top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-15

The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

https://creepylink.com/

7 months ago

Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345

7 months ago

Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-renewable-photo-essay

7 months ago

Apple Is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage

https://www.culpium.com/p/exclusiveapple-is-fighting-for-tsmc

7 months ago

The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis

https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

7 months ago

Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-tts

7 months ago

Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark

https://briarproject.org/manual/fa/

7 months ago

25 Years of Wikipedia

https://wikipedia25.org

7 months ago

'Elite': The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

https://werd.io/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

7 months ago

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs

7 months ago

A letter to those who fired tech writers because of AI

https://passo.uno/letter-those-who-fired-tech-writers-ai/

7 months ago

Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected

https://shellbox.dev/

7 months ago

High-Level Is the Goal

https://bvisness.me/high-level/

7 months ago

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail

https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/

7 months ago

Have Taken Up Farming

https://dylan.gr/1768295794

7 months ago

Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2/

7 months ago

Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

https://github.com/cjpais/Handy

7 months ago

Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s

https://furiosa.ai/blog/introducing-rngd-server-efficient-ai-inference-at-data-center-scale

7 months ago

Data is the only moat

https://frontierai.substack.com/p/data-is-your-only-moat

7 months ago

Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop

https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/7695

7 months ago