top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-23

Bugs Apple Loves

https://www.bugsappleloves.com

7 months ago

1117 upvotes – 537 comments

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/

7 months ago

1040 upvotes – 660 comments

European Alternatives

https://european-alternatives.eu

7 months ago

809 upvotes – 511 comments

Heathrow scraps liquid container limit

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evvx89559o

7 months ago

631 upvotes – 816 comments

Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/

7 months ago

556 upvotes – 424 comments

Ghostty's AI Policy

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

7 months ago

★ 51.6k Zig MIT
501 upvotes – 273 comments

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBCOEiqiPs

7 months ago

482 upvotes – 105 comments

Proof of Corn

https://proofofcorn.com/

7 months ago

474 upvotes – 307 comments

Unrolling the Codex Agent Loop

https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop/

7 months ago

456 upvotes – 208 comments

Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

https://maggieappleton.com/gastown

7 months ago

401 upvotes – 430 comments

Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/

7 months ago

355 upvotes – 119 comments

Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/tesla-wants-recurring-revenue-discontinues-autopilot-in-favor-of-fsd/

7 months ago

345 upvotes – 366 comments

There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

https://www.fastcompany.com/91477114/steve-wozniak-woz-apple-the-tech-interactive-humanitarian-award

7 months ago

326 upvotes – 156 comments

New YC homepage

https://www.ycombinator.com/

7 months ago

297 upvotes – 157 comments

Radicle: The Sovereign Forge

https://radicle.xyz

7 months ago

286 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere

7 months ago

★ 2.1k Go Apache-2.0
278 upvotes – 89 comments

Pandas 3.0

https://pandas.pydata.org/community/blog/pandas-3.0.html

7 months ago

269 upvotes – 118 comments

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer

https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/

7 months ago

263 upvotes – 112 comments

What Has Docker Become?

https://tuananh.net/2026/01/20/what-has-docker-become/

7 months ago

262 upvotes – 286 comments

Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731068

7 months ago

259 upvotes – 68 comments

Microsoft Mishandling Example.com

https://tinyapps.org/blog/microsoft-mishandling-example-com.html

7 months ago

249 upvotes – 89 comments

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historically-inaccurate

7 months ago

248 upvotes – 154 comments

Tech Is Fun Again: The Tech Monoculture Is Finally Breaking

http://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2025/12/17/Tech-Is-Fun-Again/

7 months ago

245 upvotes – 337 comments

Zotero 8

https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/

7 months ago

244 upvotes – 59 comments

Banned C++ Features in Chromium

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/styleguide/c++/c++-features.md

7 months ago

242 upvotes – 262 comments

Google is ending full-web search for niche search engines

https://programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com/

7 months ago

235 upvotes – 191 comments

Claude.ai silently failing since Jan 14, no official acknowledgment

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866

7 months ago

★ 118k Shell
189 upvotes – 176 comments

Why talking to LLMs has improved my thinking

https://philipotoole.com/why-talking-to-llms-has-improved-my-thinking/

7 months ago

184 upvotes – 146 comments

Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster

https://pgdog.dev/blog/replace-protobuf-with-rust

7 months ago

182 upvotes – 129 comments

Maze Algorithms (2017)

http://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/

7 months ago

181 upvotes – 38 comments

Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle

https://geometrycode.com/free/how-to-graphically-derive-the-golden-ratio-using-an-equilateral-triangle-inscribed-in-a-circle/

7 months ago

173 upvotes – 64 comments

The Lost Art of XML

https://marcosmagueta.com/blog/the-lost-art-of-xml/

7 months ago

165 upvotes – 169 comments

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

https://blog.cloudflare.com/route-leak-incident-january-22-2026/

7 months ago

165 upvotes – 62 comments

I Overengineered a Spinning Top

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp5NodfvvF4

7 months ago

156 upvotes – 51 comments

The threat eating away at museum treasures

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-extremophile-molds-are-destroying-museum-artifacts/

7 months ago

151 upvotes – 73 comments

TikTok Is Now Collecting More Data About Its Users

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/

7 months ago

143 upvotes – 110 comments

The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-mysterious-pattern-math-and-nature-converge-20130205/

7 months ago

142 upvotes – 54 comments

White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce9yydgmzdvt

7 months ago

133 upvotes – 79 comments

U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization.html

7 months ago

129 upvotes – 161 comments

Stunnel

https://www.stunnel.org/

7 months ago

124 upvotes – 36 comments

Mental Models (2018)

https://fs.blog/mental-models/

7 months ago

124 upvotes – 23 comments

USA Exits WHO

https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/united-states-completes-who-withdrawal.html

7 months ago

119 upvotes – 39 comments

White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/nekima-armstrong-photo-white-house.html

7 months ago

118 upvotes – 47 comments

Where to Sleep in Lax

https://cadence.moe/blog/2025-12-30-where-to-sleep-in-lax

7 months ago

117 upvotes – 87 comments

House Vote Keeps Federal "Kill Switch" Vehicle Mandate

https://reclaimthenet.org/house-vote-keeps-federal-kill-switch-vehicle-mandat

7 months ago

115 upvotes – 159 comments

Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit

https://www.righto.com/2026/01/notes-on-intel-8086-processors.html

7 months ago

110 upvotes – 14 comments

I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)

https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/i-found-the-perfect-yearly-calendar-for-me

7 months ago

106 upvotes – 41 comments

Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes

https://www.compyle.ai/blog/nobody-likes-lag/

7 months ago

105 upvotes – 45 comments

Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be

https://www.avraam.dev/blog/system-language-corollary

7 months ago

104 upvotes – 128 comments

The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users

https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html

7 months ago

102 upvotes – 47 comments

EmulatorJS

https://github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS

7 months ago

★ 3.7k JavaScript GPL-3.0
101 upvotes – 16 comments

Why I Don't Have Fun With Claude Code

https://brennan.io/2026/01/23/claude-code/

7 months ago

95 upvotes – 93 comments

Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG

https://markgascoyne.co.uk/posts/ebpf-bng/

7 months ago

94 upvotes – 26 comments

DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data

https://blog.quintarelli.it/2026/01/how-doge-improperly-accessed-and-shared-social-security-data-npr/

7 months ago

92 upvotes – 41 comments

The Enchiridion by Epictetus

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45109/45109-h/45109-h.htm

7 months ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld

https://huggingface.co/blog/waypoint-1

7 months ago

91 upvotes – 20 comments

In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?

https://thinkygames.com/features/in-a-genre-where-information-is-sacred-and-spoilers-are-devastating-how-do-we-talk-about-puzzle-games/

7 months ago

87 upvotes – 106 comments

Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r44zpprg7o

7 months ago

82 upvotes – 113 comments

Presence in Death

https://rubinmuseum.org/presence-in-death/

7 months ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

The Chemistry of Tea [pdf]

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Harbowy/publication/216792045_Tea_Chemistry/links/0912f4fb863f786725000000/Tea-Chemistry.pdf

7 months ago

81 upvotes – 29 comments

Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI – Windows Developer Blog

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/01/22/announcing-winapp-the-windows-app-development-cli/

7 months ago

80 upvotes – 102 comments

BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023)

https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries/

7 months ago

74 upvotes – 64 comments
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