Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-01
- Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame monogame.net - 228 comments 529 points
- Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades www.latimes.com - 349 comments 505 points
- I canceled my book deal austinhenley.com - 250 comments 413 points
- 2025: The Year in LLMs simonwillison.net - 181 comments 337 points
- Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. exopriors.com - 116 comments 327 points
- Tell HN: Happy New Year news.ycombinator.com - 155 comments 289 points
- Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design - 2011 - pdf www.ece.uvic.ca - 87 comments 279 points
- Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere www.helsinki.fi - 288 comments 261 points
- The rise of industrial software chrisloy.dev - 160 comments 227 points
- Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com - 62 comments 220 points
- Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers www.reuters.com - 113 comments 218 points
- 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 www.windowscentral.com - 285 comments 207 points
- France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year www.theguardian.com - 268 comments 199 points
- On privacy and control toidiu.com - 89 comments 158 points
- The compiler is your best friend blog.daniel-beskin.com - 105 comments 153 points
- The most famous transcendental numbers sprott.physics.wisc.edu - 97 comments 148 points
- The Delete Act privacy.ca.gov - 63 comments 144 points
- How AI labs are solving the power problem newsletter.semianalysis.com - 215 comments 139 points
- Scientists unlock brain’s natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke www.monash.edu - 27 comments 139 points
- Court report detailing ChatGPT’s involvement with a recent murder suicide - pdf storage.courtlistener.com - 121 comments 133 points
- Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris kywch.github.io - 30 comments 124 points
- When square pixels aren’t square alexwlchan.net - 57 comments 121 points
- Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups www.smokingonabike.com - 93 comments 118 points
- Iron Beam: Israel’s first operational anti drone laser system mod.gov.il - 207 comments 116 points
- Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure www.reuters.com - 115 comments 111 points
- Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com - 99 comments 102 points
- 2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? xam.dk - 139 comments 99 points
- OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history www.wsj.com - 63 comments 81 points
- Nvidia GB10’s Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side chipsandcheese.com - 10 comments 77 points
- Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine’s API carimbo.games - 87 comments 75 points
January 1, 2026 ∙