HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text (CommerceTXT). 24% smaller than JSON 0 4 4d +4d huggingface.co/datasets/tsazan/ikea-us-commercetxt 1Anthropic Made a Big Mistake 1 3 2h +2h archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropic 2Shopify CEO vibe codes an MRI viewer 2 12 28m +11m xcancel.com/tobi/status/2010438500609663110 3Ozempic reduced grocery spending by an average of 5.3% in the US 50 45 51m +26m news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buy 4Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions 2 16 54m +16m blog.gripdev.xyz/2026/01/10/actions-terminal-on-failure-for-debugging 5How to Build Reactive Declarative UI in Vanilla JavaScript 6 14 1h +58m jsdev.space/howto/reactive-vanilla-js 6Travel Is Not Education 30 31 5d +5d fi-le.net/travel 7Fossil versus Git 54 65 3h +1h fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki 8Show HN: DevicePrint – device fingerprinting without cookies 25 14 5d +5d 9Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native 9 10 3h +54m 10Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49 24 50 4h +1h bbc.com/news/articles/cj9r3zl2ywyo 11US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair 8 46 5h +2h theguardian.com/business/live/2026/jan/12/us-prosecutors-criminal-investigation-federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-dollar-stock-market-gold-bitcoin-business-live-news-updates 12XMPP and Metadata 3 32 5d +5d blog.mathieui.net/xmpp-and-metadata.html 13Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig 35 86 3h +28m lightpanda.io/blog/posts/migrating-our-dom-to-zig 14Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell 6 25 5d +5d github.com/ibehnam/shellock 15Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios 35 79 5d +5d conbini.kikkia.dev 16JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) 49 154 4d +4d openculture.com/2026/01/j-r-r-tolkien-reads-from-the-hobbit-for-30-minutes-1952.html 171% vs. 67%: What happened when we stopped trusting embeddings alone 7 16 5d +5d roampal.ai/blog-context-rot.html 18[dead] ? 24 9h +1h bloomberg.com 1939c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video] 64 155 3d +2d media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-house-electronics-manufacturing-from-scratch-how-hard-can-it-be 20Xfce is great 185 255 8h +37m rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great 21Pyinfra: Turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers 6 10 5d +5d github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra 22DOJ has subpoenaed central bank, threatens criminal indictment 12 34 9h +56m apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-trump-subpoena-bf4fc6c690fa248fbc531bc9bc7f1758 23Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn 117 137 10h +1h bbc.com/news/articles/clyndv7zd20o 24Show HN: An LLM-optimized programming language 24 39 10h +41m github.com/ImJasonH/ImJasonH/blob/main/articles/llm-programming-language.md 25The Taming of Collection Scans 0 6 4d +4d scylladb.com/2026/01/06/the-taming-of-collection-scans 26[dead] ? 33 9h +5m news.gallup.com 27Code is cheap now, but software isn't 53 116 10h +25m chrisgregori.dev/opinion/code-is-cheap-now-software-isnt 28Garbage collection is contrarian 12 55 2d +2d trynova.dev/blog/garbage-collection-is-contrarian 29Show HN: The Thiele Machine – Coq-Verified Computational Model Beyond Turing 1 7 10h +27m github.com/sethirus/The-Thiele-Machine 30Elephants Don't Play Chess (1990) [pdf] 3 9 3d +2d people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/elephants.pdf 31Show HN: Voice Composer – Browser-based pitch detection to MIDI/strudel/tidal 2 17 14h +3h dioptre.github.io/tidal 32Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video] 33 66 13h +2h youtube.com/watch?v=1reman2waLs 33Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication 2 10 5d +4d penguin.co.uk/books/468218/ping-by-brodsky-andrew/9780241746363 34Uncrossy 34 103 11h +57m uncrossy.com 35Which programming languages are most token-efficient? 71 100 11h +30m martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages-are-most-token-efficient 36Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser 14 48 3d +2d kushaldas.in/posts/introducing-ektupy.html 37A Glimpse into DexProtector 1 10 5d +4d romainthomas.fr/post/26-01-dexprotector 38Statement from Jerome Powell 541 646 12h +13m federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm 39Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome F. Powell [video] 4 349 12h +4m youtube.com/watch?v=KckGHaBLSn4 40Show HN: What if AI agents had Zodiac personalities? 14 27 13h +44m github.com/baturyilmaz/what-if-ai-agents-had-zodiac-personalities 41Rare Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard found 10 31 4d +4d bbc.com/news/articles/cr7jvj8d39eo 42Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon 21 101 5d +5d lesswrong.com/posts/u6Lacc7wx4yYkBQ3r/insights-into-claude-opus-4-5-from-pokemon 43Erich von Däniken has died 187 106 18h +4h daniken.com/en/startseite-english 44iMessage-kit is an iMessage SDK for macOS 7 23 15h +1h github.com/photon-hq/imessage-kit 45I'd tell you a UDP joke… 44 159 14h +16m codepuns.com/post/805294580859879424/i-would-tell-you-a-udp-joke-but-you-might-not-get 46I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine) 88 113 5d +4d soap.coffee/~lthms/posts/i-cannot-ssh-into-my-server-anymore.html 47The next two years of software engineering 188 189 15h +25m addyosmani.com/blog/next-two-years 48This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser 64 236 15h +6m iczelia.net/posts/snake-polyglot 49FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems 55 164 16h +1h jakobemmerling.de/posts/fuse-is-all-you-need 50Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018) 2 9 17h +1h figma.com/blog/desperately-seeking-squircles 51Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults 13 90 15h +10m 52Show HN: SpecificProxy – Proxy Using a Specific IP 2 8 16h +1h github.com/danthegoodman1/specificproxy 53A 2026 look at three bio-ML opinions I had in 2024 3 25 15h +35m owlposting.com/p/a-2026-look-at-three-bio-ml-opinions 54CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun 418 609 15h +29m fulghum.io/self-hosting 55Show HN: Chr2 – consensus for side effects (exactly-once is a lie) 0 8 16h +1h github.com/abokhalill/chr2 56Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL 29 96 5d +4d elo-lang.org 57DHS restricts congressional visits to ICE facilities in Minneapolis 29 99 16h +40m npr.org/2026/01/11/nx-s1-5673949/dhs-restricts-congressional-visits-to-ice-facilities-in-minneapolis-with-new-policy 58The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe 836 1986 16h +19m noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe 59BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech 257 206 16h +9m thedriven.io/2026/01/11/byds-cheapest-electric-cars-to-have-lidar-self-driving-tech 60American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop" 32 85 18h +1h americandialect.org/2025-word-of-the-year-is-slop 61I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video] 53 365 4d +3d youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMA 62Show HN: Interactive California Budget (by Claude Code) 1 32 20h +2h california-budget.com 63Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001) 14 66 1d +14h quaddicted.com/webarchive//teamshambler.planetquake.gamespy.com/theories1.html 64guys why does armenian completely break Claude 56 93 17h +36s twitter.com/dyushag/status/1993143599286886525 65Sampling at negative temperature 53 182 17h +32s cavendishlabs.org/blog/negative-temperature 66Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video] 159 253 3d +3d youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc 67Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage 51 54 1d +18h epstein.im 68Pigeon's Device (2009) 0 7 18h +1h pigeonsnest.co.ukhttp:///stuff/pigeons-device.html 69iCloud Photos Downloader 205 512 17h +25m github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader 70"Scholars Will Call It Nonsense": The Structure of von Däniken's Argument (1987) 6 60 17h +22m penn.museum/sites/expedition/scholars-will-call-it-nonsense 71China applies to put 200K satellites in space after calling Starlink crash risk 55 114 23h +5h scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3339493/china-applies-put-200000-satellites-space-after-calling-starlink-crash-risk 72Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned 160 295 18h +25m twitter.com/SIGKITTEN/status/2009697031422652461 73Markdown Emphasis Issues in CJK: Analyzing CommonMark's Delimiter Rules 1 12 6d +5d hackers.pub/@yurume/019b912a-cc3b-7e45-9227-d08f0d1eafe8 74Are We ... Yet? 9 39 18h +27m wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet 75Meta announces nuclear energy projects 306 261 18h +6m about.fb.com/news/2026/01/meta-nuclear-energy-projects-power-american-ai-leadership 76Poison Fountain 0 12 4d +3d rnsaffn.com/poison3 77A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go 23 132 4d +3d github.com/MedUnes/go-kata 78‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words 78 113 19h +30m daringfireball.net/2026/01/fuck_you_make_me_without_saying_the_words 79Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info 5 13 19h +13m theregister.com/2026/01/09/microsoft_windows_media_player_forgets 80Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026) 677 214 20h +1h 81Poison Fountain 129 220 20h +30m rnsaffn.com/poison3 82Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS 107 84 6d +5d gizmodo.com/dell-admits-it-made-a-huge-mistake-when-it-abandoned-xps-2000705053 83KaraDAV – Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server 8 45 1d +4h github.com/kd2org/karadav 84Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014) 28 69 20h +25m linux.com/training-tutorials/replace-retiring-windows-xp-linux 85Large Feeds and RFC 5005 1 6 5d +4d alexschroeder.ch/view/2025-09-10-large-feeds 86[dead] ? 12 21h +9m shipwreckedcrew.substack.com 87Learning from Sudoku Solvers (2007) 8 22 6d +5d ravimohan.blogspot.comhttp:///2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-solvers.html 88Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users 60 206 22h +19m engadget.com/cybersecurity/an-instagram-data-breach-reportedly-exposed-the-personal-info-of-175-million-users-192105616.html 89Show HN: Porting xv6 to HiFive Unmatched board 4 26 1d +1d github.com/eyengin/xv6-riscv-unmatched 90Happy 50th Birthday KIM-1 25 71 23h +33m github.com/netzherpes/KIM1-Demo 91Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries 1 18 5d +4d lareviewofbooks.org/article/outward-signs-of-inner-mysteries 92HTML-only conditional lazy loading (via preload and media) 20 96 1d +2h orga.cat/blog/html-conditional-lazy-loading 93BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5 13 84 1d +1h github.com/amcchord/M5Tab-Macintosh 94Show HN: Is AI hijacking your intent? A formal control algorithm to measure it 49 10 23h +8m 95Verifiable Brute Force Strength 1 9 6d +5d gist.github.com/atoponce/a7715930ae6eb7d6b487f2f76b57a68d 96Self-driving cars aren't nearly a solved problem 9 19 1d +1h strangecosmos.substack.com/p/self-driving-cars-arent-nearly-a 97Iran shuts down Starlink internet for first time 3 186 1d +20m forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/11/kill-switch-iran-shuts-down-starlink-internet-for-first-time 98Gentoo Linux 2025 Review 165 314 1d +1h gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/new-year.html 99LLM poetry and the "greatness" question: Experiments by Gwern and Mercor 2 27 1d +6m hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/llm-poetry-and-the-greatness-question 100Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs 44 77 1d +22m arstechnica.com/google/2026/01/google-dont-make-bite-sized-content-for-llms-if-you-care-about-search-rank 101“Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders 72 275 5d +4d sethmlarson.dev/food-jpegs-in-super-smash-bros-and-kirby-air-riders 102Think of Pavlov 49 100 1d +1h boz.com/articles/think-pavlov 103Why Selling WhatsApp to Facebook Would Be the Biggest Mistake (2012) 16 32 1d +30m forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/12/03/why-selling-whatsapp-to-facebook-would-be-the-biggest-mistake-of-jan-koums-and-brian-actons-lives 104I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too 751 804 1d +13m notebookcheck.net/I-dumped-Windows-11-for-Linux-and-you-should-too.1190961.0.html 105Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 1307 1072 1d +29m antirez.com/news/158 106Show HN: I built an Open Source screen timer for the m5stickc (Arduino) 0 17 5d +4d partridge.works/screenie-christmas-project-2025-26 107Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021) 56 167 1d +6h darkcephas.blogspot.com/2021/07/max-payne-two-decades-later-graphics.html 108You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML 207 158 2d +1d blog.novalistic.com/archives/2017/08/optional-end-tags-in-html 109Linus is vibe coding 3 57 1d +1h github.com/torvalds/AudioNoise 110More than one hundred years of Film Sizes 19 83 1d +30m wichm.home.xs4all.nl/filmsize.html 111C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories 207 239 3d +1d 0xghost.dev/blog/std-move-deep-dive 112Iran is likely jamming Starlink 224 111 1d +9m timesofisrael.com/iran-appears-to-jam-starlink-after-shutting-down-comms-networks 113Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users 30 122 5d +3d github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux 114I build products to get "unplugged" from the internet 10 29 1d +1h getunplugged.io/I-build-products-to-get-unplugged 115'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019) 34 83 6d +5d hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/black-mirror-bandersnatch-real-life-works-influences-1173330 116The Concise TypeScript Book 55 225 1d +15m github.com/gibbok/typescript-book 117Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework 27 43 1d +1h jsdev.space/meet-ripple 118Visual regression tests for personal blogs 11 40 5d +4d marending.dev/notes/visual-testing 119Show HN: PrintReadyBook 14 9 1d +1h printreadybook.com 120A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease 143 192 1d +18m bbc.com/news/articles/c623r47d67lo 121My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated 216 249 1d +40m alienchow.dev/post/fibre_disintegration 122An Experimental Approach to Printf in HLSL 4 38 5d +3d abolishcrlf.org//2025/12/31/Printf.html 123Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals 54 174 1d +47m fox13seattle.com/video/fmc-w1ga4pk97gxq0hj5 124Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load 16 40 1d +27m github.com/unhaya/vam-seek 125CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool 3 163 5d +3d blog.bugsiki.dev/posts/apple-pmu 126Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude 38 49 1d +1h github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claude-sisyphus 127Datadog, thank you for blocking us 30 75 2d +1d deductive.ai/blogs/datadog-thank-you-for-blocking-us 128MetaFun: Compile Haskell-like code to C++ template metaprograms 0 6 8d +7d gergo.erdi.hu/projects/metafun 129[dead] ? 21 1d +4m founderstowne.com 130A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project 28 96 1d +44m devblog.archlinux.page/2026/a-year-of-work-on-the-alpm-project 131Datadog, thank you for blocking us 1 36 1d +12m deductive.ai/blogs/datadog-thank-you-for-blocking-us 132Kodbox: Open-source cloud desktop with multi-storage fusion and web IDE 4 31 1d +1h github.com/kalcaddle/kodbox 133Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering 168 232 1d +28m github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite 134Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission 86 106 5d +3d modernretail.co/technology/brands-are-upset-that-buy-for-me-is-featuring-their-products-on-amazon-without-permission 135Bob Weir has died 22 142 1d +43m rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-weir-grateful-dead-dead-obituary-1234810106 136Show HN: mcpc – Universal command-line client for Model Context Protocol (MCP) 5 50 5d +4d github.com/apify/mcp-cli 137Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study 230 303 1d +30m brown.edu/news/2026-01-07/private-equity-autism-centers 138Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language 24 39 1d +15m 139 More... 2026.01.10