top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-04

Lessons from 14 years at Google

https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/

7 months ago

The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café

https://candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe/

7 months ago

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

7 months ago

Claude Code On-the-Go

https://granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go/

7 months ago

How will the miracle happen today?

https://kk.org/thetechnium/how-will-the-miracle-happen-today/

7 months ago

Web development is fun again

https://ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again/

7 months ago

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)

https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/

7 months ago

Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis

https://scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-injection-regrows-knee-cartilage-and-prevents-arthritis/

7 months ago

Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS

https://github.com/huseyinbabal/taws

7 months ago

Can I start using Wayland in 2026?

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work

https://howbrowserswork.com/

7 months ago

Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10648326

7 months ago

Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/migrated-to-hugo/

7 months ago

Quake Brutalist Jam III

https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/quake-brutalist-jam-iii.549/

7 months ago

Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)

https://medium.com/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-91w-digital-watch-892bd519bd15

7 months ago

The Gentle Seduction (1989)

http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html

7 months ago

Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/eurostar-ai-vulnerability-when-a-chatbot-goes-off-the-rails/

7 months ago

Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/what-comments/

7 months ago

JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine

https://zoo.js.org/

7 months ago