top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-02

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7 months ago

1077 upvotes – 247 comments

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/

7 months ago

784 upvotes – 130 comments

Why users cannot create Issues directly

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558

7 months ago

773 upvotes – 310 comments

I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

https://old.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

7 months ago

623 upvotes – 298 comments

HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.27.2400820

7 months ago

591 upvotes – 357 comments

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/

7 months ago

587 upvotes – 1194 comments

Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got

https://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/

7 months ago

585 upvotes – 269 comments

FracturedJson

https://github.com/j-brooke/FracturedJson/wiki

7 months ago

575 upvotes – 164 comments

The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177

7 months ago

567 upvotes – 403 comments

10 years of personal finances in plain text files

https://sgoel.dev/posts/10-years-of-personal-finances-in-plain-text-files/

7 months ago

502 upvotes – 192 comments

Pebble Round 2

https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-ever

7 months ago

481 upvotes – 296 comments

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

7 months ago

466 upvotes – 138 comments

Parental controls aren't for parents

https://beasthacker.com/til/parental-controls-arent-for-parents.html

7 months ago

451 upvotes – 455 comments

39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos

https://media.ccc.de/b/congress/2025

7 months ago

438 upvotes – 110 comments

I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)

https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page

7 months ago

437 upvotes – 121 comments

Happy Public Domain Day 2026

https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01/public-domain-day-2026/

7 months ago

430 upvotes – 85 comments

Clicks Communicator

https://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicator

7 months ago

422 upvotes – 261 comments

Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026

7 months ago

382 upvotes – 55 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466074

7 months ago

359 upvotes – 394 comments

Jank Lang Hit Alpha

https://github.com/jank-lang/jank

7 months ago

252 upvotes – 33 comments

Lights and Shadows (2020)

https://ciechanow.ski/lights-and-shadows/

7 months ago

240 upvotes – 32 comments

Assorted less(1) tips

https://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/

7 months ago

237 upvotes – 55 comments

Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)

https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2022/04/26/how-to-repair-the-underside-of-a-ships-hull-still-in-the-river-in-50%CB%9Ac-yakutsk/

7 months ago

237 upvotes – 64 comments

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html

7 months ago

221 upvotes – 279 comments

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/15-749/READINGS/required/cas/tridgell96.pdf

7 months ago

218 upvotes – 49 comments

Linux kernel security work

http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/01/02/linux-kernel-security-work/

7 months ago

189 upvotes – 106 comments

Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface

https://github.com/maxpert/marmot

7 months ago

189 upvotes – 38 comments

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html

7 months ago

187 upvotes – 73 comments

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

https://unixv4.dev/

7 months ago

176 upvotes – 80 comments

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

https://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03

7 months ago

173 upvotes – 154 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466073

7 months ago

172 upvotes – 434 comments

A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer

https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/s/gbrh2zxeou

7 months ago

159 upvotes – 43 comments

A small collection of text-only websites

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/

7 months ago

153 upvotes – 60 comments

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)

https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-home-nas-part-1-configuring-zfs-mirror-raid1/

7 months ago

150 upvotes – 53 comments

One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household

https://lalitm.com/post/one-number-i-trust/

7 months ago

142 upvotes – 91 comments

Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin

https://carette.xyz/posts/going_immutable_macos/

7 months ago

140 upvotes – 79 comments

Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/tesla-sales-fell-by-9-percent-in-2025-its-second-yearly-decline/

7 months ago

138 upvotes – 212 comments

US Government demands access to European police databases and biometrics [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-trump-government-demands-access-to-european-police-databases-and-biometrics

7 months ago

138 upvotes – 46 comments

TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA

https://github.com/Alanma23/tinytinyTPU-co

7 months ago

135 upvotes – 59 comments

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635

7 months ago

121 upvotes – 27 comments

Photographing the hidden world of slime mould

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d9409p76qo

7 months ago

111 upvotes – 30 comments

"Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-3-eerie-and-inspector-dangerfuck/

7 months ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464962

7 months ago

100 upvotes – 128 comments

Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games

https://github.com/bquenin/interpreter

7 months ago

93 upvotes – 13 comments

How HTML changes in ePub

https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/11/

7 months ago

88 upvotes – 32 comments

Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die (2018)

https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/your-real-biological-clock-is-youre-going-to-die/

7 months ago

88 upvotes – 75 comments

Lessons from Hash Table Merging

https://gist.github.com/attractivechaos/d2efc77cc1db56bbd5fc597987e73338

7 months ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026

https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/global_software-engineering_jobs_january_2026/

7 months ago

80 upvotes – 33 comments

Grok Can't Apologize. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?

https://www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-apologize-grok-isnt-sentient

7 months ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy

https://kyo.iroiro.party/en/posts/100-percent-lisp/

7 months ago

79 upvotes – 18 comments

Ukraine fakes commander's death to trick Russia into paying $500k bounty

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/01/ukrainian-spies-fake-commander-death-trick-russia/

7 months ago

78 upvotes – 39 comments

Systematically Improving Espresso: Mathematical Modeling and Experiment (2020)

https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(19)30410-2

7 months ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

https://www.seangoedecke.com/grok-deepfakes/

7 months ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468959

7 months ago

73 upvotes – 70 comments

How dependabot works

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/02/how-dependabot-actually-works.html

7 months ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

NY Fed cash transfers to banks increase dramatically in Q4 2025

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

7 months ago

68 upvotes – 26 comments

The first new compass since 1936

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDhbZ8-BZI

7 months ago

67 upvotes – 54 comments
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