8
Building a Monitoring System for Jobs That Never Ran • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:59 AM • vincentlakatos.com • r/programming
137
Workstation Owner Sadly Marks the End-of-Life for HP-UX • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:35 AM • osnews.com • Slashdot
149
Building a Rust-style static analyzer for C++ with AI • Jan 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM • mpaxos.com • Hacker News
56
How Kraft Heinz lost its lock on mac and cheese and American shoppers • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:47 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
27
The year of the 3D printed miniature (and other lies we tell ourselves) • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:41 PM • matduggan.com • ~hobbies
52
Moving out soon. Think out loud with me regarding saving money vs. quality of life. • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:28 PM • tildes.net • ~life
86P
Intellectual Junkyards • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM • forester-notes.org • Hacker News
384P
California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM • consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov • Hacker News
529
During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:36 PM • sparkbox.com • Hacker News
24
Agent Orchestration Is Not the Future • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM • moridinamael.github.io • Hacker News
18
The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:18 PM • youtube.com • ~humanities.history
22
KGGen: Extracting Knowledge Graphs from Plain Text with Language Models • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:16 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
140
Looking for a simple, low-cost way to build a personal website again • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
19P
Voting for Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up City Doesn't Mean I Approve of It • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM • mcsweeneys.net • Hacker News
52P
North Dakota Law Included Fake Critical Minerals Using Lawyers' Last Names • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:49 PM • northdakotamonitor.com • yro.slashdot
86
NeXTSTEP on Pa-RISC • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM • openpa.net • Hacker News
15
touchHLE: a high-level emulator for iPhone OS applications • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:42 PM • touchhle.org • ~tech
22
French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:16 PM • vajdgxeknfckxznvhmuy.supabase.co • r/programming
41
"HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I'm sad" • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM • osnews.com • Hacker News
406
The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM • effectiviology.com • Hacker News
136
Are Hybrid Cars Helping America Transition to Electric Vehicles? • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM • msn.com • Slashdot
88P
Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015) • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM • warontherocks.com • Hacker News
71
Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025) • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM • shreevatsa.net • Hacker News
298
Frontend devs, how do you handle 'Loading' and 'Error' states when the real API is too fast/stable? • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
43
Show HN: Quantum Tunnel • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM • chuanqisun.github.io • Hacker News
130
Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM • soatok.blog • Lobsters
184
OneDrive just deleted all of my files • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM • twitter.com/jasonkpargin • Hacker News
137
My .dev domain expired and not available for registration • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
220
When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:47 PM • practical.engineering • Hacker News
27
Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US 'extraordinary' artist visas • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
37P
Show HN: H-1B Salary Data Explorer • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
103
Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
41
retired from sad, new career in law • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM • vespertine.bearblog.dev • Bear
62
Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM • soatok.blog • Hacker News
90
LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
74
Show HN: An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update) • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:43 PM • traceformer.io • Hacker News
103
Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops? • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
61
The 2025 Steam Awards • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM • store.steampowered.com • ~games
52
Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:10 PM • fast.github.io • Lobsters
277P
North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM • bismarcktribune.com • Hacker News
1055
21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM • addyosmani.com • r/programming
256
Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM • pentestpartners.com • Hacker News
188
The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM • guille.site • Hacker News
37P
Why RSS Matters • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM • werd.io • Hacker News
68
'Fish Mouth' Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:34 PM • sciencealert.com • science.slashdot
378
Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM • stats.stackexchange.com • Hacker News
276
Quake Brutalist Jam III • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM • slipseer.com • Hacker News
98
OpenGitOps • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM • opengitops.dev • Hacker News
66
21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM • addyosmani.com • Lobsters
48
A ssh server that knows who you are. $ ssh whoami.filippo.io • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM • github.com/FiloSottile • Hacker News
6846
Psychedelics/ psilocybin/ hallucinogen use is rising in the United States; however, emergency and hospital admissions involving hallucinogens remain relatively rare. They account for a small fraction of substance-related hospital admissions, outweighed by alcohol- and opioid-related encounters. • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM • jamanetwork.com • r/science
598
Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM • github.com/huseyinbabal • Hacker News
381
I changed my personality in six weeks • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
138
Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code) • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM • cleoselene.com • Hacker News
11
retro theme in our open source Youtube alternative | Booster • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
851
Claude Code On-the-Go • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM • granda.org • Hacker News
163P
When the Internet Felt Like Freedom • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:37 PM • pego.dev • Bear
126
Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023) • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM • afar.com • Hacker News
68
Signals vs. Query-Based Compilers • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:26 PM • marvinh.dev • Hacker News
212
Agentic Patterns • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM • github.com/nibzard • Hacker News
147
GLSL Web CRT Shader • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM • blog.gingerbeardman.com • Hacker News
338
Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:10 PM • koreaherald.com • Hacker News
159
Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM • fast.github.io • Hacker News
92
NSFW Acronyms for Programmers (Free eBook) • Jan 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM • github.com/fristovic • Hacker News
108
"Microslop" trends on social media • Jan 4, 2026 at 1:45 PM • windowscentral.com • Hacker News
83
Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage • Jan 4, 2026 at 1:43 PM • github.com/Sampsoon • Hacker News
57
Microsoft's Risky Bet That Windows Can Become The Platform for AI Agents • Jan 4, 2026 at 1:34 PM • geekwire.com • Slashdot
21
CheriBSD: FreeBSD that takes advantage of CHERI • Jan 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM • cheribsd.org • Lobsters
28
Utopian Scholastic • Jan 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM • wol.fm • Lobsters
149P
Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro • Jan 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
21
Bookfinder: Find any book at the best price • Jan 4, 2026 at 1:18 PM • bookfinder.com • Hacker News
192
Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects • Jan 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM • ripplegame.app • Hacker News
137
Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI • Jan 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM • gamesradar.com • Hacker News
57
How do you report an entire topic? • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:49 AM • tildes.net • ~tildes
30
Recent Optimizations in Python's Reference Counting • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:45 AM • rushter.com • Hacker News
4784
Six particular depressive symptoms when experienced in midlife (45 to 69 years) predict dementia risk more than two decades later • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:38 AM • ucl.ac.uk • r/science
788P
How will the miracle happen today? • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:32 AM • kk.org • Hacker News
275
Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023) • Jan 4, 2026 at 11:05 AM • medium.com/infosec-watchtower • Hacker News
94P
Adding insular script like it's 1626 • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:31 AM • djmurphy.net • Hacker News
54
Awesome Games Done Quick 2026, a week-long charity fundraiser featuring speedruns, is live (runs January 4 - January 10) • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:25 AM • gamesdonequick.com • ~games
2341
Lessons from 14 years at Google • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:23 AM • addyosmani.com • Hacker News
565
Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM • scitechdaily.com • Hacker News
160
How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:11 AM • notes.xdavidhu.me • Hacker News
23
4 Ways to Improve A Perfect Join Algorithm • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:10 AM • remy.wang • Lobsters
99
Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025) • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM • blog.drjoshcsimmons.com • Hacker News
326
Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM • howbrowserswork.com • Hacker News
29P
Democracy Will Not Survive the Age of Consumption • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:07 AM • kasurian.com • Hacker News
1077
Web development is fun again • Jan 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM • ma.ttias.be • Hacker News
159P
AI sycophancy panic • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:41 AM • github.com/firasd • Hacker News
47
Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1 • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:38 AM • epenguin.imalone.co.uk • Lobsters
1222
The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:37 AM • candost.blog • Hacker News
516
Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:30 AM • fabiensanglard.net • Hacker News
24
On scannerless parsing again • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:30 AM • wareya.wordpress.com • Lobsters
100
Cold-blooded software (2023) • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:28 AM • dubroy.com • Hacker News
61
A modern guide to SQL JOINs • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:25 AM • kb.databasedesignbook.com • r/programming
2191
Industrial fungal mycelium from Aspergillus niger can be converted into high-performance vegan leather-like materials by valorising existing biomass waste, offering a viable alternative to animal-derived leather with comparable mechanical and thermal properties. • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:21 AM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
16
isaac's theory • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:12 AM • some---things.com • Bear
171
Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server • Jan 4, 2026 at 9:08 AM • mattwie.se • Hacker News
4
Xmake v3.0.6 Released, Android Native Apps, Flang, AppImage/dmg Support • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:57 AM • xmake.io • r/programming
351
Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:49 AM • lists.busybox.net • Hacker News
193
Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:45 AM • philippdubach.com • Hacker News
4579P
Researchers identify two psychological traits that predict conspiracy theory belief. The findings suggest that individuals who perceive the world as fundamentally unjust and those who struggle with uncertain or ambiguous situations are more likely to endorse conspiratorial narratives. • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:12 AM • psypost.org • r/science
128
Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:08 AM • github.com/wedow • Hacker News
55P
Maybe Comments SHOULD Explain 'What' (2017) • Jan 4, 2026 at 8:03 AM • hillelwayne.com • Lobsters
487
Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:57 AM • jeffgeerling.com • Hacker News
214
Moiré Explorer • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:54 AM • play.ertdfgcvb.xyz • Hacker News
354P
US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:50 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
53
Multi-day power outage for 45,000 Berlin homes after suspected arson attack • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:44 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
75
YouTube Playlist Downloader • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:34 AM • github.com/Linuxmaster14 • Hacker News
122P
The US Effort to Break China's Rare-Earth Monopoly • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:34 AM • msn.com • Slashdot
87
Nightshade: Make images unsuitable for model training • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:32 AM • nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu • Hacker News
50P
Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free? • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:29 AM • lukefleed.xyz • Lobsters
2896
Researchers compared 95 families following vegan, vegetarian or omnivorous diets, where children had been on the diet since birth. Children across all groups had similar growth and bone health. Vegan families showed the best cholesterol and cardiovascular health indices, but had lower iodine levels. • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:22 AM • nature.com • r/science
43
A New Year's letter to a young person • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:20 AM • siliconcontinent.com • Hacker News
82
The price of fame? Mortality risk among famous singers • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:11 AM • jech.bmj.com • Hacker News
40
JavaScript engines zoo • Jan 4, 2026 at 7:08 AM • zoo.js.org • Lobsters
181
FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:55 AM • rtfm.co.ua • Hacker News
242
is there a way to split html into "components"? • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:55 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
39
What do people usually do with spare Android phones? Any practical use cases? • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:34 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
58P
The Venezuelan Oil Narative Is Pure Theatre • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:28 AM • renegaderesources.pro • Hacker News
43
OpenTTD 15.0 • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:27 AM • openttd.org • Hacker News
286
JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:23 AM • zoo.js.org • Hacker News
682
Prior research suggests meditation may slow brain aging and reduce risk of Alzheimer's disease. New randomized clinical trial found that 1 week of daily mindfulness practice with slow breathing decreased plasma amyloid beta levels. Slow breathing may be how meditation influences Alzheimer's risk. • Jan 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM • onlinelibrary.wiley.com • r/science
404P
Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017) • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:43 AM • hillelwayne.com • Hacker News
5
Where good ideas come from (for software engineers) • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:39 AM • strategizeyourcareer.com • r/programming
137P
Was it a billion dollar mistake? • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:35 AM • gingerbill.org • Hacker News
32
Anatomy of BoltzGen • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:28 AM • huggingface.co • Hacker News
459
VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:22 AM • engadget.com • Hacker News
25
Ready for takeoff • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:16 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
18
Swift interface for GNUStep's version of AppKit • Jan 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM • github.com/austintatiousness • Hacker News
263
How Samba Was Written (2003) • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:58 AM • download.samba.org • Hacker News
102
Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:47 AM • stackoverflow.blog • Lobsters
202P
The PGP problem (2019) • Jan 4, 2026 at 4:11 AM • latacora.com • Hacker News
654
Stackoverflow: Questions asked per month over time. • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:59 AM • data.stackexchange.com • r/programming
291
The Gentle Seduction (1989) • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:35 AM • skyhunter.com • Hacker News
156
I am kinda curious about the demographics of Tildes • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:24 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
624
Can I start using Wayland in 2026? • Jan 4, 2026 at 3:11 AM • michael.stapelberg.ch • Hacker News
37
I no longer trust the stats that companies publish on the gender equality in their tech roles • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:55 AM • tildes.net • ~tech
79P
What are some stories of progressivism gone wrong in implementation? • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:20 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
204
Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026? • Jan 4, 2026 at 2:11 AM • michael.stapelberg.ch • Lobsters
56
Pixoo Sign Client for Ruby • Jan 4, 2026 at 1:54 AM • github.com/tenderlove • Hacker News