HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order Representing Hierarchies 1 14 10d +3d gpfault.net/posts/first-child-next-sibling.html 1Are we tired of social media? (2025) 86 112 6d +1h danielbrendel.com/blog/24-are-we-tired-of-social-media-once-and-for-all 2Show HN: GPU Cuckoo Filter – faster queries than Blocked Bloom, with deletion 4 31 6d +22m github.com/tdortman/cuckoo-filter 3Runtime invariant to rule count in a single-pass boundary execution model 4 5 12d +5d targetedwebresults.com/pounce-demo-final.gif 4Show HN: Symbolic Circuit Distillation: prove program to LLM circuit equivalence 2 16 6d +1h github.com/neelsomani/symbolic-circuit-distillation 5CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs 81 134 6d +9m chipsandcheese.com/p/ces-2026-taking-the-lids-off-amds 6Show HN: Foundertrace – chain of YC startups founded by its employees 13 38 9d +2d foundertrace.com 7Laylo (YC S20) – Head of Growth (Organic and Partners and Loops and AI) – Remote US 0 1 6d +2m ycombinator.com/companies/laylo/jobs/ZtLHRXe-head-of-growth 8Show HN: I built "Google" for searching Shadcn blocks on the web 3 21 10d +4d shoogle.dev 9Show HN: Finding similarities in New Yorker covers 8 18 6d +1h shoplurker.com/labs/newyorker-covers 10Writing an eigenvalue solver in Rust for WebAssembly 3 29 11d +5d abstractnonsense.xyz/blog/2025-12-31-eigenvalue-solver-in-rust-for-webassembly 11A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time 134 357 6d +41m byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 12America's affordability crisis is (mostly) a mirage 8 9 6d +1h economist.com/briefing/2025/12/30/americas-affordability-crisis-is-mostly-a-mirage 13Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing 91 124 6d +35s arxiv.org/abs/2512.09882 14How HTML changes in ePub 32 87 10d +3d htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/11 15Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics 86 179 6d +10m blog.booleanbiotech.com/oral-microbiome-biogaia 16Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) 247 334 6d +47m phrack.org/issues/71/17 17[dead] ? 36 6d +10m commondreams.org 18Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit 54 66 11d +5d textonly.github.io/git-prime 19Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner 178 143 6d +35m layandreas.github.io/personal-blog/posts/how-spotify-made-me-self-host 20Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents 37 77 6d +6h github.com/marcoaapfortes/Mantic.sh 21High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it 49 187 6d +31m arxiv.org/abs/2512.04859 22Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone 393 572 6d +5m github.com/rberg27/doom-coding 23Spherical Snake 127 649 11d +5d kevinalbs.com/spherical_snake 24Video Game Websites in the early 00s 93 189 6d +1h webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/video-game-websites-in-the-early-00s 25Why agents matter more than other AI 26 50 7d +19h substack.com/home/post/p-182047799 26Show HN: llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs 23 24 6d +16h llmgame.ai 27Show HN: ccrider - Search and Resume Your Claude Code Sessions – TUI / MCP / CLI 4 19 6d +4h github.com/neilberkman/ccrider 28Using fewer syllables to express numbers 41 25 8d +2d thegraycuber.github.io/fast_numbers 29Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016) 96 99 6d +1h techcrunch.com/2016/01/18/why-big-companies-keep-failing-the-stack-fallacy 30DatBench: Discriminative, faithful, and efficient VLM evaluations 0 18 6d +47m arxiv.org/abs/2601.02316 31Dude, where's my supersonic jet? 297 130 6d +30m rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/dude-wheres-my-supersonic-jet 32Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU 22 82 6d +10m ss.ekzhang.com/p/jax-js-an-ml-library-for-the-web 33Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Memory-Efficient Language Generation 3 46 6d +27m arxiv.org/abs/2512.20687 34Creating a bespoke data diode for air‑gapped networks 82 37 6d +18m nelop.com/bespoke-data-diode-airgap 35My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io 18 38 6d +12h nkasmanoff.github.io/#/blog/tamagotchi-rl-slitherio 36Passing of Joe Mancuso 18 188 6d +11m github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853 37Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy 135 150 6d +3m geospy.ai/blog/locating-a-photo-of-a-vehicle-in-30-seconds-with-geospy 38Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI 21 72 6d +1h github.com/shakedlokits/stash 39Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery 20 81 6d +51s 40Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far 1318 839 6d +4m burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything 41Gtasks-terminal – Google Tasks power-tool for the terminal 4 12 9d +3d github.com/sirusdas/gtasks-terminal 42Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists 164 92 6d +19m twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/2007849014407086427 43The big regression 15 40 6d +1h world.hey.com/jason/the-big-regression-da7fc60d 44Show HN: Open-source Langsmith alternative written in Rust 0 3 6d +43m github.com/lmnr-ai/lmnr 45Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket 56 91 6d +24m tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-and-mini-pc-home-lab-prices-hit-parity-as-dram-costs-skyrocket-price-hikes-force-hobbyists-to-weigh-up-performance-versus-power-consumption 4627M Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing 63 32 6d +1h nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/05/upshot/congestion-pricing-one-year.html 47Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons 47 385 6d +11m caranddriver.com/news/a69916699/volkswagen-interior-physical-buttons-return 48Loongarch Improvements with Box64 6 65 6d +17m box86.org/2026/01/new-box64-v0-4-0-released 49Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? 389 432 6d +16m akr.am/blog/posts/why-is-the-gmail-app-700-mb 50FTSE100 bosses' pay overtakes typical worker's annual salary in less than 3 days 15 31 6d +5m news.sky.com/story/ftse-100-bosses-pay-overtakes-typical-workers-annual-salary-in-less-than-three-days-of-2026-13490984 51The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025) 15 68 6d +1h carette.xyz/posts/focus_will_be_the_skill_of_the_future 52Vietnam bans unskippable ads 801 1566 6d +3m saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/28652-vienam-bans-unskippable-ads,-requires-skip-button-to-appear-after-5-seconds 53I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it 136 461 10d +3d medium.com/@cristi.baluta/i-wanted-a-camera-that-doesnt-exist-so-i-built-it-5f9864533eb7 54State of the Fin 2026-01-06 175 207 6d +12m jellyfin.org/posts/state-of-the-fin-2026-01-06 55Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders 136 119 6d +4m nytimes.com/2026/01/05/nyregion/mamdani-affordability-consumer-protections.html 56High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64 25 77 6d +1h github.com/kressler/fast-containers 57New Lego smart-play system 49 73 6d +44m lego.com/en-us/smart-play 58Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory 26 47 10d +4d devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260101-00/?p=111955 59Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics 11 75 6d +1h obsessivefacts.com/gemini-proxy?uri=gemini%3A%2F%2Fgemini.bortzmeyer.org%2Fsoftware%2Flupa%2Fstats.gmi 60Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux 96 48 6d +28m linuxiac.com/gnome-and-mozilla-discuss-proposal-to-disable-middle-mouse-paste-on-linux 6165% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform 457 493 6d +9m philippdubach.com/standalone/hn-sentiment 62Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago 99 62 13d +6d 63Why German Strings Are Everywhere? 55 69 6d +59m cedardb.com/blog/german_strings 64System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language 33 39 6d +1h system.surf 65Show HN: DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas 31 52 6d +55m 66Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect 124 72 6d +26m oregonlive.com/environment/2026/01/portlands-gas-powered-leaf-blower-ban-goes-into-effect.html 67Ugreen is expanding into AI-powered smart home surveillance 2 6 6d +13m theverge.com/tech/846789/ugree-syncare-indoor-outdoor-cameras-ai-doorbell 68C Is Best (2025) 543 404 6d +42m sqlite.org/whyc.html 69Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities 101 370 6d +22m blgardner.github.io/prism.tools 70"Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994 24 110 10d +3d breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-3-eerie-and-inspector-dangerfuck 71Show HN: Is this the best epoch converter? 15 7 6d +2h epochconverter.dev 72AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention 476 747 6d +5m theregister.com/2026/01/05/aws_price_increase 73Shipping at Inference-Speed 51 46 12d +6d steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed 74Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022) 63 235 10d +3d eugene.kaspersky.com/2022/04/26/how-to-repair-the-underside-of-a-ships-hull-still-in-the-river-in-50%CB%9Ac-yakutsk 75SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection 51 120 6d +10m scenelist.org 76Investigating and fixing a nasty clone bug 1 15 13d +6d kobzol.github.io/rust/2025/12/30/investigating-and-fixing-a-nasty-clone-bug.html 77Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics 79 36 6d +34m ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tube-trains-could-navigate-the-underground-using-the-weird-rules-of-quantum-physics-86370 78Mapping Protests in Iran 35 57 6d +42m fdd.org/analysis/2025/06/25/mapping-the-protests-in-iran-2 79Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games 13 92 10d +4d github.com/bquenin/interpreter 80New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US 10 41 11d +4d kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/fema-buyouts-vs-risky-real-estate-new-maps-reveal-post-flood-migration-patterns-across-us 81JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast 71 70 9d +2d waspdev.com/articles/2026-01-01/javascript-for-of-loops-are-actually-fast 82enclose.horse 225 1186 6d +30m enclose.horse 83The Post-American Internet 439 567 6d +1h pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3 84Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A 177 117 6d +2h newsroom.intel.com/client-computing/ces-2026-intel-core-ultra-series-3-debut-first-built-on-intel-18a 85Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story (2019) 6 14 9d +2d platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen 86Understanding SQL parsers 4 19 12d +5d nishchith.com/sql-parsers 87A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall 199 136 6d +23m bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn93292do 88GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button 29 199 7d +1h zakhary.dev/blog/gbc-web-button 89Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker 48 80 8d +1d github.com/wedow/ticket 90Raindrop-Powered Generator Using Carbon Fiber Composites 3 30 13d +6d en.sedaily.com/technology/2025/12/15/unist-develops-raindrop-powered-generator-using-carbon 91GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring back end engineers 0 1 6d +7s ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndparent/jobs/2vbzAw8-gogograndparent-yc-s16-is-hiring-backend-and-full-stack-engineers 92Show HN: Shadowlight, a voice-driven murder mystery and heist inside Minecraft 3 24 12d +5d playshadowlight.com 93Show HN: OSS sustain guard – Sustainability signals for OSS dependencies 6 21 7d +12h onukura.github.io/oss-sustain-guard 94'Doomsday fish': Once-in-a-lifetime sea creature encountered in Monterey Bay 27 61 9d +2d sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/rare-deep-sea-fish-spotted-monterey-bay-21270815.php 95Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf] 20 62 7d +3h gwern.net/doc/science/2025-kusumegi.pdf 96Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites 51 52 7d +1h thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/04/power-ranger-deletes-dating-site 97I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022) 129 262 7d +43m stoppels.ch/2022/11/27/io-is-no-longer-the-bottleneck.html 98LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word 11 50 7d +45m deobald.ca/essays/2026-01-01-localfirst-you-keep-using-that-word 99What to Do When the Trisector Comes (1983) [pdf] 17 92 14d +7d ufv.ca/media/faculty/gregschlitt/information/WhatToDoWhenTrisectorComes.pdf 100Strange.website 70 219 7d +57m strange.website 101 More... 2026.01.05