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Hacker News (2026)
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LMArena is a cancer on AI
237 points • comment • jan 07, 2026
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A Lament for Aperture
237 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
237 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?
237 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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Time Station Emulator
237 points • comment • jan 27, 2026
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Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis
237 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
237 points • comment • feb 10, 2026
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I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor
237 points • comment • jan 26, 2026
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Have Taken Up Farming
237 points • comment • jan 15, 2026
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My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)
236 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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Zotero 8
236 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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Palantir has no place in UK public services
236 points • comment • jan 25, 2026
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Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died
235 points • comment • feb 15, 2026
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OpenAI should build Slack
235 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)
235 points • comment • jan 02, 2026
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The tech monoculture is finally breaking
235 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet
235 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)
235 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
235 points • comment • jan 31, 2026
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What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025
234 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan
234 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit
234 points • comment • jan 30, 2026
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Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models
234 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers
234 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials
233 points • comment • jan 25, 2026
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Microsoft mishandling example.com
233 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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Crafting Interpreters
233 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech
233 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device
233 points • comment • jan 31, 2026
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Giving university exams in the age of chatbots
233 points • comment • jan 20, 2026
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LM Studio 0.4
233 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time (2024)
232 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105
232 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux
231 points • comment • jan 12, 2026
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Poison Fountain
231 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
231 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books
230 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Banned C++ features in Chromium
230 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
230 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?
230 points • comment • jan 05, 2026
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Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
230 points • comment • jan 15, 2026
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Quake Brutalist Jam III
229 points • comment • jan 04, 2026
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How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI
229 points • comment • jan 07, 2026
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Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
229 points • comment • jan 27, 2026
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Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities
229 points • comment • jan 23, 2026
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Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace
229 points • comment • jan 20, 2026
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Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
229 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
229 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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Assorted less(1) tips
228 points • comment • jan 02, 2026
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The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing
228 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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The Olivetti Company
228 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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The Concise TypeScript Book
228 points • comment • jan 11, 2026
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Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup
228 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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First impressions of Claude Cowork
228 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
226 points • comment • jan 10, 2026
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Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages
226 points • comment • jan 21, 2026
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The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
226 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
226 points • comment • jan 12, 2026
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Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL
226 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores
226 points • comment • jan 27, 2026
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The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen
225 points • comment • jan 26, 2026
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Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
225 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting
225 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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How AI Impacts Skill Formation
224 points • comment • jan 30, 2026
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A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck
224 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital
223 points • comment • jan 28, 2026
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Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
223 points • comment • jan 19, 2026
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Open source is not about you (2018)
222 points • comment • feb 13, 2026
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Where did all the starships go?
222 points • comment • feb 03, 2026
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FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence
221 points • comment • jan 16, 2026
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Eight more months of agents
221 points • comment • feb 08, 2026
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Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT
221 points • comment • feb 09, 2026
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TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
221 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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CSS Optical Illusions
221 points • comment • jan 22, 2026
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We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
220 points • comment • jan 31, 2026
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Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?
220 points • comment • jan 29, 2026
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Verizon outages reported across U.S.
219 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com
219 points • comment • jan 07, 2026
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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
219 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder
219 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could
219 points • comment • feb 12, 2026
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Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
219 points • comment • jan 18, 2026
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When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype
219 points • comment • jan 26, 2026
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Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork
218 points • comment • jan 14, 2026
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Light Mode InFFFFFFlation
218 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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Speed up responses with fast mode
218 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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The Book of PF, 4th edition
217 points • comment • feb 01, 2026
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ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
217 points • comment • jan 17, 2026
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Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
217 points • comment • jan 02, 2026
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Games Workshop bans staff from using AI
217 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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You can't trust the internet anymore
217 points • comment • feb 14, 2026
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Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
217 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
217 points • comment • feb 02, 2026
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Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)
217 points • comment • jan 04, 2026
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The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)
217 points • comment • jan 13, 2026
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Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines
216 points • comment • feb 07, 2026
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Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
216 points • comment • jan 31, 2026
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Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)
216 points • comment • jan 24, 2026
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Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
215 points • comment • jan 25, 2026
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ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods
215 points • comment • jan 08, 2026