Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-18
- ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering alexharri.com - 112 comments 938 points
- The recurring dream of replacing developers www.caimito.net - 305 comments 380 points
- If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design mastodon.social - 163 comments 378 points
- US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it electrek.co - 308 comments 340 points
- Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city github.com - 59 comments 244 points
- PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch www.theregister.com - 265 comments 243 points
- ClickHouse acquires Langfuse langfuse.com - 92 comments 203 points
- Raising money fucked me up blog.yakkomajuri.com - 67 comments 203 points
- After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn’t need to look like news www.niemanlab.org - 219 comments 194 points
- 2025 was the third hottest year on record www.economist.com - 184 comments 186 points
- Light Mode InFFFFFFlation willhbr.net - 134 comments 182 points
- Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland apnews.com - 236 comments 176 points
- What life is like in Minneapolis now donmoynihan.substack.com - 49 comments 168 points
- Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish github.com - 50 comments 156 points
- Canada’s deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US www.bbc.com - 179 comments 150 points
- The ‘untouchable hacker god’ behind Finland’s biggest crime www.theguardian.com - 151 comments 150 points
- Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them github.com - 46 comments 145 points
- You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass geohot.github.io - 231 comments 141 points
- An Elizabethan mansion’s secrets for staying warm www.bbc.com - 147 comments 130 points
- Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro twitter.com - 67 comments 123 points
- Italy investigates Activision Blizzard for pushing in-game purchases techcrunch.com - 43 comments 109 points
- Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why - 2024 www.economist.com - 125 comments 108 points
- The 600-year-old origins of the word ‘hello’ www.bbc.com - 66 comments 96 points
- The thing that brought me joy www.stephenlewis.me - 39 comments 89 points
- jQuery 4.0.0 Released blog.jquery.com - 24 comments 87 points
- The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says www.npr.org - 88 comments 86 points
- There’s no single best way to store information www.quantamagazine.org - 44 comments 83 points
- Congress wants to hand your parenting to big tech www.eff.org - 54 comments 81 points
- Every data centre is a U.S. military base www.policyalternatives.ca - 51 comments 81 points
- OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions arstechnica.com - 81 comments 77 points
January 18, 2026 ∙