top 20 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

Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry

https://www.science.org/content/article/nearly-third-social-media-research-has-undisclosed-ties-industry-preprint-claims

7 months ago

Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

https://calquio.com

7 months ago

Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/01/article-article-how-big-tech-shaped-eus-roll-back-digital-rights

7 months ago

The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs

https://sean.heelan.io/2026/01/18/on-the-coming-industrialisation-of-exploit-generation-with-llms/

7 months ago

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture

https://jon.bo/posts/nano-texture/

7 months ago

Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive to Access Books

https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-secure-access-to-millions-of-pirated-books/

7 months ago

Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup

7 months ago

Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs

https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang

7 months ago

The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets

https://www.jbecker.dev/research/prediction-market-microstructure

7 months ago

San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-coyote-alcatraz-21302218.php

7 months ago