Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-08
- Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team github.com - 633 comments 1111 points
- US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes www.reuters.com - 829 comments 765 points
- Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD - 2016 www.ucsf.edu - 429 comments 736 points
- Eat Real Food realfood.gov - 1008 comments 725 points
- Shipmap.org www.shipmap.org - 89 comments 551 points
- A4 Paper Stories susam.net - 150 comments 321 points
- LaTeX Coffee Stains - 2021 - pdf ctan.math.illinois.edu - 72 comments 309 points
- US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year www.bloomberg.com - 310 comments 304 points
- Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default tailscale.com - 105 comments 265 points
- Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com addons.mozilla.org - 158 comments 240 points
- “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” - 2016 lbstanza.org - 218 comments 239 points
- ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree www.eff.org - 208 comments 218 points
- Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE www.nbcnews.com - 160 comments 199 points
- ChatGPT Health openai.com - 226 comments 196 points
- Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files boingboing.net - 202 comments 188 points
- Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans blog.adafruit.com - 131 comments 186 points
- Texas A&M bans part of Plato’s Symposium dailynous.com - 108 comments 186 points
- Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says www.nprillinois.org - 63 comments 180 points
- Dell’s CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I’ve had in 5 years www.pcgamer.com - 100 comments 166 points
- NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens socket.dev - 44 comments 155 points
- Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration www.promptarmor.com - 18 comments 148 points
- LLM Problems Observed in Humans embd.cc - 100 comments 144 points
- Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle psychotechnology.substack.com - 102 comments 143 points
- Many hells of WebDAV candid.dev - 69 comments 143 points
- Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress www.newsweek.com - 203 comments 135 points
- Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20 pebblebed.com - 42 comments 111 points
- Play Aardwolf MUD www.aardwolf.com - 47 comments 109 points
- How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI www.wsj.com - 98 comments 103 points
- Claude Code CLI was broken github.com - 88 comments 103 points
- A tab hoarder’s journey to sanity twitter.com - 101 comments 97 points
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