top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-22

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

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

7 months ago

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

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

7 months ago

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

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

7 months ago

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

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

7 months ago

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

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

7 months ago

In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels

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

7 months ago

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

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

7 months ago

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

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

7 months ago

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/

7 months ago

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/

7 months ago

Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users

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

7 months ago

Design Thinking Books You Must Read

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

7 months ago

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

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

7 months ago

Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

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

7 months ago

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

7 months ago

Significant US Farm Losses Persist, Despite Federal Assistance

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

7 months ago

30 Years of ReactOS

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

7 months ago

Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers

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

7 months ago

SVG Path Editor

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

7 months ago

CSS Optical Illusions

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

7 months ago

'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/2010/05/askers-vs-guessers/340891/

7 months ago

White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/white-house-ice-protest-arrest-altered-image

7 months ago

Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1qjtvtl/macron_says_300_billion_in_european_savings_flown/

7 months ago

ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss

https://pdfa.org/want-to-make-your-pdfs-20-smaller-for-free/

7 months ago

From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown

https://www.kentik.com/blog/from-stealth-blackout-to-whitelisting-inside-the-iranian-shutdown/

7 months ago

Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI"

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/

7 months ago

Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params)

https://huggingface.co/collections/Linum-AI/linum-v2-2b-text-to-video

7 months ago

Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adt7790

7 months ago

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

https://www.swift.org/blog/improving-usability-of-c-libraries-in-swift/

7 months ago

The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people

7 months ago

Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives

https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-january-2026-report

7 months ago

'Active' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies

https://www.sciencealert.com/not-all-sitting-is-equal-one-type-was-just-linked-to-better-brain-health

7 months ago

Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6200g826d2o

7 months ago

Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs Appointed Lieutenant Colonels in US Army

https://twitter.com/SecArmy/status/1933693585183965372

7 months ago

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alaska-student-arrested-eating-ai-art-exhibit/

7 months ago

In Praise of APL (1977)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis77.htm

7 months ago

Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market

https://pillser.com/

7 months ago

Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/browseros-ai/BrowserOS

7 months ago

Miami, Your Waymo Ride Is Ready

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/01/miami-your-waymo-ride-is-ready

7 months ago

I'll pass on your zoom call.

https://operand.online/chronicle/pass.zoom

7 months ago

Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?)

https://ilanbigio.com/blog/lyft-bikes.html

7 months ago

Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era

https://walters.app/blog/composing-apis-clis

7 months ago

You can now download Windows 7 and Vista ISO images with all the updates

https://www.neowin.net/news/you-can-now-download-windows-7-and-vista-iso-images-with-every-possible-update-included/

7 months ago

Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing

https://zuernerd.github.io/blog/2026/01/07/switch-password.html

7 months ago

SpaceX lowering orbits of 4,400 Starlink satellites for safety's sake

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/spacex-lowering-orbits-of-4-400-starlink-satellites-for-safetys-sake

7 months ago

I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21

https://elliot.my/im-34-heres-34-things-i-wish-i-knew-at-21/

7 months ago

Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%

https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/22/denver-downtown-office-vacancy-rate-tenants-workplace/

7 months ago

Bluementhals letter about ICE memo justifying entry into homes without warrant [pdf]

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026-01-21-Letter-from-Blumenthal-to-DHS-ICE.pdf

7 months ago