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters

    3 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  70. NASA acknowledges record heat but avoids referencing climate change

    3 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  71. Ask HN: Weekend Social: Top two programming languages and what they can borrow?

    3 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  72. US Army tests 20,000W vehicle-mounted laser systems for drone defense

    3 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  73. Cultured meat protein has higher bioactive peptides than traditional proteins

    3 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  74. ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you

    3 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  75. Language Modeling Part 4: LSTMs

    3 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  76. Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?

    3 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  77. Brazil's Bolsonaro finds novel way to reduce 27-year sentence: reading books

    3 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  78. Double Commander 1.2

    3 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  79. America's 'Death Line' Goes Viral in China

    3 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  80. Vendor Locked CPUs, Restricting and Securing Hardware

    3 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  81. Trump, and Most Americans, Do Not Understand the Monroe Doctrine

    3 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  82. Whistleblower leaks personal details of thousands of Border Patrol/ICE Agents

    3 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  83. Ice cream is one of the healthiest foods in existence

    3 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  84. Orca: A New Architecture for Efficient AGI Through Parent-Teacher Learning

    3 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  85. Intricacies of Helix Nebula Revealed with NASA's Webb

    3 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  86. Gemini CLI: Code and Create with an Open-Source Agent

    3 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  87. Minneapolis software engineers mistaken for ICE agents

    3 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  88. Eagle Mode: a zoomable user interface

    3 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  89. Show HN: Nhx – Node.js Hybrid eXecutor (a uvx inspired tool)

    3 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  90. They Want You to "Quit Demonstrating"

    3 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  91. 'Data is control': a year investigating the Israeli military's ties to big tech

    3 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  92. How I made the smallest PlayStation – PS1 Redesign Series Chapter 1

    3 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  93. Firefox 147.0

    3 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  94. The 30th anniversary of the first C++ compiler: let's find the bugs in it

    3 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  95. The Lie That Elite Colleges, and a Nation, Wanted to Believe

    3 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  96. T2 SDE: Customizable build system for creating Linux distributions from source

    3 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  97. Wegmans grocery store uses biometric surveillance on shoppers

    3 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  98. Ask HN: Rust and AI builders interested in local-first, multi-agent systems?

    3 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  99. Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

    3 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  100. Ask HN: How do you minimize dependence on US-based infrastructure?

    3 points • comment • jan 07, 2026