top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-18

jQuery 4.0.0 Released

https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/

7 months ago

Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky Helicopter Music Video

https://radiancefields.com/a-ap-rocky-releases-helicopter-music-video-featuring-gaussian-splatting

7 months ago

Dead Internet Theory

https://kudmitry.com/articles/dead-internet-theory/

7 months ago

The A in AGI Stands for Ads

https://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/openads

7 months ago

Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

https://icon-sets.iconify.design/

7 months ago

Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

https://www.presidentti.fi/statement-by-denmark-finland-france-germany-the-netherlands-norway-sweden-and-the-united-kingdom-englanniksi/

7 months ago

App Subscription is now my Weekend Project

https://rselbach.com/your-sub-is-now-my-weekend-project

7 months ago

America is slow-walking into a Polymarket disaster

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/america-is-slow-walking-into-a-polymarket-disaster/ar-AA1Upfdb

7 months ago

A Social Filesystem

https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem/

7 months ago

Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c

7 months ago

Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html

7 months ago

Police Invested Millions in Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software Won't Say How Used

https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-police-invest-tangles-sheriff-surveillance/

7 months ago

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

https://twitter.com/neelsomani/status/2012695714187325745

7 months ago

The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable

https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/the-nobel-prize-and-the-laureate-are-inseparable

7 months ago

At least 21 killed in Spain after crash involving high-speed trains

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedw6ylpynyo

7 months ago

Spirit of ThinkPad

https://thinknextdesign.com/home.html

7 months ago

Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills

https://www.qu8n.com/posts/most-important-software-engineering-skill-2026

7 months ago

Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/statement-by-denmark-finland-france-germany-the-netherlands-norway-sweden-and-the-united-kingdom-2403016

7 months ago

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053099/19c2e8180aeb0438/

7 months ago

Prediction: Microsoft Is Going to Do the Funniest Thing Imaginable

https://gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/microsoft/

7 months ago