top 50% 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

X-Clacks-Overhead

https://hleb.dev/post/x-clacks-overhead/

7 months ago

Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time

https://xr0.dev

7 months ago

Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE

https://github.com/reinauer/amifuse

7 months ago

Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions

https://tallyai.money/

7 months ago

A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2015/03/19/

7 months ago

Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack

https://www.corviont.com/

7 months ago

Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture

https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2025-12-27-roomba.html

7 months ago

Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone

https://github.com/lyehe/porterminal

7 months ago

Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office

https://apoorv.page/blogs/over-engineered-dnd

7 months ago

Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012)

http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/1979/05/kf-20-coffee-making-machine.html

7 months ago

Reverse Engineering the Epson FilmScan 200 for Classic Mac

https://ronangaillard.github.io/posts/reverse-engineering-epson-filmscan-200/

7 months ago

Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024)

https://yosefk.com/blog/profiling-with-ctrl-c.html

7 months ago

Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25741

7 months ago

Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem

https://totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/09/27/cardiovascular-disease-is-a-solved-problem/

7 months ago

The Riven Diffs – Seeing Riven (1997) Differently

https://glthr.com/the-riven-diffs-1

7 months ago

Formal methods only solve half my problems

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/06/02/formal.html

7 months ago

Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone

https://stetsonblake.com/%2425+Walmart+Phone+for+Hackers

7 months ago

As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover

https://www.science.org/content/article/deep-sea-mining-race-ramps-mission-will-assess-whether-ecosystems-recover-afterward

7 months ago

JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast

https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-01-01/javascript-for-of-loops-are-actually-fast

7 months ago

Pole of Inaccessibility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_inaccessibility

7 months ago

Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/venezuela-strikes/card/finance-industry-eyes-investment-opportunities-in-venezuela-CmtLevzMTXEvRLkADjbG

7 months ago

Bluesky is not the good place

https://www.ms.now/opinion/bluesky-elon-musk-twitter-replacement

7 months ago

'Doomsday fish': Once-in-a-lifetime sea creature encountered in Monterey Bay

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/rare-deep-sea-fish-spotted-monterey-bay-21270815.php

7 months ago

Becoming a Centenarian

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/22/becoming-a-centenarian

7 months ago

The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling

https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/12/03/the-performance-revolution-in-javascript-tooling.html

7 months ago

Adventure 751 (1980)

https://bluerenga.blog/2026/01/01/adventure-751-1980/

7 months ago

Japan joining growing global trend of declining democracy

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16262732

7 months ago

Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on

https://the-decoder.com/google-engineer-says-claude-code-built-in-one-hour-what-her-team-spent-a-year-on/

7 months ago

Multiple explosions in Venezuela's capital Caracas

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/03/americas/venezuela-explosions-intl-hnk

7 months ago