Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-14
- Scott Adams has died www.youtube.com - 1378 comments 873 points
- AI generated music barred from Bandcamp old.reddit.com - 496 comments 704 points
- Apple Creator Studio www.apple.com - 395 comments 486 points
- Chromium Has Merged JpegXL chromium-review.googlesource.com - 143 comments 424 points
- Scott Adams has died www.usatoday.com - 3 comments 417 points
- Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests www.theguardian.com - 267 comments 373 points
- Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation discuss.python.org - 165 comments 373 points
- Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home buckscountybeacon.com - 248 comments 366 points
- We can’t have nice things because of AI scrapers blog.metabrainz.org - 185 comments 356 points
- Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk coywolf.com - 96 comments 325 points
- Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout www.heraldscotland.com - 253 comments 308 points
- 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet state-of-iranblackout.whisper.security - 329 comments 261 points
- When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software www.marcia.no - 77 comments 248 points
- What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 scotthelme.co.uk - 332 comments 235 points
- Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever github.com - 54 comments 226 points
- The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management - 2025 freedomnews.org.uk - 267 comments 221 points
- A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap questdb.com - 45 comments 217 points
- Games Workshop bans staff from using AI www.ign.com - 112 comments 213 points
- The Tulip Creative Computer github.com - 46 comments 206 points
- The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists lewiscampbell.tech - 199 comments 205 points
- Indifference is a power aeon.co - 211 comments 204 points
- Mozilla’s open source AI strategy blog.mozilla.org - 185 comments 183 points
- Every GitHub object has two IDs www.greptile.com - 46 comments 181 points
- How to make a damn website - 2024 lmnt.me - 54 comments 172 points
- U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded www.nytimes.com - 187 comments 167 points
- The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference www.owlposting.com - 33 comments 166 points
- Let’s be honest, Generative AI isn’t going all that well garymarcus.substack.com - 186 comments 155 points
- FOSS in times of war, scarcity and - adversarial AI - video fosdem.org - 102 comments 148 points
- Show HN: An iOS budget app I’ve been maintaining since 2011 primoco.me - 56 comments 148 points
- The $LANG Programming Language news.ycombinator.com - 27 comments 147 points
January 14, 2026 ∙