top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-03

Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/loud-noises-heard-venezuela-capital-southern-area-without-electricity-2026-01-03/

7 months ago

Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph

7 months ago

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/

7 months ago

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025

https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/

7 months ago

The suck is why we're here

https://nik.art/the-suck-is-why-were-here/

7 months ago

Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-1110-without-internet/#google_vignette

7 months ago

Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet

https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-1110-without-internet/

7 months ago

The C3 Programming Language

https://c3-lang.org

7 months ago

Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible

https://docs.swifdroid.com/app/

7 months ago

Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/explosions-reported-venezuela-caracas

7 months ago

Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second

https://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/

7 months ago

China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron

https://www.ic-pcb.com/chinas-leading-dram-maker-cxmt-targets-42-billion-ipo-as-it-takes-on-samsung-sk-hynix-and-micron.html

7 months ago

Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic

https://twitter.com/PenPizzaReport/status/2007347706017251535

7 months ago

The Kimwolf botnet is stalking your local network

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/the-kimwolf-botnet-is-stalking-your-local-network/

7 months ago

IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]

https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/blob/main/papers/IQuest_Coder_Technical_Report.pdf

7 months ago

Vector graphics on GPU

https://gasiulis.name/vector-graphics-on-gpu/

7 months ago

Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024)

https://www.hackster.io/news/jesse-taube-gets-linux-up-and-running-on-the-raspberry-pi-rp2350-s-hazard3-risc-v-cores-19088b87bb2c

7 months ago

Recursive Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24601

7 months ago

Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471648

7 months ago

Take One Small Step

https://thinkhuman.com/take-one-small-step/

7 months ago