top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-22

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/

1 week ago

1324 upvotes – 241 comments

We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

https://curl.se/.well-known/security.txt

1 week ago

947 upvotes – 616 comments

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/

1 week ago

936 upvotes – 506 comments

I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file

https://hugodaniel.com/posts/claude-code-banned-me/

1 week ago

748 upvotes – 636 comments

Qwen3-TTS Family Is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115

1 week ago

742 upvotes – 225 comments

In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-wind-solar-fossil-fuels

1 week ago

716 upvotes – 778 comments

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke/

1 week ago

661 upvotes – 362 comments

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/

1 week ago

554 upvotes – 567 comments

Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/01/16/internet-voting-is-insecure-and-should-not-be-used-in-public-elections/

1 week ago

440 upvotes – 509 comments

Capital One to buy fintech firm Brex in $5.15B deal

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/capital-one-buy-fintech-firm-brex-515-billion-deal-2026-01-22/

1 week ago

387 upvotes – 358 comments

Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users

https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql/

1 week ago

346 upvotes – 136 comments

Design Thinking Books You Must Read

https://www.designorate.com/design-thinking-books/

1 week ago

307 upvotes – 143 comments

It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16728

1 week ago

302 upvotes – 81 comments

Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

https://www.jamf.com/blog/threat-actors-expand-abuse-of-visual-studio-code/

1 week ago

290 upvotes – 301 comments

Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/brazilian-city-uses-tilapia-fish-skin-treat-burn-victims

1 week ago

288 upvotes – 84 comments

Significant US Farm Losses Persist, Despite Federal Assistance

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/significant-farm-losses-persist-despite-federal-assistance

1 week ago

284 upvotes – 409 comments

30 Years of ReactOS

https://reactos.org/blogs/30yrs-of-ros/

1 week ago

273 upvotes – 198 comments

Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/

1 week ago

264 upvotes – 69 comments

SVG Path Editor

https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/

1 week ago

252 upvotes – 43 comments

CSS Optical Illusions

https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68091/css-optical-illusions

1 week ago

224 upvotes – 20 comments
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