top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-09

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

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

9 months ago

Start your meetings at 5 minutes past

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

9 months ago

Deno has made its PyPI distribution official

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/31254

9 months ago

Sigmund Freud's Begonia

https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/emma-freud-sigmund-freuds-begonia

9 months ago

Garbage collection is contrarian

https://trynova.dev/blog/garbage-collection-is-contrarian

9 months ago

Why Real Life is better than IRC (2000)

https://everything2.com/node/e2node/Why%20Real%20Life%20is%20better%20than%20IRC

9 months ago

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/

9 months ago

San Remo Pasta Measurer

https://www.toxel.com/tech/2025/09/17/san-remo-pasta-measurer/

9 months ago

RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?

https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-01-08-crappy-computer-showdown/

9 months ago

Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator

https://www.donutthejedi.com/

9 months ago

India's Electric Two-Wheeler Market: Rise, Reset and What Comes Next

https://micromobility.io/news/indias-electric-two-wheeler-market-rise-reset-and-what-comes-next

9 months ago

Code and Let Live

https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/

9 months ago

Show HN: EuConform – Offline-first EU AI Act compliance tool (open source)

https://github.com/Hiepler/EuConform

9 months ago

The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]

https://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/cray.cray1.1977.102638650.pdf

9 months ago

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters

https://beta.dwitter.net

9 months ago

Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth

https://lab.revelium.studio/ml-sharp

9 months ago

Going for Gold: The Story of the Golden Lego RCX and NXT

https://bricknerd.com/home/going-for-gold-the-story-of-the-golden-lego-rcx-and-nxt-9-9-21

9 months ago

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

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

9 months ago

Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

https://quack.sdan.io

9 months ago

How Markdown took over the world

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

9 months ago