The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2026

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The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe noheger.at · happosai · 11 Jan 2026

2.8k pts 1.2k comments

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Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers arstechnica.com · rayrey · 8 Jan 2026

2.5k pts 396 comments

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It's hard to justify Tahoe icons tonsky.me · lylejantzi3rd · 5 Jan 2026

2.5k pts 951 comments

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Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev · bobsterlobster · 28 Jan 2026

1.9k pts 1.5k comments

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Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings antirender.com · iambateman · 30 Jan 2026

1.8k pts 453 comments

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Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com · jumpocelot · 3 Jan 2026

1.8k pts 4.7k comments

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Lessons from 14 years at Google addyosmani.com · cdrnsf · 4 Jan 2026

1.7k pts 687 comments

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Moltbook moltbook.com · teej · 30 Jan 2026

1.7k pts 5 comments

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Vietnam bans unskippable ads saigoneer.com · hoherd · 6 Jan 2026

1.6k pts 813 comments

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Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time data.stackexchange.com · maartin0 · 3 Jan 2026

1.6k pts 999 comments

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TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues cnn.com · kotaKat · 27 Jan 2026

1.5k pts 1k comments

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ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data eff.org · JKCalhoun · 25 Jan 2026

1.5k pts 969 comments

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Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team github.com · kevlened · 7 Jan 2026

1.5k pts 840 comments

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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering alexharri.com · alexharri · 17 Jan 2026

1.4k pts 149 comments

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Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC cannoneyed.com · cannoneyed · 22 Jan 2026

1.3k pts 241 comments

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Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work claude.com · adocomplete · 12 Jan 2026

1.3k pts 565 comments

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Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com · todsacerdoti · 11 Jan 2026

1.3k pts 1.6k comments

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enclose.horse enclose.horse · DavidSJ · 6 Jan 2026

1.2k pts 233 comments

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Linux is good now pcgamer.com · Vinnl · 1 Jan 2026

1.2k pts 1k comments

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Eat Real Food realfood.gov · atestu · 7 Jan 2026

1.2k pts 1.6k comments

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Bugs Apple loves bugsappleloves.com · nhod · 23 Jan 2026

1.1k pts 537 comments

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Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app macrumors.com · pier25 · 28 Jan 2026

1.1k pts 917 comments

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Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere indieweb.org · 47thpresident · 2 Jan 2026

1.1k pts 248 comments

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Scott Adams has died youtube.com · ekianjo · 13 Jan 2026

1.1k pts 1.8k comments

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US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes reuters.com · kpw94 · 7 Jan 2026

1.1k pts 1.1k comments

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STFU github.com · tanelpoder · 16 Jan 2026

1k pts 601 comments

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Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops techcrunch.com · bookofjoe · 23 Jan 2026

1k pts 662 comments

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Apple picks Gemini to power Siri cnbc.com · stygiansonic · 12 Jan 2026

1k pts 651 comments

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Cloudflare acquires Astro astro.build · todotask2 · 16 Jan 2026

960 pts 391 comments

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FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE nbcnews.com · duxup · 27 Jan 2026

955 pts 1.6k comments

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Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants blog.ncase.me · mijailt · 29 Jan 2026

954 pts 641 comments

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Ask HN: Share your personal website susam · 14 Jan 2026

950 pts 2.4k comments

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AI generated music barred from Bandcamp old.reddit.com · cdrnsf · 13 Jan 2026

949 pts 726 comments

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We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports curl.se · latexr · 22 Jan 2026

949 pts 617 comments

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FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home theguardian.com · echelon_musk · 14 Jan 2026

946 pts 582 comments

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There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout loworbitsecurity.com · illithid0 · 5 Jan 2026

941 pts 449 comments

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GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers gptzero.me · segmenta · 22 Jan 2026

937 pts 507 comments

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Statement from Jerome Powell federalreserve.gov · 0xedb · 12 Jan 2026

924 pts 808 comments

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A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks twitter.com · bigwheels · 26 Jan 2026

913 pts 848 comments

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Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal iranintl.com · mhb · 26 Jan 2026

908 pts 728 comments

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France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. twitter.com · bwb · 26 Jan 2026

900 pts 780 comments

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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location an.dywa.ng · cbeuw · 31 Jan 2026

893 pts 582 comments

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Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far burkeholland.github.io · tbassetto · 6 Jan 2026

879 pts 1.4k comments

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Claude Cowork exfiltrates files promptarmor.com · takira · 14 Jan 2026

870 pts 399 comments

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After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand atmoio.substack.com · mobitar · 26 Jan 2026

865 pts 634 comments

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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too notebookcheck.net · smurda · 11 Jan 2026

854 pts 800 comments

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If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design mastodon.social · lateforwork · 17 Jan 2026

854 pts 321 comments

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2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop xeiaso.net · todsacerdoti · 3 Jan 2026

835 pts 639 comments

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How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code mihaileric.com · nutellalover · 8 Jan 2026

816 pts 239 comments

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First, make me care gwern.net · andsoitis · 25 Jan 2026

813 pts 249 comments

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jQuery 4 blog.jquery.com · OuterVale · 18 Jan 2026

811 pts 299 comments

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European Alternatives european-alternatives.eu · s_dev · 23 Jan 2026

810 pts 512 comments

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The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible creepylink.com · dreadsword · 15 Jan 2026

807 pts 148 comments

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Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native theregister.com · jamesblonde · 31 Jan 2026

806 pts 697 comments

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Shipmap.org shipmap.org · surprisetalk · 7 Jan 2026

803 pts 119 comments

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The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café candost.blog · mooreds · 4 Jan 2026

802 pts 434 comments

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Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? publicdebates · 15 Jan 2026

799 pts 1.2k comments

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Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016) ucsf.edu · aldarion · 7 Jan 2026

797 pts 501 comments

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Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 eupolicy.social · colinprince · 10 Jan 2026

792 pts 546 comments

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Neural Networks: Zero to Hero karpathy.ai · suioir · 4 Jan 2026

791 pts 77 comments