Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 12, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
https://antirez.com/news/158
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
https://fulghum.io/self-hosting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580326

iCloud Photos Downloader
https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578921

I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539478

Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543509

Xfce is great
https://rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584173

This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser
https://iczelia.net/posts/snake-polyglot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580864

Poison Fountain
https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577464

Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577242

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 11, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568794

Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
https://www.openchaos.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566812

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
https://trails.pieterma.es/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567400

Code and Let Live
https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825

AI is a business model stress test
https://dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-test
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567392

Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering
https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571980

My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
https://alienchow.dev/post/fibre_disintegration/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572679

A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c623r47d67lo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572769

Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569312

ASCII-Driven Development
https://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538628

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

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• (00:00) - Intro

Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555760

Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
https://lend-me-your-ears.specr.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210

“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560445

How will the miracle happen today?
https://kk.org/thetechnium/how-will-the-miracle-happen-today/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489514

Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
https://nexanet.ai/blog/53-times-flocksafety-hardcoded-the-password-for-americas-surveillance-infrastructure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555807

Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
https://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553343

How Markdown took over the world
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556695

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
https://beta.dwitter.net
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557489

Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
https://quack.sdan.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557029

RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-01-08-crappy-computer-showdown/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558148

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 9, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541892

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077

How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code
https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620

The Jeff Dean Facts
https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540498

Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549823

AI coding assistants are getting worse?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546113

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform
https://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981

Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547740

Why I left iNaturalist
https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548940

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 8, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-institutional-investors-buying-single-family-homes-trump-says-2026-01-07/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531068

Eat Real Food
https://realfood.gov
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529237

Shipmap.org
https://www.shipmap.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527161

A4 Paper Stories
https://susam.net/a4-paper-stories.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525888

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]
https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf/contrib/coffeestains/coffeestains-en.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526933

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default
https://tailscale.com/changelog
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531925

ChatGPT Health
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531280

“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)
https://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525640

Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware
https://patchouli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537489

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 7, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Vietnam bans unskippable ads
https://saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/28652-vienam-bans-unskippable-ads,-requires-skip-button-to-appear-after-5-seconds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514677

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
https://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
https://github.com/rberg27/doom-coding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517458

The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470017

I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
https://medium.com/@cristi.baluta/i-wanted-a-camera-that-doesnt-exist-so-i-built-it-5f9864533eb7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466843

Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)
https://phrack.org/issues/71/17
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518129

A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518573

Sergey Brin's Unretirement
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/google-co-founder-sergey-brins-unretirement-is-a-lesson-for-the-rest-of-us/91280208
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452641

Passing of Joe Mancuso
https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516137

Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit
https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/how-microsoft-killed-my-snapdragon-devkit/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521860

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 6, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963

Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103

Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
https://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027

Pebble Round 2
https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-ever
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335

I switched from VSCode to Zed
https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735

Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501894

enclose.horse
https://enclose.horse/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211

Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
https://donotnotify.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646

Welcome to Gas Town
https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936

Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
https://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501137

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 5, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Lessons from 14 years at Google
https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488819

The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
https://candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488355

Web development is fun again
https://ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488576

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488278

Claude Code On-the-Go
https://granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491486

Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491749

I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469877

Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/674129/why-does-a-linear-least-squares-fit-appear-to-have-a-bias-when-applied-to-simple
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491821

Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work
https://howbrowserswork.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488654

During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
https://sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_performance
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 4, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482345

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377

The C3 Programming Language
https://c3-lang.org
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478647

The suck is why we're here
https://nik.art/the-suck-is-why-were-here/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482877

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485090

Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible
https://docs.swifdroid.com/app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483023

Corroded: Illegal Rust
https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483531

KDE onboarding is good now
https://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432

Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays
https://myembeddedstuff.com/e-ink-spectra-6-color
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440037

Take One Small Step
https://thinkhuman.com/take-one-small-step/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482107

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 3, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
https://indieweb.org/POSSE#
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468600

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469577

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465327

Clicks Communicator
https://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467057

Assorted less(1) tips
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464120

Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second
https://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471171

Jank Lang Hit Alpha
https://github.com/jank-lang/jank
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468517

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467677

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone
https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466364