HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible 219 291 9d +9m docs.swifdroid.com/app 1[dead] ? 10 9d +10m warontherocks.com 2Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months 39 37 9d +2h voklit.com 3Determining Current Arm Cortex-M Security State with GDB 0 26 15d +6d danielmangum.com/posts/arm-cortex-m-security-state-gdb 4China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron 113 222 9d +10m ic-pcb.com/chinas-leading-dram-maker-cxmt-targets-42-billion-ipo-as-it-takes-on-samsung-sk-hynix-and-micron.html 5Comparing benefits of every-third-day vs. daily low-dose aspirin therapy (2001) 17 34 9d +11m pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11190906 6The Riven Diffs – Seeing Riven (1997) Differently 11 81 9d +5m glthr.com/the-riven-diffs-1 7Take One Small Step 31 146 9d +57m thinkhuman.com/take-one-small-step 8Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time 972 1509 9d +29m data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph 9Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026) 84 31 9d +32m 10Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models 15 83 9d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2510.25741 11Ed25519-CLI – command-line interface for the Ed25519 signature system (2024) 43 96 15d +6d lib25519.cr.yp.to/ed25519-cli.html 12[dead] ? 16 9d +3m karlsnotes.com 13Why your early 2000s photos are probably lost forever 71 43 15d +5d bbc.com/future/article/20251212-why-your-early-2000s-photos-are-probably-lost-forever 14Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time 58 112 9d +3h xr0.dev 15Doesnt: An Esoteric Programming Language 2 23 9d +1h lists.sr.ht/~rabbits/horadric/%3C5d708fd1-1c01-4fb6-a8e5-61213a1e88f8@sheeeeeeeep.art%3E 16Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone 83 76 9d +1h stetsonblake.com/%2425+Walmart+Phone+for+Hackers 17Busy Is the New Stupid 10 40 9d +1h cisotradecraft.com/bitns 18As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover 52 70 9d +1h science.org/content/article/deep-sea-mining-race-ramps-mission-will-assess-whether-ecosystems-recover-afterward 19Xsight Labs E1 DPU a 64-Core Arm Neoverse N2 800G DPU 6 17 9d +1h servethehome.com/this-is-the-xsight-labs-e1-dpu-a-64-core-arm-neoverse-n2-800g-dpu 20Experiments with Ableton-MCP 20 101 14d +4d jhurliman.org/post/804323197731373056/experiments-with-ableton-mcp-dec-2025 21Beating myself at chess 20 42 13d +4d log.schemescape.com/posts/diy/beating-myself-at-chess.html 22Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays 7 113 13d +3d myembeddedstuff.com/e-ink-spectra-6-color 23Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall 35 25 9d +31m pontozero.info/static/reddit-strip-mall 24Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 394 412 9d +19m neowin.net/news/report-microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-1110-without-internet/#google_vignette 252026 macro outlook – views across the street (synthesis 2026 outlook reports) 3 10 16d +6d 2026macro.vercel.app 26Bluesky is not the good place 74 62 9d +10m ms.now/opinion/bluesky-elon-musk-twitter-replacement 27Show HN: FP-pack – Functional pipelines in TypeScript without monads 16 14 9d +3h github.com/superlucky84/fp-pack 28Sirius DB 17 142 13d +3d sirius-db.com 29Show HN: Underpriced AI – Snap a photo, get instant resale value with AI 4 9 9d +42m underpricedai.com 30The C3 Programming Language 254 367 9d +17m c3-lang.org 31The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 132 672 9d +35m refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5 32[dead] ? 34 9d +27m 972mag.com 33World's largest functioning musical instrument: Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia 24 84 15d +5d en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamaker_Organ 34Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem 86 84 9d +24m totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/09/27/cardiovascular-disease-is-a-solved-problem 35Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on 78 55 9d +38m the-decoder.com/google-engineer-says-claude-code-built-in-one-hour-what-her-team-spent-a-year-on 36Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack 37 98 9d +8m corviont.com 37Ask HN: Expository/Succinct Books on Modern Physics 25 27 10d +9h 38Recursive Language Models 23 158 9d +4h arxiv.org/abs/2512.24601 39Hacking VBA to support native scripting runtime with no COM dependencies 10 24 16d +6d github.com/ECP-Solutions/ASF 40Quality Food Comes from Constraints 5 9 16d +6d gist.github.com/breadchris/00f64f3c26ebb9bccb7fd9d94be9d708 41Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024) 13 91 9d +2h yosefk.com/blog/profiling-with-ctrl-c.html 42ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Database Engineers 0 1 9d +28s paradedb.notion.site/?p=172ea4ce9deb80898ef5d5097bd65544&pm=s 43X-Clacks-Overhead 42 122 9d +2h hleb.dev/post/x-clacks-overhead 44Show HN: The ASCII Side of the Moon 2 23 14d +4d aleyan.com/projects/ascii-side-of-the-moon/?lat=32.72&lon=-117.16&date=2025-12-29T14%3A24Z 45Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s? 60 19 16d +6d 46Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions 82 90 9d +35m tallyai.money 47Not for human consumption 31 53 9d +2m vectorculture.substack.com/p/not-for-human-consumption 48[dead] ? 5 9d +3m phillipspobrien.substack.com 49How to Win Friends and Influence People: Unrevised Version 9 39 9d +42m socialskillswisdom.com 50Cadova: Swift DSL for parametric 3D modeling 34 91 12d +3d github.com/tomasf/Cadova 51Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic 153 180 9d +4m twitter.com/PenPizzaReport/status/2007347706017251535 52AI results can be manipulated 5 39 9d +1h ahrefs.com/blog/ai-vs-made-up-brand-experiment 53Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone 43 98 10d +5h github.com/lyehe/porterminal 54How Smell Guides Our Inner World 14 61 15d +5d quantamagazine.org/how-smell-guides-our-inner-world-20250703 55The Constitution Was a Coup 6 13 10d +2h lucasvance.github.io/2100/coup 56[dead] ? 11 9d +3m cbsnews.com 57Why 451 Is Good for You – Greylisting Perspectives from the Early Noughties 18 26 15d +5d bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-451-is-good-for-you-greylisting.html 58Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas 11 269 10d +3m theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/explosions-reported-venezuela-caracas 59At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas 2 45 10d +19m apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-explosions-caracas-ca712a67aaefc30b1831f5bf0b50665e 60Multiple explosions in Venezuela's capital Caracas 31 57 10d +10m cnn.com/2026/01/03/americas/venezuela-explosions-intl-hnk 61Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes 4615 1759 10d +24m reuters.com/world/americas/loud-noises-heard-venezuela-capital-southern-area-without-electricity-2026-01-03 62A Beginner's Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi Detector 41 145 12d +2d siliconjunction.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/a-beginners-two-component-crystal-style-wi-fi-detector 63Japan joining growing global trend of declining democracy 93 59 10d +14m asahi.com/ajw/articles/16262732 64[dead] ? 5 14d +4d ryjoxdemo.com 65IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf] 49 180 10d +1h github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/blob/main/papers/IQuest_Coder_Technical_Report.pdf 66Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot 22 139 16d +6d streaming.media.ccc.de/39c3/relive/2149 67Adventure 751 (1980) 7 60 10d +1h bluerenga.blog/2026/01/01/adventure-751-1980 68The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest 63 66 13d +2d thephd.dev/the-cost-of-a-closure-in-c-c2y-followup 69Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star 9 48 10d +1h phys.org/news/2025-12-einstein-probe-ray-flare-nearby.html 70Rope science, part 11 – practical syntax highlighting (2017) 1 10 17d +7d xi-editor.io/docs/rope_science_11.html 71Uxn/Varvara ecosystem is a personal computing stack 1 18 10d +1h 100r.co/site/uxn.html 72Proving Liveness with TLA 1 39 10d +50m roscidus.com/blog/blog/2026/01/01/tla-liveness 73Blaze: A Dec VT420 (and More) Emulator 5 18 10d +45m mmastrac.github.io/blaze 74A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015) 24 103 10d +27m nullprogram.com/blog/2015/03/19 75Blob Opera, Community Edition 4 29 18d +7d opera.addy.ie 76Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 321 376 10d +1h neowin.net/news/report-microsoft-quietly-kills-official-way-to-activate-windows-1110-without-internet 77Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second 142 258 10d +43m lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me 78The most friendless place on Earth 10 21 10d +1h economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/the-most-friendless-place-on-earth 79The PGP Problem (2019) 1 34 15d +5d latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem 802026 will be my year of the Linux desktop 634 826 10d +1m xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop 81NY Fed cash transfers to banks increase dramatically in Q4 2025 26 68 10d +59m dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis 82 More... 2026.01.02