top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-14

Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714

7 months ago

FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/fbi-raid-washington-post-hannah-natanson

7 months ago

Claude Cowork exfiltrates files

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files

7 months ago

Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales

https://electrek.co/2026/01/13/ford-f150-lightning-outsold-tesla-cybertruck-canceled-not-selling-enough/

7 months ago

SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

https://www.sparkfun.com/official-response

7 months ago

I hate GitHub Actions with passion

https://xlii.space/eng/i-hate-github-actions-with-passion/

7 months ago

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure

https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting

7 months ago

Wine 11.0

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.0

7 months ago

Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616529

7 months ago

So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now

7 months ago

Find a pub that needs you

https://www.ismypubfucked.com/

7 months ago

1000 Blank White Cards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Blank_White_Cards

7 months ago

ASCII Clouds

https://caidan.dev/portfolio/ascii_clouds/

7 months ago

GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

https://blog.greg.technology/2025/11/27/github-should-charge-1-dollar-more-per-month.html

7 months ago

Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them

https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/claude-ne/

7 months ago

I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue

https://www.simplethread.com/redis-solidqueue/

7 months ago

Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

https://starlink.com/support/article/58c9c8b7-474e-246f-7e3c-06db3221d34d

7 months ago

Scaling long-running autonomous coding

https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents

7 months ago

The Gleam Programming Language

https://gleam.run/

7 months ago

The Influentists: AI hype without proof

https://carette.xyz/posts/influentists/

7 months ago

The $LANG Programming Language

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610557

7 months ago

Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/why-every-country-should-set-16

7 months ago

Crafting Interpreters

https://craftinginterpreters.com/

7 months ago

First impressions of Claude Cowork

https://simonw.substack.com/p/first-impressions-of-claude-cowork

7 months ago

Show HN: OpenWork – an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

https://github.com/different-ai/openwork

7 months ago

Verizon outages reported across U.S.

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/nation-world/verizon-outage-reported/507-ef3cb3d0-f595-432f-9f84-d1690a5085a7

7 months ago

Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46619464

7 months ago

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography

https://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/

7 months ago

Gas Town Decoded

https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/gas-town-decoded/

7 months ago

Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

https://epstein.trynia.ai/

7 months ago

How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5638908/walmart-prices-inflation-affordability-shrinkflation

7 months ago

Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o

7 months ago

Xous Operating System

https://xous.dev/

7 months ago

Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year

https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/wind-power-slashes-billion-euros-off-electricity-bills-20251217082020-nt.html

7 months ago

Servo 2025 Stats

https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-2025-stats/

7 months ago

Sun Position Calculator

https://drajmarsh.bitbucket.io/earthsun.html

7 months ago

Training my smartwatch to track intelligence

https://dmvaldman.github.io/rooklift/

7 months ago

US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-suspend-visa-processing-75-nations-next-week-fox-news-reports-2026-01-14/

7 months ago

4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin

https://www.the-berliner.com/english-news-berlin/4000-tons-of-potatoes-to-be-given-away-for-free/

7 months ago

Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740

7 months ago

Show HN: Tiny FOSS Compass and Navigation App (<2MB)

https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass

7 months ago

Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP

https://github.com/cosinusalpha/webctl

7 months ago

Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore (2019)

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2019/12/13/why-nukemap-isnt-on-google-maps-anymore/

7 months ago

Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical"

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/never-before-seen-linux-malware-is-far-more-advanced-than-typical/

7 months ago

Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620358

7 months ago

Stop using natural language interfaces

https://tidepool.leaflet.pub/3mcbegnuf2k2i

7 months ago

System Programming in Linux: A Hands-On Introduction "Demo" Programs

https://github.com/stewartweiss/intro-linux-sys-prog

7 months ago

Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)

https://www.zettalane.com/blog/openzfs-summit-2025-mayanas-objbacker.html

7 months ago

The <Geolocation> HTML Element

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/geolocation-html-element

7 months ago

AVX-512: First Impressions on Performance and Programmability

https://shihab-shahriar.github.io//blog/2026/AVX-512-First-Impressions-on-Performance-and-Programmability/

7 months ago

Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

https://www.tavus.io/post/sparrow-1-human-level-conversational-timing-in-real-time-voice

7 months ago

Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)

https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art22.html

7 months ago

Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework

https://gist.github.com/simonw/35732f187edbe4fbd0bf976d013f22c8

7 months ago

How much of my observability data is waste?

https://usetero.com/blog/the-question-your-observability-vendor-wont-answer

7 months ago

LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick

https://tomrenner.com/posts/400-year-confidence-trick/

7 months ago

Sending Data over Offline Finding Networks

https://cc-sw.com/find-my-and-find-hub-network-research/

7 months ago