top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-16

STFU

https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu

7 months ago

1032 upvotes – 600 comments

Astro Joining Cloudflare

https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/

7 months ago

957 upvotes – 392 comments

East Germany balloon escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape

7 months ago

722 upvotes – 302 comments

Cursor's latest "browser experiment" implied success without evidence

https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/

7 months ago

721 upvotes – 309 comments

Just the Browser

https://justthebrowser.com/

7 months ago

560 upvotes – 258 comments

Scott Alexander: The Dilbert Afterlife

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-dilbert-afterlife

7 months ago

545 upvotes – 385 comments

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability

7 months ago

505 upvotes – 280 comments

Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

https://electrek.co/2026/01/16/canada-breaks-with-us-slashes-100-tariffs-chinese-evs/

7 months ago

452 upvotes – 594 comments

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619

7 months ago

408 upvotes – 57 comments

Michelangelo's First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html

7 months ago

371 upvotes – 172 comments

List of Individual Trees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees

7 months ago

368 upvotes – 116 comments

Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly56w0p9e1o

7 months ago

343 upvotes – 177 comments

Slop Is Everywhere for Those with Eyes to See

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/

7 months ago

323 upvotes – 137 comments

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/

7 months ago

309 upvotes – 119 comments

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories

7 months ago

289 upvotes – 358 comments

Interactive eBPF

https://ebpf.party/

7 months ago

274 upvotes – 9 comments

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/

7 months ago

272 upvotes – 239 comments

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux2-klein-towards-interactive-visual-intelligence

7 months ago

227 upvotes – 58 comments

LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet

https://social.kernel.org/notice/B2JlhcxNTfI8oDVoyO

7 months ago

200 upvotes – 128 comments

I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool

https://evanhahn.com/i-set-all-376-vim-options-and-im-still-a-fool/

7 months ago

187 upvotes – 134 comments
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