Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-17
- Cloudflare acquires Astro astro.build - 348 comments 778 points
- STFU github.com - 483 comments 755 points
- Just the Browser justthebrowser.com - 246 comments 526 points
- Cursor’s latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence embedding-shapes.github.io - 201 comments 485 points
- East Germany balloon escape en.wikipedia.org - 144 comments 418 points
- Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% electrek.co - 541 comments 407 points
- 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available letsencrypt.org - 222 comments 379 points
- Michelangelo’s first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 www.openculture.com - 164 comments 337 points
- Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing www.robinlinacre.com - 94 comments 255 points
- Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see www.fromjason.xyz - 112 comments 238 points
- Our approach to advertising openai.com - 206 comments 232 points
- Interactive eBPF ebpf.party - 9 comments 226 points
- Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor www.dell.com - 242 comments 188 points
- LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet social.kernel.org - 111 comments 166 points
- America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws abio.substack.com - 289 comments 162 points
- On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse - 2022 - pdf web.cs.ucdavis.edu - 149 comments 161 points
- Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory dl.acm.org - 154 comments 124 points
- Read_once- , Write_once(), but Not for Rust lwn.net - 34 comments 119 points
- Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation cloud.google.com - 61 comments 105 points
- Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe? eclecticlight.co - 99 comments 95 points
- The spectrum of isolation: From bare metal to WebAssembly buildsoftwaresystems.com - 33 comments 92 points
- FLUX.2 - Klein: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence bfl.ai - 33 comments 90 points
- psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context github.com - 27 comments 90 points
- ICE takes back into custody man released for violation of rights apnews.com - 53 comments 87 points
- Reading across books with Claude Code pieterma.es - 22 comments 86 points
- AI Destroys Institutions papers.ssrn.com - 145 comments 85 points
- Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news - 2025 raulnegron.me - 19 comments 79 points
- Germany’s shut down of nuclear plants a ‘huge mistake’, says Merz brusselssignal.eu - 2 comments 75 points
- Cyberattack in Venezuela demonstrated precision of U.S. capabilities www.nytimes.com - 91 comments 72 points
- Launch HN: Indy - YC S21 – A support app designed for ADHD brains www.shimmer.care - 78 comments 71 points
January 17, 2026 ∙