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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills

    219 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  2. When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

    219 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  3. Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

    219 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  4. Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

    218 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  5. Light Mode InFFFFFFlation

    218 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  6. Games Workshop bans staff from using AI

    217 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  7. Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well

    217 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  8. Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

    217 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  9. Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)

    217 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  10. The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)

    217 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  11. ClickHouse acquires Langfuse

    217 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  12. Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

    216 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  13. Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

    216 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  14. Google removes AI health summaries

    215 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  15. The age of Pump and Dump software

    215 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  16. ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods

    215 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  17. Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue

    215 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  18. Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals

    215 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  19. Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds

    215 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  20. San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz

    215 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  21. CPython Internals Explained

    214 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  22. China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron

    213 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  23. Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

    213 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  24. Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users

    213 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  25. Some C habits I employ for the modern day

    212 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  26. The Q, K, V Matrices

    212 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  27. Strange.website

    212 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  28. Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

    212 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  29. Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

    212 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  30. Show HN: Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs

    211 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  31. San Francisco Graffiti

    210 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  32. Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending

    210 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  33. ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree

    210 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  34. Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

    210 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  35. US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private

    210 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  36. A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

    209 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  37. The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

    209 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  38. Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says

    209 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  39. Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday

    209 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  40. Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study

    209 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  41. LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra

    209 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  42. The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

    208 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  43. The Gentle Seduction (1989)

    208 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  44. I Like GitLab

    208 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  45. FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems

    208 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  46. Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s

    207 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  47. Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C

    207 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  48. EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators

    207 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  49. Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans

    207 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  50. Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails

    207 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  51. Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?

    206 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  52. Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

    205 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  53. 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)

    205 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  54. SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack

    205 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  55. SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

    205 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  56. Backseat Software

    205 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  57. Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in

    204 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  58. Gas Town Decoded

    204 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  59. Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

    204 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  60. My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed

    203 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  61. State of the Fin 2026-01-06

    202 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  62. Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration

    202 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  63. Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

    202 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  64. Show HN: Rails UI

    201 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  65. Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification

    201 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  66. Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)

    201 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  67. ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people

    201 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  68. Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

    199 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  69. Sampling at negative temperature

    199 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  70. NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens

    199 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  71. How Samba Was Written (2003)

    198 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  72. People who know the formula for WD-40

    198 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  73. Are two heads better than one?

    198 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  74. Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

    197 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  75. Data is the only moat

    197 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  76. Indifference is a power

    197 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  77. TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source

    196 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  78. Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days

    196 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  79. After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news

    196 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  80. Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy

    196 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  81. GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button

    196 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  82. We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable

    195 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  83. The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns

    194 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  84. Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig

    193 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  85. CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

    192 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  86. India and EU announce landmark trade deal

    192 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  87. 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop

    192 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  88. The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones

    192 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  89. Children and Helical Time

    192 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  90. TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin

    192 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  91. The Delete Act

    192 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  92. Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying

    192 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  93. JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine

    191 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  94. Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User

    191 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  95. Uncrossy

    190 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  96. The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]

    190 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  97. Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium

    190 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  98. Moiré Explorer

    190 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  99. IP Addresses Through 2025

    189 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  100. Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”

    188 points • comment • jan 29, 2026