top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-07

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388

7 months ago

Eat Real Food

https://realfood.gov

7 months ago

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-institutional-investors-buying-single-family-homes-trump-says-2026-01-07/

7 months ago

Shipmap.org

https://www.shipmap.org/

7 months ago

Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/09/404081/sugar-papers-reveal-industry-role-shifting-national-heart-disease-focus

7 months ago

Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/dells-ces-2026-chat-was-the-most-pleasingly-un-ai-briefing-ive-had-in-maybe-5-years/

7 months ago

ChatGPT Health

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/

7 months ago

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]

https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf/contrib/coffeestains/coffeestains-en.pdf

7 months ago

A4 Paper Stories

https://susam.net/a4-paper-stories.html

7 months ago

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default

https://tailscale.com/changelog

7 months ago

Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-law-enforcement-involved-ice-related-shooting-minneapolis-rcna252812

7 months ago

US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-07/us-job-openings-decline-to-lowest-level-in-more-than-a-year

7 months ago

Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2

https://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2025/12/zootopia-2.html

7 months ago

JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/j-r-r-tolkien-reads-from-the-hobbit-for-30-minutes-1952.html

7 months ago

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree

7 months ago

Changes to Android Open Source Project

https://source.android.com/

7 months ago

“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)

https://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.html

7 months ago

Git Rebase for the Terrified

https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/git-rebase-for-the-terrified/

7 months ago

Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toxcancel/

7 months ago

How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-openai-gemini-chatgpt-b766e160

7 months ago