Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-17
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Lock-Picking Robot
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We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
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LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
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Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing
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Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13
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The Dilbert Afterlife
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6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
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East Germany balloon escape
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US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
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Posted at 2026-01-18 00:00 | Permanent link |
Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-16
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
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Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
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Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
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List of individual trees
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OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
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Just the Browser
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Cloudflare acquires Astro
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Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence
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Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
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STFU
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Posted at 2026-01-17 00:00 | Permanent link |
Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-15
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
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Find a pub that needs you
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So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?
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Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
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The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
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Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout
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25 Years of Wikipedia
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The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
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Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
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Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
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Posted at 2026-01-16 00:00 | Permanent link |
Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-14
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them
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There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
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Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests
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We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
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A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap
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I hate GitHub Actions with passion
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SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
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FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home
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Ask HN: Share your personal website
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Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
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Posted at 2026-01-15 00:00 | Permanent link |
Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-13
The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:
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Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode
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Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy
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LLVM: The bad parts
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Date is out, Temporal is in
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Postal Arbitrage
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Chromium Has Merged JpegXL
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Apple Creator Studio
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Scott Adams has died
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Scott Adams has died
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AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp
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Posted at 2026-01-14 00:00 | Permanent link |