top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-01-19

Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff burden

https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/americas-own-goal-who-pays-the-tariffs-19398/

7 months ago

A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

https://bitchat.free/

7 months ago

Level S4 solar radiation event

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-levels-reached-19-jan-2026

7 months ago

Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results

https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/16/iphone-apple-app-store-search-results-ads-new-design/

7 months ago

Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees

https://www.ru.nl/en/staff/news/radboud-university-selects-fairphone-as-standard-smartphone-for-employees

7 months ago

Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026

https://twitter.com/ghhughes/status/2012824754319753456

7 months ago

Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.] (1963)

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

7 months ago

What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-record-order-dns-standards/

7 months ago

GLM-4.7-Flash

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash

7 months ago

Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

7 months ago