50
Patching: The Boring Security Practice That Could Save You $700 Million • Jan 2, 2026 at 1:12 AM • lukasniessen.medium.com • r/programming
67
Can Bundler be as fast as uv? • Jan 2, 2026 at 1:09 AM • tenderlovemaking.com • r/programming
139
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162
Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018) • Jan 2, 2026 at 12:39 AM • hmmdaily.com • Hacker News
34
10 years of personal finances in plain text files • Jan 2, 2026 at 12:27 AM • sgoel.dev • Lobsters
200
A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer • Jan 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM • reddit.com • Hacker News
42
january 1 omg • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM • combatdavey.net • Bear
900
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NameCheap revoked domain from project because they don't like their politics • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM • twitter.com/receipts_lol • Hacker News
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How to use AI to augment learning without losing critical thinking skills? • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:17 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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AB316: No AI Scapegoating Allowed • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM • shub.club • Hacker News
34
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17
Is Next Year 2027? • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:34 PM • google.com • Hacker News
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Australia Enforces Age ID Checks for Search Engine Users • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:34 PM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
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Survey across 90 societies finds everyday norms vary across cultures and have become more permissive over time • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:25 PM • doi.org • r/science
11
coco: a simple stackless, single-threaded, and header-only C++20 coroutine library • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:24 PM • luajit.io • r/programming
100
Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:01 PM • github.com/bquenin • Hacker News
63
Outrage as X's Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:53 PM • cnbctv18.com • Hacker News
71
China's BYD set to overtake Tesla as top EV seller • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:51 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
23
Show HN: Turning 100-plus comments HN threads into readable discussions • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:45 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
37
ReactOS Starts 2026 with a Major Step Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:39 PM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
223
Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:21 PM • github.com/maxpert • Hacker News
17
AI Futures Model: Dec 2025 Update • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:51 PM • blog.ai-futures.org • Hacker News
512
Happy Public Domain Day 2026 • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:42 PM • publicdomainreview.org • Hacker News
91
Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:36 PM • kyo.iroiro.party • Hacker News
17
Norman Foster's steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:25 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
1063
Why users cannot create Issues directly • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:24 PM • github.com/ghostty-org • Hacker News
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California Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:07 PM • privacy.ca.gov • Hacker News
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New California Laws Going into Effect in 2026 • Jan 1, 2026 at 7:54 PM • newsroom.courts.ca.gov • Hacker News
43
Self-taught Laravel dev working at a local agency — how would you hunt for your first remote job from here? • Jan 1, 2026 at 7:22 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Article: Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight • Jan 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM • medium.com/@dmitrytrifonov • r/programming
86
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31
Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy • Jan 1, 2026 at 6:31 PM • kyo.iroiro.party • Lobsters
25
Awards for games that I played in 2025, the worst year of my life • Jan 1, 2026 at 6:10 PM • itsjintor.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Welcome to Gas Town • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:36 PM • steve-yegge.medium.com • Hacker News
56
Some of Your Cells Are Not Genetically Yours • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM • nature.com • science.slashdot
101
WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:09 PM • nullprogram.com • Hacker News
184
What *is* code? (2015) • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
29
FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM • freebsdfoundation.org • Hacker News
1496
Genetic evidence suggests people began transporting pigs much earlier than once thought. New study identifies populations living on Sulawesi — possibly as far back as 50,000 years ago — as some of the earliest movers. Pig populations across the Pacific are the legacy of repeated human migrations. • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:47 PM • discovermagazine.com • r/science
18
xcc700: mini C compiler for esp32 • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:46 PM • github.com/valdanylchuk • Lobsters
458
Can Bundler be as fast as uv? • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:37 PM • tenderlovemaking.com • Hacker News
28
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Straussian Memes • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:24 PM • lesswrong.com • Hacker News
24
Cycling Game (Mini Neural Net Demo) • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:10 PM • doc.ic.ac.uk • Hacker News
165
'The Cult of Costco' • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:10 PM • msn.com • Slashdot
17P
Iranian Protesters Killed as Unrest Turns Violent on Fifth Day • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
62
Show HN: Tasker – An open-source desktop agent for browser and OS automation • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM • automatewithtasker.com • Hacker News
13
The GDB JIT interface • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM • bernsteinbear.com • Lobsters
12
Does the way you tie a sheet bend matter? • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM • youtube.com • ~hobbies
40
How I rebooted my social life • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:43 PM • takes.jamesomalley.co.uk • ~life
1176
A website to destroy all websites • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:36 PM • henry.codes • Hacker News
2142
Linux is good now • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM • pcgamer.com • Hacker News
46
Gene — a homoiconic, general-purpose language built around a generic “Gene” data type • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM • github.com/gene-lang • r/programming
28
Apple reportedly cuts production of Vision Pro headset after poor sales • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Iran Offers To Sell Advanced Weapons Systems For Crypto • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM • ft.com • Slashdot
18P
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137
Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM • mehmetince.net • Hacker News
102
Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:58 PM • twitter.com/michaelnicollsx • Hacker News
37
A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM • timur.hu • Hacker News
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Namecheap takes down domain hosting video archives of Israeli war crimes • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:46 PM • neosmart.net • Hacker News
61
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53
Prompting People • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM • kuber.studio • Hacker News
32
Writing an eigenvalue solver in Rust for WebAssembly • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM • abstractnonsense.xyz • Hacker News
47
Arpanet standardized TCP/IP on this day in 1983 • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
60
Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:29 PM • danilafe.com • Lobsters
96
Your Best Days Are Still Ahead • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM • onlinegoddess.net • Bear
74
AI friends too cheap to meter • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:17 PM • jasmi.news • ~tech
243
Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM • jeffgeerling.com • Hacker News
288
I used an old-school security trick to catch prompt injection on AI agents • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:57 PM • github.com/mariocandela • r/programming
1197
Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:46 PM • cnn.com • Hacker News
123
Monads in C# (Part 2): Result • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM • alexyorke.github.io • Hacker News
14
My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025 • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:42 PM • selfh.st • Hacker News
10
The Wes Cook archive • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:42 PM • wescook.art • ~arts
222
'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure' • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:40 PM • theregister.com • Slashdot
106
Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:34 PM • lethain.com • Hacker News
68
Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008) • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM • ocw.mit.edu • Hacker News
188
Discovering the world’s most endangered great whale species did not advance an issue-attention cycle in news media: Implications for Rice’s whale conservation and management • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:15 PM • link.springer.com • r/science
272P
DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm US Citizenship • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM • reason.com • Slashdot
80
Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand? • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:09 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
86
Gemini 3.0 Deciphered the Mystery of a Nuremberg Chronicle Leaf's • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:08 PM • blog.gdeltproject.org • Hacker News
59
Michel Siffre’s self-experiments in a cave with no light (2018) • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:07 PM • newscientist.com • Hacker News
60
Memory Subsystem Optimizations • Jan 1, 2026 at 12:52 PM • johnnysswlab.com • Hacker News
23
Email Privacy Tester • Jan 1, 2026 at 12:33 PM • emailprivacytester.com • Lobsters
599
Cameras and Lenses (2020) • Jan 1, 2026 at 12:18 PM • ciechanow.ski • Hacker News
94
Autism hasn't increased • Jan 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM • marginalrevolution.com • Hacker News
18
Research library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to close Friday • Jan 1, 2026 at 12:02 PM • nytimes.com • ~space
28
Eric Barone makes a $125,000 donation to the MonoGame project • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:58 AM • monogame.net • ~comp
51
New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:58 AM • kinder.rice.edu • Hacker News
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The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:54 AM • twitter.com/DHSgov • Hacker News
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Nono's Odyssey with Streetview • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:41 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
76
European Space Agency hit again as cybercriminals claim 200 GB data up for sale • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:28 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
29
Mystic Symbolic Generator • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:23 AM • mysticsymbolic.art • ~design
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Half of suicide victims don't have known psychiatric risk factors, genetic studies reveal less likelihood of depression gene presence, suggesting unique anonymity in risk factors • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:20 AM • healthcare.utah.edu • r/science
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DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:16 AM • reason.com • Hacker News
69
Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (January 2026) • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~health.mental
17
What creative projects have you been working on? • Jan 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~creative
373
Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
19
Every LLM hallucinates that std::vector deletes elements in a LIFO order • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:56 AM • am17an.bearblog.dev • Bear
22
The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:54 AM • calendar.perfplanet.com • Hacker News
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Partisan X posts boost political polarisation among users, research finds • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:51 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
1007
BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:49 AM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
109
Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM • centamori.com • Hacker News
124
Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:47 AM • github.com/fsmunoz • Hacker News
604
50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:45 AM • lightcapai.medium.com • Hacker News
112
Heap Overflow in FFmpeg EXIF • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:31 AM • bugs.pwno.io • Hacker News
115
Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM • bgr.com • Hacker News
382
ACM Is Now Open Access • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:19 AM • acm.org • Hacker News
655
Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust • Jan 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM • openworkers.com • Hacker News
3
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149
Build a Deep Learning Library • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:53 AM • zekcrates.quarto.pub • Hacker News
126
We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:52 AM • blog.trailofbits.com • Hacker News
49
iPhone driving macOS 15.6, with native M4 driver partially patched for A18 • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:49 AM • twitter.com/khanhduytran0 • Hacker News
42
Darwin the Man of His Times • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:41 AM • aethermug.com • Hacker News
603
Python numbers every programmer should know • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:39 AM • mkennedy.codes • Hacker News
714P
2025 Letter • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:32 AM • danwang.co • Hacker News
121
Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:26 AM • textonly.github.io • Hacker News
75
Joseph Campbell Meets George Lucas – Part I (2015) • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:12 AM • starwars.com • Hacker News
16
DeepSeek kicks off 26 with paper signalling push to train bigger models for less • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:03 AM • scmp.com • Hacker News
64
You Can't Trust Your Eyes To Tell You What's Real Anymore, Says Instagram Head • Jan 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM • theverge.com • Slashdot
100
Making Magic Leap past Nvidia's secure bootchain and breaking Tesla Autopilots • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:58 AM • fahrplan.events.ccc.de • Hacker News
86
Logos Language Guide: Compile English to Rust • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:48 AM • logicaffeine.com • Hacker News
839
iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:30 AM • developer.apple.com • Hacker News
21
Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:27 AM • orlp.net • Hacker News
89
Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:14 AM • herbsutter.com • Lobsters
4703P
Rising income inequality predicts longer work hours globally, new research finds. By analyzing data from nearly 70 countries and long-term surveys from the United States and China, the researchers found that widening income gaps tend to predict longer work weeks. • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:04 AM • psypost.org • r/science
58
Waymos Are Now Coming For Your Coveted San Francisco Parking Spots • Jan 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM • sfchronicle.com • Slashdot
432
Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them • Jan 1, 2026 at 7:29 AM • sherwood.news • Hacker News
16
Veritasium: The Ridiculous Engineering of ASML Machine [video] • Jan 1, 2026 at 7:16 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
81
One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household • Jan 1, 2026 at 7:04 AM • lalitm.com • Lobsters
13
Monthly Getting Started / Web Dev Career Thread • Jan 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
33
"Energy saver" mode • Jan 1, 2026 at 6:56 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
93P
Bulgaria joins euro area from 1 January • Jan 1, 2026 at 6:24 AM • ec.europa.eu • Hacker News
154
Windows 11 Outperforming Linux on an Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop • Jan 1, 2026 at 6:20 AM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
759
Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] • Jan 1, 2026 at 6:17 AM • media.ccc.de • Hacker News
912
I rebooted my social life • Jan 1, 2026 at 6:01 AM • takes.jamesomalley.co.uk • Hacker News
383
Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:53 AM • github.com/buyukakyuz • Hacker News
45
Buying a lotta RAM now, as an investment ... thoughts? • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:40 AM • tildes.net • ~tech
14
Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized language model small enough to run on an 8-bit Z80 processor • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:33 AM • github.com/HarryR • Lobsters
293
Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
25
Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM • orlp.net • r/programming
89
Show HN: Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:25 AM • wario.style • Hacker News
56
UK Company Sends Factory With 1,000C Furnace Into Space • Jan 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM • bbc.com • science.slashdot
4
Saunas, electronica and air guitar – Oulu, Finland's tech city, is European Capital of Culture for 2026 • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:54 AM • theguardian.com • ~travel
317
Children and Helical Time • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:53 AM • moultano.wordpress.com • Hacker News
81
Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology (2020) • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:42 AM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
835
Sergey Brin's Unretirement • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:30 AM • inc.com • Hacker News
51
Happy new year! • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:22 AM • tildes.net • ~misc
54
Can I make my website update directly from a git repo? • Jan 1, 2026 at 4:14 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
793
Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:56 AM • herbsutter.com • r/programming
61
Writing Windows 95 software in 2025 • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:37 AM • tlxdev.hashnode.dev • Lobsters
15
hindsight: GitHub-style git activity visualizer for terminal • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:14 AM • github.com/chaosprint • Lobsters
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Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery • Jan 1, 2026 at 3:01 AM • abc.net.au • Hacker News
29
MHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:58 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
116
Ask HN: How did you learn to code? • Jan 1, 2026 at 2:50 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
344
AI reliance and cognitive decline • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:34 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
79
i built a minimal accountability tracker for 2026 • Jan 1, 2026 at 1:29 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev