top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-06

Vietnam bans unskippable ads

https://saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/28652-vienam-bans-unskippable-ads,-requires-skip-button-to-appear-after-5-seconds

7 months ago

enclose.horse

https://enclose.horse/

7 months ago

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

https://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/

7 months ago

AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/aws_price_increase/

7 months ago

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

https://github.com/rberg27/doom-coding

7 months ago

★ 1.7k

65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform

https://philippdubach.com/standalone/hn-sentiment/

7 months ago

Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

https://akr.am/blog/posts/why-is-the-gmail-app-700-mb

7 months ago

C Is Best (2025)

https://sqlite.org/whyc.html

7 months ago

Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a69916699/volkswagen-interior-physical-buttons-return/

7 months ago

Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities

https://blgardner.github.io/prism.tools/

7 months ago

A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time

https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507/

7 months ago

Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)

https://phrack.org/issues/71/17

7 months ago

“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders

https://sethmlarson.dev/food-jpegs-in-super-smash-bros-and-kirby-air-riders

7 months ago

Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-eye-greenland-sharks-vision-centuries.html

7 months ago

State of the Fin 2026-01-06

https://jellyfin.org/posts/state-of-the-fin-2026-01-06/

7 months ago

Video Game Websites in the early 00s

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/video-game-websites-in-the-early-00s

7 months ago

High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04859

7 months ago

Passing of Joe Mancuso

https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853

7 months ago

★ 2.3k Python MIT

Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics

https://blog.booleanbiotech.com/oral-microbiome-biogaia

7 months ago

Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side

https://puzer.github.io/github_recommender/

7 months ago

Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy

https://geospy.ai/blog/locating-a-photo-of-a-vehicle-in-30-seconds-with-geospy

7 months ago

Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner

https://layandreas.github.io/personal-blog/posts/how-spotify-made-me-self-host/

7 months ago

CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/ces-2026-taking-the-lids-off-amds

7 months ago

Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios

https://conbini.kikkia.dev/

7 months ago

Dude, where's my supersonic jet?

https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/dude-wheres-my-supersonic-jet

7 months ago

Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e0SQn9uUlw

7 months ago

Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09882

7 months ago

Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u6Lacc7wx4yYkBQ3r/insights-into-claude-opus-4-5-from-pokemon

7 months ago

SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

https://scenelist.org/

7 months ago

Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/nyregion/mamdani-affordability-consumer-protections.html

7 months ago

Are we tired of social media? (2025)

https://www.danielbrendel.com/blog/24-are-we-tired-of-social-media-once-and-for-all

7 months ago

Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514648

7 months ago

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)

https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-big-companies-keep-failing-the-stack-fallacy/

7 months ago

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists

https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/2007849014407086427

7 months ago

Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket

https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-and-mini-pc-home-lab-prices-hit-parity-as-dram-costs-skyrocket-price-hikes-force-hobbyists-to-weigh-up-performance-versus-power-consumption

7 months ago

Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick

https://aman.bh/blog/2025/creating-embroidered-charts-with-r-and-imagemagick

7 months ago

Mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hundreds-of-mysterious-victorian-era-shoes-are-washing-up-on-a-beach-in-wales-nobody-knows-where-they-came-from-180987943/

7 months ago

Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS

https://gizmodo.com/dell-admits-it-made-a-huge-mistake-when-it-abandoned-xps-2000705053

7 months ago

Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU

https://ss.ekzhang.com/p/jax-js-an-ml-library-for-the-web

7 months ago

Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515777

7 months ago

Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents

https://github.com/marcoaapfortes/Mantic.sh

7 months ago

★ 547 TypeScript

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during conference

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/

7 months ago

How to Be Less Awkward

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/how-to-be-less-awkward

7 months ago

High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64

https://github.com/kressler/fast-containers

7 months ago

★ 74 C++ BSD-3-Clause

Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants

https://metacpan.org/dist/perlsecret/view/lib/perlsecret.pod

7 months ago

Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI

https://github.com/shakedlokits/stash

7 months ago

★ 205 Shell GPL-3.0

Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics

https://www.obsessivefacts.com/gemini-proxy?uri=gemini%3A%2F%2Fgemini.bortzmeyer.org%2Fsoftware%2Flupa%2Fstats.gmi

7 months ago

Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect

https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2026/01/portlands-gas-powered-leaf-blower-ban-goes-into-effect.html

7 months ago

New Lego smart-play system

https://www.lego.com/en-us/smart-play

7 months ago

Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

https://www.androidauthority.com/aosp-source-code-schedule-3630018/

7 months ago

Why German Strings Are Everywhere?

https://cedardb.com/blog/german_strings/

7 months ago

The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025)

https://carette.xyz/posts/focus_will_be_the_skill_of_the_future/

7 months ago

Loongarch Improvements with Box64

https://box86.org/2026/01/new-box64-v0-4-0-released/

7 months ago