top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-20

Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries

https://www.reuters.com/business/danish-pension-fund-divest-its-us-treasuries-2026-01-20/

3 months ago

776 upvotes – 804 comments

Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/

3 months ago

645 upvotes – 724 comments

De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance?

https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/global-research/currencies/de-dollarization

3 months ago

629 upvotes – 843 comments

I'm Addicted to Being Useful

https://www.seangoedecke.com/addicted-to-being-useful/

3 months ago

602 upvotes – 309 comments

The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight

https://longnow.org/ideas/the-26000-year-astronomical-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight/

3 months ago

565 upvotes – 112 comments

The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button

https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/

3 months ago

525 upvotes – 334 comments

Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe in 2025 Than Pure Gas-Powered Cars

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2026/company/porsche-deliveries-2025-41516.html

3 months ago

473 upvotes – 728 comments

AI Is a Horse (2024)

https://kconner.com/2024/08/02/ai-is-a-horse.html

3 months ago

467 upvotes – 234 comments

Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691243

3 months ago

460 upvotes – 452 comments

California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-09/california-has-no-areas-of-dryness-first-time-in-25-years

3 months ago

457 upvotes – 260 comments

Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction

https://entropicthoughts.com/nvidia-stock-crash-prediction

3 months ago

454 upvotes – 373 comments

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unconventional-optimizations

3 months ago

429 upvotes – 68 comments

The Hidden Engineering of Runways

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/1/20/the-hidden-engineering-of-runways

3 months ago

409 upvotes – 101 comments

Nova Launcher Added Facebook and Google Ads Tracking

https://lemdro.id/post/lemdro.id/35049920

3 months ago

405 upvotes – 210 comments

When employees feel slighted, they work less

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-wharton-when-employees-feel-slighted-they-work-less

3 months ago

352 upvotes – 256 comments

Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)

https://blog.emilburzo.com/2026/01/running-claude-code-dangerously-safely/

3 months ago

349 upvotes – 258 comments

IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT

https://www.johnmaguire.me/blog/ipv6-is-not-insecure-because-it-lacks-nat/

3 months ago

316 upvotes – 572 comments

Internet Archive's Storage

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/01/internet-archives-storage.html

3 months ago

293 upvotes – 90 comments

Meta's Legal Team Abandoned Its Ethical Duties

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/how-metas-lawyers-perfected-the-playbook

3 months ago

271 upvotes – 214 comments

The challenges of soft delete

https://atlas9.dev/blog/soft-delete.html

3 months ago

264 upvotes – 152 comments
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