top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-01-09

Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492

7 months ago

656 upvotes – 1062 comments

The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

https://xdaforums.com/t/discussion-the-root-and-mod-hiding-fingerprint-spoofing-keybox-stealing-cat-and-mouse-game.4425939/page-118

7 months ago

547 upvotes – 620 comments

Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410

7 months ago

622 upvotes – 511 comments

“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103

7 months ago

618 upvotes – 363 comments

How Markdown took over the world

https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

7 months ago

437 upvotes – 347 comments

What happened to WebAssembly

https://emnudge.dev/blog/what-happened-to-webassembly/

7 months ago

350 upvotes – 320 comments

Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux

https://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.html

7 months ago

472 upvotes – 311 comments

My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it

https://matthewrocklin.com/ai-zealotry/

7 months ago

165 upvotes – 228 comments

You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML

https://blog.novalistic.com/archives/2017/08/optional-end-tags-in-html/

7 months ago

170 upvotes – 228 comments

Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

https://philipotoole.com/start-your-meetings-at-5-minutes-past/

7 months ago

280 upvotes – 227 comments
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