top 50% 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

The Microstructure of Wealth Transfer in Prediction Markets

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

7 months ago

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

https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang

7 months ago

San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz

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

7 months ago

Some C habits I employ for the modern day

https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/c-habits-for-me.html

7 months ago

There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers

https://www.howtogeek.com/theres-a-hidden-android-setting-that-spots-fake-cell-towers/

7 months ago

Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds

https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/americans-are-the-ones-paying-for-tariffs-study-finds-e254ed2e

7 months ago

Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)

https://pdfwithlove.netlify.app

7 months ago

3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup

https://www.ntietz.com/blog/3d-printing-my-laptop-ergonomic-setup/

7 months ago

Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678550

7 months ago

Are Arrays Functions?

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-01-16-are-arrays-functions.html

7 months ago

Simple Sabotage Field Manual [pdf]

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

7 months ago

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/

7 months ago

Fix Your Robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google

https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/37/wa/jz/s1/

7 months ago

US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates

https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Pentagon-Places-1500-Arctic-Trained-Airborne-Troops-on-Standby-as-Greenland-Dispute-Escalates/

7 months ago

The Code-Only Agent

https://rijnard.com/blog/the-code-only-agent

7 months ago

Nonviolence

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/nonviolence

7 months ago

I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

https://blog.silennai.com/claude-code

7 months ago

"Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?"

https://twitter.com/beneater/status/2012988790709928305

7 months ago

Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite

https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso

7 months ago

Bypassing Gemma and Qwen safety with raw strings

https://teendifferent.substack.com/p/apply_chat_template-is-the-safety

7 months ago

Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt

https://www.seanmuirhead.com/blog/targeted-bets

7 months ago

CSS Web Components for marketing sites

https://hawkticehurst.com/2024/11/css-web-components-for-marketing-sites/

7 months ago

Greenland Crisis

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

7 months ago

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs

https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

7 months ago

Trump Links Greenland Threats to Nobel Peace Prize Snub

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-19/trump-links-greenland-threats-to-nobel-peace-prize-snub

7 months ago

Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast

https://research.swtch.com/fp

7 months ago

Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel

https://pipenet.dev/

7 months ago

West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/copper_chief_cops_it_after/

7 months ago

SIMD Programming in Pure Rust

https://kerkour.com/introduction-rust-simd

7 months ago

Beowulf's opening "What" is no interjection

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetry-news/69208/new-research-opening-line-of-beowulf-is-not-what-weve-eternally-thunk

7 months ago

Cows Can Use Sophisticated Tools

https://nautil.us/the-far-side-had-it-all-wrong-cows-really-can-use-sophisticated-tools-1262026/

7 months ago

Traintrackr – Live LED Maps

https://www.traintrackr.co.uk/

7 months ago

Anthropic disabled my account after payment cancer patient/medical data trapped

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675740

7 months ago

Starlink users must opt out of all browsing data being used to train xAI models

https://twitter.com/cryps1s/status/2013345999826153943

7 months ago

Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties

7 months ago

Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same

https://subth.ink/

7 months ago

How I Became a Quant [pdf]

https://engineering.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/2021-10/How_I_Became_a_Quant%20%281%29.pdf

7 months ago

MTOTP: Wouldn't it be nice if you were the 2FA device?

https://github.com/VBranimir/mTOTP/tree/develop

7 months ago

Use Social Media Mindfully

https://danielleheberling.xyz/blog/mindful-social-media/

7 months ago

There Is No Comfortable Reading Position

https://slate.com/life/2026/01/body-books-reading-position-posture-pain.html

7 months ago

Show HN: Interactive physics simulations I built while teaching my daughter

https://www.projectlumen.app/

7 months ago

Nuclear elements detected in West Philippine Sea

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/01/18/2501750/nuclear-elements-detected-west-philippine-sea

7 months ago

RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/milk-v-titan-mini-ix-board-with-ur-dp1000-processor-shows-risc-v-ecosystem-taking-shape-m-2-ddr4-and-pcie-card-support-form-a-kit-that-you-can-use-out-of-the-box

7 months ago

Trump's Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/

7 months ago

What it's like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/19/1131384/what-its-like-to-be-banned-from-the-us-for-fighting-online-hate/

7 months ago

US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g0zx0llpzo

7 months ago

CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod

https://www.patreon.com/posts/another-one-dust-148437771

7 months ago

Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000's of balls, in your terminal

https://github.com/minimaxir/ballin

7 months ago

Building Robust Helm Charts

https://www.willmunn.xyz/devops/helm/kubernetes/2026/01/17/building-robust-helm-charts.html

7 months ago

Writing First, Tooling Second

https://susam.net/writing-first-tooling-second.html

7 months ago

A Brief History of Ralph

https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/brief-history-of-ralph

7 months ago

/R/selfhosted limits vibecoded apps

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qfp2t0/mod_announcement_introducing_vibe_code_friday/

7 months ago