Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 22, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706528

Claude's new constitution
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707572

Skip is now free and open source
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46706906

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708678

Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
https://huggingface.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713106

Nested code fences in Markdown
https://susam.net/nested-code-fences.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705201

Can you slim macOS down?
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/21/can-you-slim-macos-down/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702411

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46712678

JPEG XL Test Page
https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/jxl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708032

Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
https://www.fb.org/market-intel/significant-farm-losses-persist-despite-federal-assistance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713929

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 21, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-09/california-has-no-areas-of-dryness-first-time-in-25-years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698660

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unconventional-optimizations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692116

Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700594

Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691243

cURL removes bug bounties
https://etn.se/index.php/nyheter/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701733

The Unix Pipe Card Game
https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694124

Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
https://novalauncher.com/nova-is-here-to-stay
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696357

IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
https://www.johnmaguire.me/blog/ipv6-is-not-insecure-because-it-lacks-nat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696303

The challenges of soft delete
https://atlas9.dev/blog/soft-delete.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698061

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 20, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Level S4 solar radiation event
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-levels-reached-19-jan-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46684056

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/16/iphone-apple-app-store-search-results-ads-new-design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680974

What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-record-order-dns-standards/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681611

Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2026/company/porsche-deliveries-2025-41516.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686640

Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/america-polymarket-disaster/685662/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670524

The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688971

Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
https://lemdro.id/post/lemdro.id/35049920
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686655

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack
https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686273

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)
https://jon.bo/posts/nano-texture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682518

The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
https://www.jbecker.dev/research/prediction-market-microstructure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680515

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 19, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
https://radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-releases-helicopter-music-video-featuring-gaussian-splatting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670024

A Social Filesystem
https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665839

Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670279

Dead Internet Theory
https://kudmitry.com/articles/dead-internet-theory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671731

Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672150

A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
https://bitchat.free/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675853

High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedw6ylpynyo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673453

Sins of the Children
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669663

Gas Town Decoded
https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/gas-town-decoded/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624883

Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
https://getdock.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671952

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 18, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46657122

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663338

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
https://labs.ramp.com/rct
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588972

The recurring dream of replacing developers
https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658345

jQuery 4
https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664755

Raising money fucked me up
https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/raising-money-fucked-me-up
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660543

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro
https://twitter.com/neelsomani/status/2012695714187325745
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664631

Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
https://github.com/kip-dili/kip
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661897

The Olivetti Company
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-olivetti-company
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576581

Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons
https://icon-sets.iconify.design/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665411

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 17, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

STFU
https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142

Cloudflare acquires Astro
https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646645

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646777

East Germany balloon escape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648916

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647491

Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13
https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646263

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635309

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648885

High-Level Is the Goal
https://bvisness.me/high-level/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630816

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence
https://bfl.ai/blog/flux2-klein-towards-interactive-visual-intelligence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653721

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 16, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46633488

Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345

Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-tts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628329

Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
https://briarproject.org/manual/fa/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638013

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613324

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642560

Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618042

Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected
https://shellbox.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638629

First impressions of Claude Cowork
https://simonw.substack.com/p/first-impressions-of-claude-cowork
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612919

Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork
https://github.com/different-ai/openwork
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612494

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 15, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622328

Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
https://www.sparkfun.com/official-response
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488

The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
https://creepylink.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627652

Find a pub that needs you
https://www.ismypubfucked.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617360

Scaling long-running autonomous coding
https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624541

Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you
https://webtiles.kicya.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561341

Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
https://furiosa.ai/blog/introducing-rngd-server-efficient-ai-inference-at-data-center-scale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626410

Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616529

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624352

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 14, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Scott Adams has died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_JrOIo3SE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602102

AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
https://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490

There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
https://blog.jgc.org/2026/01/theres-ridiculous-amount-of-tech-in.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591810

A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap
https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-current-thread-user-time/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609630

Every GitHub object has two IDs
https://www.greptile.com/blog/github-ids
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602591

The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
https://www.owlposting.com/p/the-truth-behind-the-2026-jp-morgan
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605332

The Tulip Creative Computer
https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603995

How to make a damn website (2024)
https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604250

The $LANG Programming Language
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610557

No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
https://www.ablg.io/blog/no-management-needed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605854

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 13, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593022

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589675

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587934

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280

Postal Arbitrage
https://walzr.com/postal-arbitrage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591708

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587536

Date is out, Temporal is in
https://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589658

LLVM: The bad parts
https://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588837

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
https://cy.md/opencode-rce/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581095

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
https://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropic
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586766