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Hacker News (Jan 2026)

  1. Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?

    166 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  2. 3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup

    165 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  3. Provide agents with automated feedback

    165 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  4. DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online

    165 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  5. Corroded: Illegal Rust

    165 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  6. Agentic Patterns

    164 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  7. Servo 2025 Stats

    164 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  8. Decorative Cryptography

    164 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  9. OLED, Not for Me

    163 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  10. Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder

    163 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  11. Statement from Federal Reserve Chair

    162 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  12. CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool

    162 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  13. ASCII-Driven Development

    162 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  14. Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

    162 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  15. Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

    162 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  16. Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

    161 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  17. Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973

    161 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  18. Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn

    160 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  19. Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users

    160 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  20. Yes, It's Fascism

    160 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  21. Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation

    160 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  22. White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"

    159 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  23. Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature

    159 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  24. Sun Position Calculator

    159 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  25. My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it

    159 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  26. Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One

    159 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  27. Are arrays functions?

    159 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  28. Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator

    159 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  29. Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic

    159 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  30. Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever

    159 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  31. Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them

    158 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  32. Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

    158 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  33. Design and Implementation of Sprites

    158 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  34. The lost art of XML

    158 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  35. FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]

    158 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  36. Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other

    158 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  37. Recursive Language Models

    157 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  38. Elasticsearch was never a database

    157 points • comment • jan 11, 2026

  39. TSMC Risk

    157 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  40. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

    157 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  41. Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is

    157 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  42. Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

    156 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  43. Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]

    156 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  44. Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

    156 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  45. From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown

    156 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  46. Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU

    156 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  47. How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

    155 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  48. The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]

    154 points • comment • jan 09, 2026

  49. Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011

    154 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  50. I overengineered a spinning top [video]

    154 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  51. Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google

    154 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  52. Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console

    153 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  53. The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly

    153 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  54. A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev

    153 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  55. Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions

    153 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  56. The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)

    153 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  57. Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params)

    153 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  58. Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)

    153 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  59. When Every Network is 192.168.1.x

    152 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  60. Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points

    152 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  61. Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way

    152 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  62. Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

    152 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  63. A small collection of text-only websites

    152 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  64. December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more

    152 points • comment • jan 24, 2026

  65. Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

    152 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  66. Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)

    151 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  67. Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks

    151 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  68. Code is cheap now, but software isn't

    151 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  69. Letting Claude play text adventures

    151 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  70. The Code-Only Agent

    151 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  71. Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts

    151 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  72. Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly

    150 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  73. Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds

    150 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  74. Ode to the AA Battery

    150 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  75. Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage

    150 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  76. Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

    150 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  77. OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available

    150 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  78. My Gripes with Prolog

    149 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  79. Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

    149 points • comment • jan 18, 2026

  80. Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy

    149 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  81. Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI"

    149 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  82. Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby

    149 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  83. So, you want to chunk really fast?

    149 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  84. Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse

    149 points • comment • jan 12, 2026

  85. TÜV Report 2026: Tesla Model Y has the worst reliability of all 2022–2023 cars

    149 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  86. F-16 Falcon Strike

    149 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  87. Extremophile molds are invading art museums

    148 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  88. CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider

    148 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  89. Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC

    148 points • comment • jan 17, 2026

  90. Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects

    148 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  91. Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water

    148 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  92. Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)

    148 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  93. On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]

    148 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  94. Flow5 released to open source

    147 points • comment • jan 01, 2026

  95. Cigarette smoke effect using shaders

    147 points • comment • jan 05, 2026

  96. Take One Small Step

    146 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  97. Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

    146 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  98. AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds

    146 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  99. FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)

    146 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  100. The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75

    145 points • comment • jan 29, 2026