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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

    253 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  2. The Unix Pipe Card Game

    252 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  3. Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems

    252 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  4. SVG Path Editor

    252 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  5. Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt

    250 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  6. Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU

    250 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  7. Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)

    250 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  8. Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month

    249 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  9. Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering

    249 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  10. Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher

    249 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  11. The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable

    248 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  12. Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density

    248 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  13. The future of software engineering is SRE

    247 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  14. Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties

    247 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  15. Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish

    247 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  16. MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

    246 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  17. Sega co-founder David Rosen has died

    246 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  18. The challenges of soft delete

    246 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  19. Jank Lang Hit Alpha

    246 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  20. Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs

    246 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  21. The Adolescence of Technology

    245 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  22. Some notes on starting to use Django

    245 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  23. Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow

    243 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  24. C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories

    243 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  25. Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

    243 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  26. The Influentists: AI hype without proof

    243 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  27. AI2: Open Coding Agents

    243 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  28. Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint

    243 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  29. Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

    242 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  30. How to make a damn website (2024)

    241 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  31. AI code and software craft

    241 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  32. The Tulip Creative Computer

    240 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  33. Lights and Shadows (2020)

    240 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  34. Make.ts

    239 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  35. JPEG XL Test Page

    238 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  36. The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists

    238 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  37. Parametric CAD in Rust

    238 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  38. Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps

    238 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  39. Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

    238 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  40. LMArena is a cancer on AI

    237 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  41. Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

    237 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  42. Have Taken Up Farming

    237 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  43. A Lament for Aperture

    237 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  44. I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor

    237 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  45. Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts

    237 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  46. Time Station Emulator

    237 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  47. Zotero 8

    236 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  48. Palantir has no place in UK public services

    236 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  49. My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)

    236 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  50. 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet

    235 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  51. Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)

    235 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  52. Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

    235 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  53. Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

    235 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  54. The tech monoculture is finally breaking

    235 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  55. What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025

    234 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  56. Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers

    234 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  57. Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit

    234 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  58. Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device

    233 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  59. Crafting Interpreters

    233 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  60. Giving university exams in the age of chatbots

    233 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  61. LM Studio 0.4

    233 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  62. BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech

    233 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  63. Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials

    233 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  64. Microsoft mishandling example.com

    233 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  65. Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time (2024)

    232 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  66. Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105

    232 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  67. Poison Fountain

    231 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  68. Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

    231 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  69. Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux

    231 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  70. Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

    230 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  71. Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?

    230 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  72. Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books

    230 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  73. Banned C++ features in Chromium

    230 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  74. Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

    230 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  75. Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

    229 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  76. Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace

    229 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  77. Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model

    229 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  78. Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

    229 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  79. Quake Brutalist Jam III

    229 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  80. How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI

    229 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  81. The Olivetti Company

    228 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  82. The Concise TypeScript Book

    228 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  83. First impressions of Claude Cowork

    228 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  84. Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup

    228 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  85. Assorted less(1) tips

    228 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  86. The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing

    228 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  87. Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores

    226 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  88. Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)

    226 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  89. Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

    226 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  90. Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you

    226 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  91. The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets

    226 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  92. The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen

    225 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  93. How AI Impacts Skill Formation

    224 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  94. How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

    223 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  95. Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

    223 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  96. FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

    221 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  97. CSS Optical Illusions

    221 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  98. We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

    220 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  99. Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?

    220 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  100. Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills

    219 points • comment • jan 18, 2026