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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Two Weeks Until Tapeout

    188 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  2. I changed my personality in six weeks

    188 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  3. AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release

    188 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  4. Consent-O-Matic

    187 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  5. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)

    187 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  6. Passing of Joe Mancuso

    187 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  7. High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it

    187 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  8. Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49

    187 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  9. A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease

    187 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  10. Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash

    186 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  11. How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)

    186 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  12. Mozilla's open source AI strategy

    186 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  13. Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal

    185 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  14. Linux kernel security work

    185 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  15. How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders

    185 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  16. The longest Greek word

    185 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  17. Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System

    185 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  18. I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck

    185 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  19. Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle

    184 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  20. Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine

    184 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  21. LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet

    184 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  22. Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK

    184 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  23. Sins of the Children

    184 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  24. Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection

    183 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  25. How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart

    183 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  26. Text Is King

    183 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  27. Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)

    183 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  28. Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

    182 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  29. 2025 was the third hottest year on record

    182 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  30. Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

    182 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  31. The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?

    182 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  32. I'd tell you a UDP joke…

    182 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  33. Replacing Protobuf with Rust

    181 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  34. Video Game Websites in the early 00s

    181 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  35. CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem

    181 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  36. Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop

    181 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  37. Iran shuts down Starlink internet for first time

    181 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  38. Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite

    181 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  39. Richard Feynman Side Hustles

    180 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  40. Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked

    180 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  41. I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool

    179 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  42. SmartOS

    179 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  43. What is Plan 9?

    179 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  44. I was right about ATProto key management

    179 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  45. Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro

    178 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  46. Scaling long-running autonomous coding

    178 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  47. I stopped following the news

    178 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  48. Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds

    178 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  49. I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds

    178 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  50. Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface

    177 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  51. JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

    177 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  52. Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?

    177 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  53. Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files

    177 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  54. Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?

    177 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  55. Go.sum is not a lockfile

    177 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  56. Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up

    177 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  57. Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics

    177 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  58. Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021)

    177 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  59. Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone

    177 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  60. The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

    176 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  61. There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers

    176 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  62. An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

    176 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  63. IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]

    176 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  64. “Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow

    176 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  65. The Kimwolf botnet is stalking your local network

    176 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  66. Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines

    175 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  67. Play Aardwolf MUD

    175 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  68. From Nevada to Kansas by Glider

    175 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  69. Maze Algorithms (2017)

    174 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  70. Xous Operating System

    174 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  71. Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed

    174 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  72. Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking

    174 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  73. Convert potentially dangerous PDFs to safe PDFs

    174 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  74. Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss

    173 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  75. Claude Code CLI was broken

    173 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  76. Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain

    173 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  77. KDE onboarding is good now

    173 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  78. Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k

    172 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  79. YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers

    172 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  80. VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

    170 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  81. Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

    170 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  82. Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

    169 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  83. Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals

    169 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  84. Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle

    169 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  85. Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

    168 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  86. You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML

    168 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  87. The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime

    168 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  88. NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston

    168 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  89. Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law

    168 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  90. Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza

    167 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  91. Many hells of WebDAV

    167 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  92. ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss

    167 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  93. FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers

    167 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  94. Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024)

    167 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  95. US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

    167 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  96. Snow Simulation Toy

    167 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  97. Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

    167 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  98. Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side

    166 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  99. Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year

    166 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  100. Vector graphics on GPU

    166 points • comment • jan 03, 2026