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  1. FracturedJson (github.com/j-brooke)
    ×2.11 | 287 points by PretzelFisch 4 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
    ×1.48 2 | 46 points by whoishiring 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. 10 years of personal finances in plain text files (sgoel.dev)
    ×2.03 3 | 271 points by wrxd 5 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone (punkt.ch)
    ×2.90 4 | 17 points by ChrisArchitect 42 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. 39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos (ccc.de)
    ×2.73 3 | 218 points by Jommi 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Assorted less(1) tips (thechases.com)
    ×1.53 8 | 73 points by todsacerdoti 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature (standardebooks.org)
    ×1.68 6 | 235 points by WithinReason 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)
    ×2.32 9 | 12 points by whoishiring 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark (eurosurveillance.org)
    ×4.17 2 | 310 points by stared 6 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Why users cannot create Issues directly (github.com/ghostty-org)
    ×3.64 5 | 600 points by xpe 15 hours ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Dealta – A game-theoretic decentralized trading protocol (github.com/orgs)
    ×0.66 15 | 38 points by kalenvale 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Vibe Coding Killed Cursor (ischemist.com)
    ×3.40 7 | 18 points by hiddenseal 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. ThingsBoard: Open-Source IoT Platform (github.com/thingsboard)
    ×1.25 15 | 11 points by pretext 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Happy Public Domain Day 2026 (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×1.85 8 | 379 points by apetresc 15 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. A small collection of text-only websites (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.50 9 | 60 points by danielfalbo 5 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. A website to destroy all websites (henry.codes)
    ×3.11 7 | 664 points by g0xA52A2A 20 hours ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. What You Need to Know Before Touching a Video File (github.com/arch1t3cht)
    ×2.06 6 | 107 points by qbow883 4 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc. (kaigaiiju.ch)
    ×0.85 24 | 76 points by kibitan 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception? (microsoft.com)
    ×0.94 12 | 46 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Show HN: I built a clipboard tool to strip/keep specific formatting like Italics (custompaste.com)
    ×0.55 21 | 24 points by EvaWorld9 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Jsonic – Python JSON serialization that works (medium.com)
    ×0.72 8 | 18 points by orrbenyamini 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1) (rtfm.co.ua)
    ×1.19 12 | 101 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Cameras and Lenses (2020) (ciechanow.ski)
    ×2.19 14 | 482 points by sebg 23 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Can Bundler be as fast as uv? (tenderlovemaking.com)
    ×1.87 15 | 315 points by ibobev 19 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Parental Controls Aren't for Parents (beasthacker.com)
    ×4.13 22 | 163 points by beasthacker 3 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Joseph Campbell Meets George Lucas – Part I (2015) (starwars.com)
    ×0.56 49 | 35 points by indigodaddy 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Netflix Simian Army (2011) (netflixtechblog.com)
    ×0.47 13 | 11 points by rognjen 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Contact the ISS (ariss.org)
    ×0.98 27 | 77 points by logikblok 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household (lalitm.com)
    ×1.19 8 | 86 points by ayi 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface (github.com/maxpert)
    ×1.31 13 | 153 points by zX41ZdbW 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Linux is good now (pcgamer.com)
    ×6.39 15 | 996 points by Vinnl 20 hours ago | 807 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal (bloomberg.com)
    ×2.22 30 | 323 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 517 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt (enroll.sh)
    ×1.84 12 | 224 points by _mig5 18 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. US Government demands access to European police databases and biometrics [video] (ccc.de)
    ×3.87 14 | 26 points by DyslexicAtheist 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust (openworkers.com)
    ×2.26 9 | 479 points by max_lt 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] (ccc.de)
    ×2.59 17 | 525 points by AndrewDucker 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Soho 1851: The Greatest Christmas Meal Ever Cooked (londonist.com)
    ×0.78 9 | 14 points by zeristor 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. 2025 Letter (danwang.co)
    ×2.13 19 | 360 points by Amorymeltzer 1 day ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player (medium.com)
    ×2.33 31 | 248 points by ResisBey 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Python numbers every programmer should know (mkennedy.codes)
    ×2.30 16 | 392 points by WoodenChair 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. I rebooted my social life (jamesomalley.co.uk)
    ×3.15 19 | 472 points by edent 1 day ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs (github.com/quickemu-project)
    ×1.54 34 | 190 points by teekert 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app (jgc.org)
    ×1.65 67 | 232 points by jgrahamc 1 day ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Tokamak experiments exceed plasma density limit (phys.org)
    ×1.85 6 | 5 points by leopoldj 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy (iroiro.party)
    ×0.75 33 | 68 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform (nullprogram.com)
    ×0.84 35 | 84 points by ArmageddonIt 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. High-Fidelity 3D Shape Generation (pku-yuangroup.github.io)
    ×0.58 35 | 10 points by nkko 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×1.10 29 | 143 points by thomasjb 21 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged (cnn.com)
    ×3.53 14 | 462 points by wslh 22 hours ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Beddel Protocol: Sequential Pipeline Executor (YAML) (npmjs.com)
    ×0.27 53 | 8 points by mesenga 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Round the tree, yes, but not round the squirrel (futilitycloset.com)
    ×0.74 1 | 52 points by beardyw 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer (zelang-dev.github.io)
    ×0.73 41 | 89 points by thetechstech 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin (carette.xyz)
    ×1.29 26 | 87 points by weird_trousers 8 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder (theguardian.com)
    ×1.42 40 | 149 points by aussieguy1234 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Square Minus Square – A coding agent benchmark (aedm.net)
    ×0.67 24 | 20 points by Topfi 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Build a Deep Learning Library (quarto.pub)
    ×1.06 32 | 120 points by butanyways 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies (fordauthority.com)
    ×1.99 24 | 181 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. AB316: No AI Scapegoating Allowed (shub.club)
    ×1.41 38 | 25 points by forthwall 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan (apple.com)
    ×2.94 1 | 406 points by eklavya 1 day ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. 2025: The Year in LLMs (simonwillison.net)
    ×4.02 4 | 893 points by simonw 1 day ago | 551 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework (github.com/fsmunoz)
    ×0.71 44 | 79 points by fsmunoz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows (lethain.com)
    ×0.77 40 | 67 points by pavel_lishin 22 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Love your customers (dtrace.org)
    ×1.37 24 | 115 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Children and Helical Time (wordpress.com)
    ×1.94 22 | 179 points by moultano 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Tech Leads (ycombinator.com)
    1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP (centamori.com)
    ×0.88 31 | 91 points by centamiv 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010) (textfiles.com)
    ×0.73 47 | 34 points by kmstout 17 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Show HN: Wario Synth – Turn any song into Game Boy version (wario.style)
    ×0.96 38 | 61 points by birdmania 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Moving Images Related to the Apollo Missions, 1967–1969 (archives.gov)
    ×0.65 32 | 52 points by handfuloflight 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Simple 3D Packing (github.com/Vrroom)
    ×1.04 51 | 64 points by matroid 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008) (mit.edu)
    ×0.97 41 | 49 points by mpweiher 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Tesla sales fall for the second year in a row (businessinsider.com)
    ×4.90 47 | 18 points by jrpelkonen 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video] (ccc.de)
    ×1.19 11 | 122 points by Kyro38 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Pokémon Team Optimization (nchagnet.pages.dev)
    ×1.59 24 | 182 points by nchagnet 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world (theregister.com)
    ×2.66 66 | 38 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure (phronemophobic.com)
    ×1.40 14 | 176 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Norway zips ahead in EV race as car sales hit 96% electric (reuters.com)
    ×2.75 10 | 9 points by whynotmaybe 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Five archetypes of small-scale fisheries reveal a continuum of strategies (nature.com)
    ×0.43 41 | 17 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes (tomshardware.com)
    ×2.78 10 | 264 points by gloxkiqcza 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker (github.com/buyukakyuz)
    ×1.64 19 | 129 points by ravenical 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs (timur.hu)
    ×1.33 60 | 31 points by epakai 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Memory Subsystem Optimizations (johnnysswlab.com)
    ×0.52 51 | 45 points by mfiguiere 23 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Only 5 Sears stores remain in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
    ×1.78 60 | 92 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Gaming on a Receipt Printer [video] (youtube.com)
    ×0.59 33 | 24 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them (sherwood.news)
    ×3.28 14 | 310 points by wtcactus 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. How to construct complex data declaratively and progressively? (github.com/allmonday)
    ×0.57 56 | 29 points by tank-34 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Richest People Gained Record $2.2T in 2025, Fueling Calls for Wealth Tax (commondreams.org)
    ×4.80 69 | 15 points by robtherobber 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] (uvic.ca)
    ×1.60 36 | 331 points by tosh 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. A terminal-based browser with Sixel graphics (codeberg.org)
    ×1.39 6 | 11 points by rcarmo 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. (exopriors.com)
    ×1.90 30 | 375 points by Xyra 2 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???