top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-16

STFU

https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu

7 months ago

Astro Joining Cloudflare

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

7 months ago

East Germany balloon escape

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

7 months ago

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

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

7 months ago

Just the Browser

https://justthebrowser.com/

7 months ago

Scott Alexander: The Dilbert Afterlife

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

7 months ago

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

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

7 months ago

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

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

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

7 months ago

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

List of Individual Trees

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

7 months ago

Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash

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

7 months ago

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

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

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

7 months ago

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

Interactive eBPF

https://ebpf.party/

7 months ago

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT

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

7 months ago

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

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

7 months ago

LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet

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

7 months ago

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

America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan–but our zoning laws [prevent that]

https://abio.substack.com/p/america-could-have-4-lunch-bowls

7 months ago

On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/crisis/crisis.pdf

7 months ago

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate protocol deprecation

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/net-ntlmv1-deprecation-rainbow-tables

7 months ago

Dev-Owned Testing: Why It Fails in Practice and Succeeds in Theory

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3780063.3780066

7 months ago

My Gripes with Prolog

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/my-gripes-with-prolog/

7 months ago

Letting Claude Play Text Adventures

https://borretti.me/article/letting-claude-play-text-adventures

7 months ago

Reading across books with Claude Code

https://pieterma.es/syntopic-reading-claude/

7 months ago

Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience

https://git.qt.io/cradam/fil-qt

7 months ago

Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053142/8ec93e58d5d3cc06/

7 months ago

British redcoat's lost memoir reveals harsh realities of life as a disabled vet

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-british-redcoat-lost-memoir-reveals.html

7 months ago

Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news

https://raulnegron.me/2025/wii-news-pr/

7 months ago

San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230000

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/san-francisco-childcare-families

7 months ago

Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/install-md-standard-for-llm-executable-installation

7 months ago

psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context

https://github.com/loresuso/psc

7 months ago

ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-crackdown-25e46910fcc62fbf5ab341905af9891c

7 months ago

Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/unikernels-intro-93976514

7 months ago

Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/16/can-you-disable-spotlight-and-siri-in-macos-tahoe/

7 months ago

RTS for Agents

https://www.getagentcraft.com/

7 months ago

SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others

https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/12/for-21-years-enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-uc-berkeley-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found/

7 months ago

Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843883

7 months ago

Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

https://theweek.com/world-news/greenland-natural-resources-impossible-mine

7 months ago

The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly

https://buildsoftwaresystems.com/post/guide-to-execution-environments/

7 months ago

Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness for building reliable AI agents

https://github.com/bolt-foundry/gambit

7 months ago

Graphics In Flatland – 2D ray tracing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYTOykSqf2Y

7 months ago

Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses

https://www.core-mba.pro/

7 months ago

AI Destroys Institutions

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5870623

7 months ago

Show HN: Reversing YouTube’s “Most Replayed” Graph

https://priyavr.at/blog/reversing-most-replayed/

7 months ago

How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster

https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/

7 months ago

Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains

https://www.shimmer.care/indy-redirect

7 months ago

Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python

https://aljamal.substack.com/p/golfing-aplk-in-90-lines-of-python

7 months ago

Gladys West's vital contributions to GPS technology

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

7 months ago

Left in the cold: Study finds most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/6011/left-in-the-cold-study-finds-most-renters-shut-out-of-energy-saving-upgrades

7 months ago

Cyberattack in Venezuela Demonstrated Precision of U.S. Capabilities

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/cyberattack-venezuela-military.html

7 months ago

ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ads-openai-2026-1

7 months ago

The GDB JIT Interface

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/gdb-jit/

7 months ago

The Dilbert Afterlife (By Scott Alexander)

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

7 months ago

Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/

7 months ago

OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/open-ai-chatgpt-ads-us.html

7 months ago

Cloudflare threatens Italy exit over €14M fine

https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/cloudflare-threatens-italy-exit-over-14m-fine

7 months ago

The Myth of the ThinkPad

https://innovintageblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/the-myth-of-the-thinkpad/

7 months ago