top 50% 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

Apple Is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage

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

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

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

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs

7 months ago

Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files

https://patrickmccanna.net/a-better-way-to-limit-claude-code-and-other-coding-agents-access-to-secrets/

7 months ago

CVEs Affecting the Svelte Ecosystem

https://svelte.dev/blog/cves-affecting-the-svelte-ecosystem

7 months ago

From Nevada to Kansas by Glider

https://www.weglide.org/flight/978820

7 months ago

Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode

https://gist.github.com/R44VC0RP/bd391f6a23185c0fed6c6b5fb2bac50e

7 months ago

Design and Implementation of Sprites

https://fly.io/blog/design-and-implementation/

7 months ago

UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction

https://electrek.co/2026/01/14/uk-offshore-wind-record-auction/

7 months ago

Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-unearthed-a-massive-medieval-cargo-ship-thats-the-largest-vessel-of-its-kind-ever-found-180987984/

7 months ago

The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project

https://nothings.org/gamedev/thief_rendering.html

7 months ago

Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console

https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-codebreach-vulnerability-aws-codebuild

7 months ago

OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/32.1.0-beta1

7 months ago

Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)

https://github.com/chrisdiana/TinyCity

7 months ago

Nepal's Mountainside Teahouses Elevate the Experience for Trekkers

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/nepal-mountainside-teahouses-elevate-experience-trekkers-heading-to-top-world-180987844/

7 months ago

All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible

https://mvr.github.io/posts/xs23.html

7 months ago

New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes

https://webkit.org/blog/17746/new-safari-developer-tools-provide-insight-into-css-grid-lanes/

7 months ago

The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up

https://investinglive.com/news/the-500000-ton-typo-why-data-center-copper-math-doesnt-add-up-20260113/

7 months ago

French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition

https://torrentfreak.com/french-court-orders-popular-vpns-to-block-more-pirate-sites-despite-opposition/

7 months ago

GitHub Incident

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/q987xpbqjbpl

7 months ago

Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode

https://www.righto.com/2025/12/8087-microcode-conditions.html

7 months ago

European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island's security

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/15/g-s1-106113/european-troops-arrive-greenland

7 months ago

Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley

https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-declared-war-against-big-tech-digital-sovereignty/

7 months ago

One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE

https://www.404media.co/how-one-guy-crowdsourced-more-than-500-dashcams-for-minneapolis-to-film-ice/

7 months ago

Increasing the performance of WebAssembly Text Format parser by 350%

https://blog.gplane.win/posts/improve-wat-parser-perf.html

7 months ago

Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland

https://www.fmn.dk/en/news/2025/the-danish-armed-forces-expand-their-presence-and-continue-exercises-in-greenland-in-close-cooperation-with-allies/

7 months ago

European military personnel arrive in Greenland as Trump says US needs island

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0ydjvxpejo

7 months ago

Iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes

https://tangled.org/luthenwald.tngl.sh/splined

7 months ago

Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638331

7 months ago

Selling SaaS in Japan

https://embedworkflow.com/blog/what-saas-founders-should-know-about-entering-the-japanese-market/

7 months ago

Dutch experts warn US takeover of DigiD platform poses security risks

https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/15/dutch-experts-warn-us-takeover-digid-platform-poses-national-security-risks

7 months ago

Python: Tprof, a Targeting Profiler

https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/01/14/python-introducing-tprof/

7 months ago

Germany's Merz Admits Nuclear Exit Was Strategic Mistake

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/germanys-merz-admits-nuclear-exit-was-strategic-mistake-fzdlkn37c16

7 months ago

What Is a PC Compatible?

https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/what-is-a-pc-compatible/

7 months ago

U.S. carbon pollution rose in 2025, a reversal from prior years

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/us-carbon-pollution-rose-2025-reversal-rcna253859

7 months ago

Show HN: 1Code – open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code

https://github.com/21st-dev/1code

7 months ago

Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626639

7 months ago

ChatGPT wrote "Goodnight Moon" suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/chatgpt-wrote-goodnight-moon-suicide-lullaby-for-man-who-later-killed-himself/

7 months ago

Use of Bayesian methodology in clinical trials of drug and biological products [pdf]

https://www.fda.gov/media/190505/download

7 months ago

Vm0

https://github.com/vm0-ai/vm0

7 months ago

Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it

https://jayzalowitz.github.io/zucksharp/

7 months ago

I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

https://www.theverge.com/features/861968/year-using-linux

7 months ago