HckrNews (First visit) All HN frontpage stories in chronological order 1970 Paris, cut into a grid and photographed 9 37 8d +7d paris1970.jeantho.eu/index.html 1Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more 46 131 1d +8m 2Tux Paint 7 55 1d +1h tuxpaint.org 3Varnish and Virtue 0 7 4d +2d literaryreview.co.uk/varnish-virtue 4A child in the state of nature 0 22 5d +3d lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-child-in-the-state-of-nature 5The modern peril of the availability heuristic 0 8 5d +3d behavioraleconomics.com/the-modern-peril-of-the-availability-heuristic 6Is beef tallow making a comeback? 76 23 1d +3h nytimes.com/2026/01/10/dining/beef-tallow-food-pyramid-rfk-jr.html 7Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other 91 158 1d +3h llmholdem.com 8Code Is Clay 47 89 1d +2h campedersen.com/code-is-clay 9Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study 232 213 1d +2h economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america 10Code and Let Live 180 472 2d +1d fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live 11Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak 38 57 1d +42m cleantechnica.com/2026/01/08/teslas-germany-sales-down-72-from-their-peak 12UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors 60 125 1d +26m reclaimthenet.org/uk-orders-ofcom-to-explore-encryption-backdoors 13Extracting books from production language models (2026) 20 69 1d +1h arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671 14The eight ways that all the elements in the Universe are made (2021) 40 58 6d +5d bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/8-ways-elements-made 15Worst of breed software 53 111 1d +34m worstofbreed.net 16Sinclair C5 18 34 1d +10m en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5 17Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books 144 485 1d +3h trails.pieterma.es 18This is the future: A Software Library with No Code 12 33 1d +11m dbreunig.com/2026/01/08/a-software-library-with-no-code.html 19Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming 9 52 5d +3d alextardif.com/BindlessProgramming.html 20Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats (2025) 14 88 1d +1h scienceclock.com/rats-caught-on-camera-hunting-flying-bats-for-the-first-time 21Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak 131 616 1d +43m mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix 22Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI 36 61 1d +45s github.com/rustmailer/bichon 23GPU memory snapshots: sub-second startup (2025) 12 25 3d +2d modal.com/blog/gpu-mem-snapshots 24AI Econ Seminar 6 8 4d +2d cameron.stream/blog/econ-seminar 25ASCII-Driven Development 91 162 4d +2d medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351 26How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission 189 86 4d +2d sfeducation.substack.com/p/how-your-high-school-affects-your 27How we made v0 an effective coding agent 10 27 4d +2d vercel.com/blog/how-we-made-v0-an-effective-coding-agent 28Distributed Denial of Secrets 32 77 4d +2d ddosecrets.com 29Good Judgment Open 2 12 3d +2d gjopen.com 30Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas 66 107 3d +1d civai.org/p/ai-values 31Pebble Round 2 1 11 9d +7d techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/pebble-reboots-its-thinnest-smartwatch-with-the-pebble-round-2 32Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines 131 179 1d +1h ycombinator.com/companies/voltair 33[dead] ? 18 1d +53m mnvsus.fyi 34Janderland/fenv: FoundationDB development environment 5 17 9d +7d github.com/janderland/fenv 35Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 64 81 1d +14m theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/10/circumcision-classed-as-possible-child-abuse-in-draft-cps-document 36[dead] ? 32 1d +14m en.wikipedia.org 37[dead] ? 6 2d +1h connectedplaces.online 38I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy 15 14 1d +41m audiotext.livehttp:///blog/posts/hate-go-saved-startup-architecture 39AI is a business model stress test 328 334 1d +21m dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-test 40UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring PMs, SWEs to automate construction compliance 0 1 1d +9s up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN 41Time Travelling and Fixing Bugs with Property-Based Testing (2019) 0 21 6d +4d wickstrom.tech/2019-11-17-time-travelling-and-fixing-bugs-with-property-based-testing.html 42Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 366 334 1d +2m eteknix.com/microsoft-may-have-created-the-slowest-windows-in-25-years-with-windows-11 432026 looks ominous for media, from Hollywood to journalism 12 14 2d +51m npr.org/2026/01/10/nx-s1-5599552/media-2026-warner-paramount-netfilx-trump 44Show HN: Yuanzai World – LLM RPGs with branching world-lines 5 30 2d +3h yuanzai.world 45Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project 84 413 2d +25m openchaos.dev 46I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great 707 749 2d +40m theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desktop 47Show HN: C-TURTL, a turtle graphics game 3 12 10d +8d michae2.github.io/c-turtl 48Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History 225 120 2d +3h diis.dk/en/research/why-is-greenland-part-of-the-kingdom-of-denmark-a-short-history 49Show HN: Hosting 100 Linux dev environments on one VM using LXC 16 16 2d +35m github.com/FootprintAI/Containarium 50Kavanaugh Stop 0 19 2d +1h en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanaugh_stop 51Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml 19 85 5d +3d github.com/avsm/httpz 52UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence 67 315 2d +22m theregister.com/2026/01/10/csr_bill_analysis 53NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew 128 133 2d +29m livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-cancels-spacewalk-and-considers-early-crew-return-from-iss-due-to-medical-issues 54Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages for Text (2017) 211 282 2d +4h karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only 55Reverse Engineering the Epson FilmScan 200 for Classic Mac 8 94 9d +7d ronangaillard.github.io/posts/reverse-engineering-epson-filmscan-200 56ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product? 306 307 4d +1d consciousdigital.org/chatgpt-health-is-a-marketplace-guess-who-is-the-product 57New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis 124 316 2d +1h libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-4 58All my new code will be closed-source from now on 107 90 2d +10m twitter.com/MarcJSchmidt/status/2009688028931875156 59Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023) 183 459 2d +34m nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz 60Beating the Tutorial 4 29 2d +3h elliotmorris.net/blog-a-day-3-beating-the-tutorial 61Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 541 780 2d +1h eupolicy.social/@jmaris/115860595238097654 62Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick 5 89 6d +3d aman.bh/blog/2025/creating-embroidered-charts-with-r-and-imagemagick 63"We write to ask that you enforce your app stores' terms of service against X" [pdf] 18 50 2d +1h wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_apple_and_google_on_removing_x_and_grok_from_app_store_192026pdf.pdf 64Ask HN: What's a standard way for apps to request text completion as a service? 25 50 6d +4d 65I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem 40 94 2d +34m tiespetersen.substack.com/p/i-got-paid-minimum-wage-to-solve 66Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time 92 77 2d +33m theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/10/irans-internet-shutdown-is-strikingly-sophisticated-and-may-last-some-time 67The paradox of failed resolutions 1 14 5d +3d jillianhess.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-failed-resolutions 68Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold hands-on 6 15 4d +2d mashable.com/article/samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-hands-on-ces-2026 69Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers 13 25 7d +4d chipsandcheese.com/p/diving-into-qualcomms-upcoming-adreno 70The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling 55 60 8d +6d blog.appsignal.com/2025/12/03/the-performance-revolution-in-javascript-tooling.html 71USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis 29 47 2d +4h turnto10.com/news/nation-world/enough-is-enough-usda-suspends-federal-financial-awards-to-minnesota-and-minneapolis-fraud-scheme-investigation-governor-tim-walz-mayor-jacob-frey-nick-shirley-feeding-our-children-food-programs 72CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled 97 104 2d +1h unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2026/01/07/cdc-staff-blindsided-as-child-vaccine-schedule-unilaterally-overhauled 73[dead] ? 12 2d +2h rall.com 74MIT Non-AI License 35 17 2d +1h 75Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012) 30 94 9d +6d alienexplorations.blogspot.comhttp:///1979/05/kf-20-coffee-making-machine.html 76Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in MI 0 39 2d +1h cnbc.com/2026/01/07/microsoft-behind-controversial-data-center-in-michigan-township.html 77Oh My Zsh adds bloat 284 329 2d +12m rushter.com/blog/zsh-shell 78Changes to Android Open Source Project 207 307 5d +2d source.android.com 79OLED, Not for Me 204 170 2d +38m nuxx.net/blog/2026/01/09/oled-not-for-me 80Maine's black market for baby eels 13 27 2d +53m pressherald.com/2025/09/09/maines-black-market-for-baby-eels-is-spawning-a-crime-thriller-subgenre 81Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism 115 264 6d +3d phys.org/news/2026-01-eye-greenland-sharks-vision-centuries.html 82Show HN: Miditui – A terminal app/UI for MIDI composing, mixing, and playback 13 65 3d +1d github.com/minimaxir/miditui 83The rise and fall of the company behind Reader Rabbit (2018) 2 29 3d +1d theoutline.com/post/6293/reader-rabbit-history-the-learning-company-zoombinis-carmen-sandiego 84Robotopia: A 3D, first-person, talking simulator 31 64 3d +1d elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/introducing-robotopia-a-3d-first 85Show HN: Yellopages – New tab Chrome extension 7 31 3d +1d yellopages.kawaicheung.io 86Show HN: Roleplay-first chat UI for an OpenAI-compatible chat completions API 1 8 3d +1d abliteration.ai/roleplay 87The Manchester Garbage Collector and purple-garden's runtime 1 5 4d +1d xnacly.me/posts/2026/manchester-garbage-collector 88Pre-commit lint checks: Vibe coding's kryptonite 27 15 2d +4h getseer.dev/blogs/pre-commit-linting-vibe-coding 89Favorite Tech Museums 52 84 6d +4d aresluna.org/fav-tech-museums 90Start your meetings at 5 minutes past 226 279 2d +2h philipotoole.com/start-your-meetings-at-5-minutes-past 91Design duality and the expression problem (2018) 1 13 8d +6d tedinski.com/2018/02/27/the-expression-problem.html 92See it with your lying ears 6 53 2d +7m lcamtuf.substack.com/p/see-it-with-your-lying-ears 93Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail 68 67 2d +4m hsrail.org/blog/caltrain-shows-why-every-region-should-be-moving-toward-regional-rail 94Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center 12 78 2d +17m nytimes.com/2026/01/09/arts/music/washington-national-opera-kennedy-center.html 95 More... 2026.01.09