top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-18

jQuery 4.0.0 Released

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

1 month ago

809 upvotes – 296 comments

Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky Helicopter Music Video

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

1 month ago

772 upvotes – 260 comments

Dead Internet Theory

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

1 month ago

694 upvotes – 698 comments

The A in AGI Stands for Ads

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

1 month ago

584 upvotes – 530 comments

Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

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

1 month ago

572 upvotes – 60 comments

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/

1 month ago

542 upvotes – 528 comments

App Subscription is now my Weekend Project

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

1 month ago

539 upvotes – 374 comments

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

1 month ago

514 upvotes – 498 comments

A Social Filesystem

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

1 month ago

509 upvotes – 238 comments

Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

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

1 month ago

451 upvotes – 141 comments

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

1 month ago

407 upvotes – 276 comments

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

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

1 month ago

382 upvotes – 121 comments

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

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

1 month ago

308 upvotes – 294 comments

The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable

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

1 month ago

298 upvotes – 229 comments

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

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

1 month ago

276 upvotes – 262 comments

Spirit of ThinkPad

https://thinknextdesign.com/home.html

1 month ago

260 upvotes – 138 comments

Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills

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

1 month ago

230 upvotes – 286 comments

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

1 month ago

226 upvotes – 87 comments

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

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

1 month ago

216 upvotes – 40 comments

Prediction: Microsoft Is Going to Do the Funniest Thing Imaginable

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

1 month ago

196 upvotes – 262 comments

200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/200-mb-ram-freebsd-desktop/

1 month ago

195 upvotes – 207 comments

Profession by Isaac Asimov

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php

1 month ago

193 upvotes – 75 comments

Consent-O-Matic

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

1 month ago

192 upvotes – 99 comments

Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky)

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/07/sins-of-the-children

1 month ago

190 upvotes – 88 comments

Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopado%C2%ADtemacho%C2%ADselacho%C2%ADgaleo%C2%ADkranio%C2%ADleipsano%C2%ADdrim%C2%ADhypo%C2%ADtrimmato%C2%ADsilphio%C2%ADkarabo%C2%ADmelito%C2%ADkatakechy%C2%ADmeno%C2%ADkichl%C2%ADepi%C2%ADkossypho%C2%ADphatto%C2%ADperister%C2%ADalektryon%C2%ADopte%C2%ADkephallio%C2%ADkigklo%C2%ADpeleio%C2%ADlagoio%C2%ADsiraio%C2%ADbaphe%C2%ADtragano%C2%ADpterygon

1 month ago

187 upvotes – 93 comments

What Is Plan 9?

https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1

1 month ago

183 upvotes – 125 comments

Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss

https://getdock.io/

1 month ago

177 upvotes – 158 comments

Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

https://beats.lasagna.pizza

1 month ago

160 upvotes – 48 comments

Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup

https://cua.ai/docs/lume/guide/getting-started/introduction

1 month ago

152 upvotes – 44 comments

Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer

https://www.tuned.org.uk/posts/013_the_topological_transformer_training_tauformer

1 month ago

144 upvotes – 58 comments

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

1 month ago

133 upvotes – 26 comments

Keeping 20k GPUs Healthy

https://modal.com/blog/gpu-health

1 month ago

130 upvotes – 61 comments

U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-order-against-annas-archive-spells-more-trouble-for-the-site/

1 month ago

126 upvotes – 75 comments

Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74v0pxg2nvo

1 month ago

125 upvotes – 112 comments

How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery

https://www.anthropic.com/news/accelerating-scientific-research

1 month ago

124 upvotes – 75 comments

MIT's Computer Systems Security (2024)

https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2024/

1 month ago

123 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

https://github.com/dannote/figma-use

1 month ago

115 upvotes – 37 comments

EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-mercosur-countries-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal/a-75545794

1 month ago

115 upvotes – 173 comments

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

1 month ago

106 upvotes – 99 comments

Batmobile: 10-20x Faster CUDA Kernels for Equivariant Graph Neural Networks

https://elliotarledge.com/blog/batmobile

1 month ago

92 upvotes – 11 comments

Pentagon readies 1,500 troops to possibly deploy to Minnesota, US media say

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-readies-1500-soldiers-possibly-deploy-minnesota-washington-post-reports-2026-01-18/

1 month ago

88 upvotes – 46 comments

Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/business/crafting-soars-ai-analog-wellness

1 month ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram (2018)

https://medium.com/lapsed-historian/breaking-the-zimmermann-telegram-b34ed1d73614

1 month ago

85 upvotes – 6 comments

Gold Fever Cold and the True Adventures of Jack London in the Wild

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gold-fever-deadly-cold-and-amazing-true-adventures-jack-london-wild-180973316/

1 month ago

82 upvotes – 31 comments
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