top 50% 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

I changed my personality in six weeks

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260102-how-i-changed-my-personality-in-six-weeks

7 months ago

Moiré Explorer

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/#/src/demos/moire_explorer

7 months ago

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)

https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

7 months ago

How Samba Was Written (2003)

https://download.samba.org/pub/tridge/misc/french_cafe.txt

7 months ago

KDE onboarding is good now

https://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/

7 months ago

US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/greenland-denmark-us-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-donald-trump

7 months ago

Corroded: Illegal Rust

https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded

7 months ago

FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers

https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-home-nas-part-3-wireguard-vpn-linux-peer-and-routing/

7 months ago

Agentic Patterns

https://github.com/nibzard/awesome-agentic-patterns

7 months ago

North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names

https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/government-politics/article_515812a0-d29a-4161-91f1-3e53003e2911.html

7 months ago

Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects

https://ripplegame.app/

7 months ago

When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe

https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/4/15/when-kitty-litter-caused-a-nuclear-catastrophe

7 months ago

Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep

https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop

7 months ago

VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV

https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/volkswagen-is-bringing-physical-buttons-back-to-the-dashboard-with-the-id-polo-ev-190246116.html

7 months ago

OneDrive just deleted all of my files

https://twitter.com/jasonkpargin/status/2007659047663874120

7 months ago

The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer

https://guille.site/posts/3d-printed-michelson/

7 months ago

Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server

https://mattwie.se/hinge-command-control-c2

7 months ago

Pickle 1 AR Glasses (YC W25) May Be Fraudulent

https://twitter.com/thedowd/status/2007337800430198913

7 months ago

GLSL Web CRT Shader

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/01/04/glsl-web-crt-shader/

7 months ago

How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify

https://notes.xdavidhu.me/notes/how-i-archived-10-years-of-memories-using-spotify

7 months ago

Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them

https://fast.github.io/blog/stop-forwarding-errors-start-designing-them/

7 months ago

MyTorch – Minimalist autograd in 450 lines of Python

https://github.com/obround/mytorch

7 months ago

Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay

https://philippdubach.com/posts/nikes-crisis-and-the-economics-of-brand-decay/

7 months ago

How Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/31/the-master-of-contradictions-by-morten-hi-jensen-review-how-thomas-mann-wrote-the-magic-mountain

7 months ago

"Microslop" trends on social media

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microslop-trends-on-social-media-backlash-to-microsofts-on-going-ai-obsession-continues

7 months ago

Adding insular script like it's 1626

https://www.djmurphy.net/blog/clo-gaelach/

7 months ago

The PGP problem (2019)

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/

7 months ago

Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code)

https://cleoselene.com/

7 months ago

The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210209-the-worlds-most-misunderstood-novel

7 months ago

Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)

https://www.afar.com/magazine/why-airplane-windows-have-tiny-holes

7 months ago

Cold-blooded software (2023)

https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/

7 months ago

Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker

https://github.com/wedow/ticket

7 months ago

Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config

https://github.com/BayramAnnakov/claude-reflect

7 months ago

Venezuela's interim government says it is united behind Maduro

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/venezuelas-maduro-custody-trump-says-us-will-run-country-2026-01-04/

7 months ago