top 50% hacker news stories for today

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

https://calquio.com

2 hours ago

21 upvotes – 19 comments

YouTube is silently deleting uploaded SRV3 (styled) subtitles

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1qdvgmc/uploading_srv3_subtitles_got_brokendisabled/

2 hours ago

16 upvotes – 4 comments

High-speed train crash in southern Spain leaves at least 21 dead

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/18/high-speed-train-crash-in-adamuz-cordoba-southern-spain

1 hour ago

11 upvotes – 1 comments

In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/minneapolis-federal-agents-misconduct-protesters.html

22 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 2 comments

Pre-Agent Nostalgia

https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/pre-coding-agent-nostalgia/

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 4 comments

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (NeurIPS 2025)

https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/why-reinforcement-learning-plateaus-without-representation-depth-and-other

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

jQuery 4.0.0 Released

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

22 hours ago

734 upvotes – 242 comments

Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

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

20 hours ago

509 upvotes – 56 comments

The A in AGI Stands for Ads

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

12 hours ago

494 upvotes – 425 comments

Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky Helicopter Music Video

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

9 hours ago

483 upvotes – 162 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/

10 hours ago

440 upvotes – 466 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

18 hours ago

317 upvotes – 215 comments

A Social Filesystem

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

18 hours ago

301 upvotes – 140 comments

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

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

23 hours ago

293 upvotes – 275 comments

The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable

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

10 hours ago

276 upvotes – 215 comments

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

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

6 hours ago

252 upvotes – 74 comments

Flux 2 Klein pure C inference

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

9 hours ago

242 upvotes – 101 comments

Spirit of ThinkPad

https://thinknextdesign.com/home.html

20 hours ago

241 upvotes – 115 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

9 hours ago

188 upvotes – 80 comments

Consent-O-Matic

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

17 hours ago

181 upvotes – 95 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

23 hours ago

178 upvotes – 87 comments

Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills

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

13 hours ago

177 upvotes – 211 comments

Profession by Isaac Asimov

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

1 day ago

174 upvotes – 57 comments

A free and open-source rootkit for Linux

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

17 hours ago

171 upvotes – 35 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

8 hours ago

165 upvotes – 175 comments

What Is Plan 9?

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

13 hours ago

164 upvotes – 83 comments

Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer

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

15 hours ago

125 upvotes – 35 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/

23 hours ago

119 upvotes – 63 comments

Sins of the Children (Adrian Tchaikovsky)

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

9 hours ago

119 upvotes – 58 comments

MIT's Computer Systems Security (2024)

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

1 day ago

116 upvotes – 17 comments

How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery

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

23 hours ago

112 upvotes – 73 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

16 hours ago

109 upvotes – 156 comments

Dead Internet Theory

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

6 hours ago

103 upvotes – 111 comments

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

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

21 hours ago

99 upvotes – 36 comments

Prediction: Microsoft Is Going to Do the Funniest Thing Imaginable

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

3 hours ago

95 upvotes – 94 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

95 upvotes – 24 comments

Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis

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

7 hours ago

94 upvotes – 84 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/

17 hours ago

84 upvotes – 42 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

12 hours ago

81 upvotes – 78 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

8 hours ago

73 upvotes – 44 comments

Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram (2018)

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

7 hours ago

71 upvotes – 4 comments

How the Lobsters front page works

https://atharvaraykar.com/lobsters/

9 hours ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/dark-mode/

1 day ago

65 upvotes – 64 comments

Iran report says 16,500 dead in 'genocide under digital darkness'

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-young-protesters-news-nsdztp5t2

14 hours ago

65 upvotes – 51 comments

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

https://getdock.io/

6 hours ago

62 upvotes – 49 comments

Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/reasons-to-stop-using-mysql/

10 hours ago

61 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine

https://github.com/Loretta1982/xenia

16 hours ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-walls-are-closing-in-on-tesla

18 hours ago

60 upvotes – 90 comments
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