Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Claude Cowork exfiltrates files (01:25) - Ask HN: Share your personal website (02:23) - SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation (03:22) - The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible (04:11) - Find a pub that needs you (05:15) - Scaling long-running autonomous coding (06:21) - Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you (07:14) - Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s (08:29) - Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? (09:21) - The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography (10:30) - Outro Claude Cowork exfiltrates fileshttps://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-fileshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622328Ask HN: Share your personal websitehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violationhttps://www.sparkfun.com/official-responsehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616488The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possiblehttps://creepylink.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46627652Find a pub that needs youhttps://www.ismypubfucked.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617360Scaling long-running autonomous codinghttps://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agentshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624541Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around youhttps://webtiles.kicya.net/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561341Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100shttps://furiosa.ai/blog/introducing-rngd-server-efficient-ai-inference-at-data-center-scalehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626410Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616529The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptographyhttps://cryptography.io/en/latest/statements/state-of-openssl/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624352

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Scott Adams has died (01:19) - AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (02:24) - There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape (03:32) - A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap (04:42) - Every GitHub object has two IDs (05:53) - The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (07:06) - The Tulip Creative Computer (08:07) - How to make a damn website (2024) (09:12) - The $LANG Programming Language (10:10) - No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams (11:21) - Outro Scott Adams has diedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs_JrOIo3SEhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602102AI generated music barred from Bandcamphttps://old.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605490There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vapehttps://blog.jgc.org/2026/01/theres-ridiculous-amount-of-tech-in.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591810A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gaphttps://questdb.com/blog/jvm-current-thread-user-time/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609630Every GitHub object has two IDshttps://www.greptile.com/blog/github-idshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602591The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conferencehttps://www.owlposting.com/p/the-truth-behind-the-2026-jp-morganhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605332The Tulip Creative Computerhttps://github.com/shorepine/tulipcchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603995How to make a damn website (2024)https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46604250The $LANG Programming Languagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610557No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teamshttps://www.ablg.io/blog/no-management-neededhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605854

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (01:31) - Apple picks Gemini to power Siri (02:37) - Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (03:44) - TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (04:53) - Postal Arbitrage (05:53) - Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy (07:03) - Date is out, Temporal is in (08:08) - LLVM: The bad parts (09:16) - Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode (10:27) - Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients (11:38) - Outro Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your workhttps://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-previewhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593022Apple picks Gemini to power Sirihttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589675Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kidshttps://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587934TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLMhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280Postal Arbitragehttps://walzr.com/postal-arbitragehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591708Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buyhttps://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/12/ozempic-changing-foods-americans-buyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587536Date is out, Temporal is inhttps://piccalil.li/blog/date-is-out-and-temporal-is-in/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589658LLVM: The bad partshttps://www.npopov.com/2026/01/11/LLVM-The-bad-parts.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588837Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCodehttps://cy.md/opencode-rce/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581095Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clientshttps://archaeologist.dev/artifacts/anthropichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586766

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe (01:29) - CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun (02:46) - iCloud Photos Downloader (03:40) - I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video] (04:49) - Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video] (05:50) - Xfce is great (06:56) - This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser (08:01) - Poison Fountain (09:07) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026) (10:08) - Outro The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoehttps://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579864Don't fall into the anti-AI hypehttps://antirez.com/news/158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and funhttps://fulghum.io/self-hostinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580326iCloud Photos Downloaderhttps://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloaderhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578921I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMAhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539478Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543509Xfce is greathttps://rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584173This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browserhttps://iczelia.net/posts/snake-polyglot/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580864Poison Fountainhttps://rnsaffn.com/poison3/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577464Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577242

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak (01:32) - Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project (02:37) - Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books (03:34) - Code and Let Live (04:45) - AI is a business model stress test (06:01) - Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering (07:11) - My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated (08:11) - A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease (09:20) - Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study (10:23) - ASCII-Driven Development (11:22) - Outro Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leakhttps://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fixhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568794Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source projecthttps://www.openchaos.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566812Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 bookshttps://trails.pieterma.es/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567400Code and Let Livehttps://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557825AI is a business model stress testhttps://dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-testhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46567392Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram renderinghttps://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferritehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571980My Home Fibre Network Disintegratedhttps://alienchow.dev/post/fibre_disintegration/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572679A battle over Canada’s mystery brain diseasehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c623r47d67lohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572769Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': studyhttps://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-americahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569312ASCII-Driven Developmenthttps://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538628

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines (01:30) - Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear (02:23) - “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI” (03:24) - How will the miracle happen today? (04:33) - Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times (05:47) - Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux (06:48) - How Markdown took over the world (07:50) - JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters (08:41) - Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok (09:32) - RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game? (10:48) - Outro Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fineshttps://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555760Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by earhttps://lend-me-your-ears.specr.nethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556210“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560445How will the miracle happen today?https://kk.org/thetechnium/how-will-the-miracle-happen-today/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489514Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Timeshttps://nexanet.ai/blog/53-times-flocksafety-hardcoded-the-password-for-americas-surveillance-infrastructurehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555807Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linuxhttps://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553343How Markdown took over the worldhttps://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556695JavaScript Demos in 140 Charactershttps://beta.dwitter.nethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557489Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTokhttps://quack.sdan.iohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557029RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-01-08-crappy-computer-showdown/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558148

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers (01:23) - Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS (02:28) - How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code (03:38) - The Jeff Dean Facts (04:32) - Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions (05:36) - AI coding assistants are getting worse? (06:43) - Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU (07:50) - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform (08:58) - Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async (10:09) - Why I left iNaturalist (11:18) - Outro Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakershttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speakers-ahead-of-eol/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541892Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSShttps://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545077How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Codehttps://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545620The Jeff Dean Factshttps://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFactshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46540498Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptionshttps://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46549823AI coding assistants are getting worse?https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degradeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46542036Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPUhttps://github.com/samuel-vitorino/soprohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546113The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transformhttps://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544981Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and asynchttps://github.com/embassy-rs/embassyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547740Why I left iNaturalisthttps://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548940

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team (01:22) - US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes (02:29) - Eat Real Food (03:36) - Shipmap.org (04:36) - A4 Paper Stories (05:37) - LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf] (06:40) - Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default (07:54) - ChatGPT Health (08:58) - “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016) (10:10) - Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware (11:13) - Outro Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering teamhttps://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527950US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homeshttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-will-ban-large-institutional-investors-buying-single-family-homes-trump-says-2026-01-07/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531068Eat Real Foodhttps://realfood.govhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529237Shipmap.orghttps://www.shipmap.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527161A4 Paper Storieshttps://susam.net/a4-paper-stories.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525888LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]https://ctan.math.illinois.edu/graphics/pgf/contrib/coffeestains/coffeestains-en.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526933Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by defaulthttps://tailscale.com/changeloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531925ChatGPT Healthhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531280“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)https://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46525640Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardwarehttps://patchouli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537489

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Vietnam bans unskippable ads (01:25) - Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far (02:44) - Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone (03:51) - The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup (04:55) - I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it (05:48) - Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) (06:54) - A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time (08:19) - Sergey Brin's Unretirement (09:21) - Passing of Joe Mancuso (10:15) - Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit (11:26) - Outro Vietnam bans unskippable adshttps://saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/28652-vienam-bans-unskippable-ads,-requires-skip-button-to-appear-after-5-secondshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514677Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus farhttps://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phonehttps://github.com/rberg27/doom-codinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517458The creator of Claude Code's Claude setuphttps://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470017I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built ithttps://medium.com/@cristi.baluta/i-wanted-a-camera-that-doesnt-exist-so-i-built-it-5f9864533eb7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466843Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)https://phrack.org/issues/71/17https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518129A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real timehttps://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518573Sergey Brin's Unretirementhttps://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/google-co-founder-sergey-brins-unretirement-is-a-lesson-for-the-rest-of-us/91280208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452641Passing of Joe Mancusohttps://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite/discussions/853https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516137Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kithttps://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/how-microsoft-killed-my-snapdragon-devkit/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521860

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 6, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout (01:27) - Databases in 2025: A Year in Review (02:47) - Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got (03:58) - Pebble Round 2 (04:56) - I switched from VSCode to Zed (06:14) - Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% (07:20) - enclose.horse (08:10) - Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android (09:07) - Welcome to Gas Town (10:16) - Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale (11:10) - Outro There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackouthttps://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46504963Databases in 2025: A Year in Reviewhttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-retrospective.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496103Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever gothttps://andrew.grahamyooll.com/blog/Try-to-Take-My-Position/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466027Pebble Round 2https://repebble.com/blog/pebble-round-2-the-most-stylish-pebble-everhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465335I switched from VSCode to Zedhttps://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/i-switched-from-vscode-to-zed/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501894enclose.horsehttps://enclose.horse/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46509211Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Androidhttps://donotnotify.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646Welcome to Gas Townhttps://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscalehttps://github.com/Adversis/tailsnitchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501137

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 5, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Lessons from 14 years at Google (01:26) - The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café (02:33) - Web development is fun again (03:44) - Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) (04:54) - Claude Code On-the-Go (06:00) - Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS (06:59) - I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019) (08:06) - Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? (09:16) - Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work (10:18) - During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website (11:25) - Outro Lessons from 14 years at Googlehttps://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488819The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a caféhttps://candost.blog/the-unbearable-joy-of-sitting-alone-in-a-cafe/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488355Web development is fun againhttps://ma.ttias.be/web-development-is-fun-again/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488576Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488278Claude Code On-the-Gohttps://granda.org/en/2026/01/02/claude-code-on-the-go/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491486Show HN: Terminal UI for AWShttps://github.com/huseyinbabal/tawshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491749I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-pagehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469877Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/674129/why-does-a-linear-least-squares-fit-appear-to-have-a-bias-when-applied-to-simplehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491821Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers workhttps://howbrowserswork.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488654During Helene, I just wanted a plain text websitehttps://sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_performancehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 4, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time (01:34) - The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 (02:45) - The C3 Programming Language (03:52) - The suck is why we're here (05:17) - Neural Networks: Zero to Hero (06:09) - Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible (07:20) - Corroded: Illegal Rust (08:27) - KDE onboarding is good now (09:28) - Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays (10:34) - Take One Small Step (11:36) - Outro Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over timehttps://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graphhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482345The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377The C3 Programming Languagehttps://c3-lang.orghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478647The suck is why we're herehttps://nik.art/the-suck-is-why-were-here/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482877Neural Networks: Zero to Herohttps://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46485090Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possiblehttps://docs.swifdroid.com/app/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483023Corroded: Illegal Rusthttps://github.com/buyukakyuz/corrodedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483531KDE onboarding is good nowhttps://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displayshttps://myembeddedstuff.com/e-ink-spectra-6-colorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440037Take One Small Stephttps://thinkhuman.com/take-one-small-step/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482107

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 3, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere (01:31) - 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop (02:40) - Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? (03:56) - IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world (05:11) - Clicks Communicator (06:12) - Assorted less(1) tips (07:16) - Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second (08:08) - Jank Lang Hit Alpha (08:58) - Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams (10:10) - Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone (11:20) - Outro Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewherehttps://indieweb.org/POSSE#https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464686002026 will be my year of the Linux desktophttps://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/year-linux-desktop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?https://www.madebywindmill.com/tempi/blog/hbfs-bpm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469577IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the worldhttps://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465327Clicks Communicatorhttps://www.clicksphone.com/en/communicatorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467057Assorted less(1) tipshttps://blog.thechases.com/posts/assorted-less-tips/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464120Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every secondhttps://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471171Jank Lang Hit Alphahttps://github.com/jank-lang/jankhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468517Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Examshttps://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467677Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphonehttps://www.punkt.ch/blogs/news/punkt-unveils-mc03https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466364

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Linux is good now (01:21) - A website to destroy all websites (02:34) - Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] (03:41) - Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust (04:49) - Cameras and Lenses (2020) (05:48) - Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged (06:57) - I rebooted my social life (08:04) - Python numbers every programmer should know (09:15) - Why users cannot create Issues directly (10:20) - 2025 Letter (11:36) - Outro Linux is good nowhttps://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770A website to destroy all websiteshttps://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457784Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-headphone-jacking-a-key-to-your-phonehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453204Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rusthttps://openworkers.com/introducing-openworkershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454693Cameras and Lenses (2020)https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455872Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damagedhttps://www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/europe/finland-estonia-undersea-cable-ship-detained-intlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46456797I rebooted my social lifehttps://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453114Python numbers every programmer should knowhttps://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454470Why users cannot create Issues directlyhttps://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/3558https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464603192025 Letterhttps://danwang.co/2025-letter/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454413

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jan 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades (01:22) - 2025: The Year in LLMs (02:38) - I canceled my book deal (03:42) - Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. (04:46) - Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] (05:56) - Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups (07:09) - Demystifying DVDs (08:10) - On privacy and control (09:24) - Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke (10:28) - Outro Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decadeshttps://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-31/warren-buffett-steps-down-as-berkshire-hathaway-ceo-after-six-decadeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=464487052025: The Year in LLMshttps://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643I canceled my book dealhttps://austinhenley.com/blog/canceledbookdeal.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446815Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.https://exopriors.com/scryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442245Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin%27s%20Laws%20of%20Spacecraft%20Design.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442903Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-upshttps://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446366Demystifying DVDshttps://hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad_Ass_Hedgehog_-_Shadow_the_Hedgehog#Demystifying_DVDshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417162On privacy and controlhttps://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446938Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for strokehttps://www.monash.edu/pharm/about/news/news-listing/latest/scientists-unlock-brains-natural-clean-up-system-to-develop-new-treatments-for-stroke-and-other-neurological-diseaseshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448894

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 31, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite (01:18) - A faster heart for F-Droid (02:22) - Non-Zero-Sum Games (03:20) - OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026 (04:26) - FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service (05:32) - Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux (06:46) - A Vulnerability in Libsodium (07:41) - Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts (08:57) - Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers (10:16) - Five Years of Tinygrad (11:30) - Outro Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLitehttps://hackerbook.dosaygo.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435308A faster heart for F-Droidhttps://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436409Non-Zero-Sum Gameshttps://nonzerosum.games/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432311OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/30/openais-cash-burn-will-be-one-of-the-big-bubble-questions-of-2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438390FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Servicehttps://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46436889Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linuxhttps://loss32.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424173A Vulnerability in Libsodiumhttps://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46435614Times New American: A Tale of Two Fontshttps://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432862Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testershttps://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438522Five Years of Tinygradhttps://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/12/29/five-years-of-tinygrad.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422757

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 30, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn (01:35) - Google is dead. Where do we go now? (02:44) - GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder (03:48) - Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind” (04:52) - Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99% (06:16) - Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they need (07:10) - ManusAI Joins Meta (08:15) - I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year (09:32) - The future of software development is software developers (10:39) - Static Allocation with Zig (11:54) - Outro Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahnhttps://www.theocharis.dev/blog/kidnapped-by-deutsche-bahn/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419970Google is dead. Where do we go now?https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46425198GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founderhttps://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-acquired-by-its-original-co-founder-what-it-means-for-you/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422412Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395714Tesla's 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/tesla-4680-battery-supply-chain-collapses-partner-writes-down-dea/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423290Linux DAW: Help Linux musicians to quickly and easily find the tools they needhttps://linuxdaw.org/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419968ManusAI Joins Metahttps://manus.im/blog/manus-joins-meta-for-next-era-of-innovationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46426534I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per yearhttps://www.zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/bye-bye-big-tech-how-i-migrated-tohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427582The future of software development is software developershttps://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46424233Static Allocation with Zighttps://nickmonad.blog/2025/static-allocation-with-zig-kv/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422009

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 29, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - What an unprocessed photo looks like (01:31) - Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (02:39) - You can make up HTML tags (03:33) - Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (04:42) - Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should (05:57) - MongoBleed Explained Simply (07:04) - PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python (08:14) - As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise (09:17) - Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB (10:22) - Staying ahead of censors in 2025 (11:19) - Outro What an unprocessed photo looks likehttps://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415225Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Deserthttps://substack.com/inbox/post/182743659https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408988You can make up HTML tagshttps://maurycyz.com/misc/make-up-tags/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416945Software engineers should be a little bit cynicalhttps://www.seangoedecke.com/a-little-bit-cynical/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414723Unity's Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it shouldhttps://marekfiser.com/blog/mono-vs-dot-net-in-unity/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414819MongoBleed Explained Simplyhttps://bigdata.2minutestreaming.com/p/mongobleed-explained-simplyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414475PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Pythonhttps://pysdr.org/content/intro.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413975As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may risehttps://www.npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-5656190/ai-chips-memory-prices-ramhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415338Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KBhttps://github.com/HarryR/z80aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417815Staying ahead of censors in 2025https://forum.torproject.org/t/staying-ahead-of-censors-in-2025-what-weve-learned-from-fighting-censorship-in-iran-and-russia/20898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417844

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 28, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Floor796 (01:09) - Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole (02:19) - How we lost communication to entertainment (03:25) - Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML (04:35) - Calendar (05:21) - Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English (06:26) - Gpg.fail (07:28) - Say No to Palantir in the NHS (08:32) - Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) (09:36) - Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales? (10:32) - Outro Floor796https://floor796.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46401612Nvidia's $20B antitrust loopholehttps://ossa-ma.github.io/blog/groqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403559How we lost communication to entertainmenthttps://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404848Replacing JavaScript with Just HTMLhttps://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/27/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407337Calendarhttps://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408613Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain Englishhttp://npmjs.com/package/ezffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400251Gpg.failhttps://gpg.failhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200Say No to Palantir in the NHShttps://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405309Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403291Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46346648

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Dec 27, 2025.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - How uv got so fast (01:36) - Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (02:43) - Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (03:43) - Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system (04:48) - The best things and stuff of 2025 (05:53) - LearnixOS (06:52) - Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? (07:46) - Always bet on text (2014) (08:47) - Exe.dev (09:39) - Outro How uv got so fasthttps://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393992Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works outhttps://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391514Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-timehttps://joannabregan.substack.com/p/toys-with-the-highest-play-time-andhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395885Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux systemhttps://github.com/pranshuparmar/witrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46392910The best things and stuff of 2025https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-of-2025.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46365726LearnixOShttps://www.learnix-os.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391599Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391572Always bet on text (2014)https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397379Exe.devhttps://exe.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397609