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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling
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• Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
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• What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
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• Level S4 solar radiation event
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• Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack
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• Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
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• The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
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• I'm addicted to being useful
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• Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
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• De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Wine 11.0
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• A Social Filesystem
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• Flux 2 Klein pure C inference
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• Dead Internet Theory
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• Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used
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• A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth
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• Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees
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• Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026
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• American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis
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• Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• High-Level Is the Goal
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• The recurring dream of replacing developers
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• Raising money fucked me up
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• If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
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• Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro
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• jQuery 4
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• Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons
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• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
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• Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy
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• Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky \"Helicopter\" music video
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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:

• 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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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:

• 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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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:

• 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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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:

• 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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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:

• 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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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)
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• I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]
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• Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
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• iCloud Photos Downloader
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• CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
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• Statement from Jerome Powell
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• Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
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• Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri
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• TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
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• Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Code and Let Live
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• New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
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• Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
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• AI is a business model stress test
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• Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
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• Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
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• Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
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• I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
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• Gentoo Linux 2025 Review
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• The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How will the miracle happen today?
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• Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux
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• Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
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• How Markdown took over the world
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• Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression
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• JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters
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• “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
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• Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
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• Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
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• I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• AI coding assistants are getting worse?
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• How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code
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• Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
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• Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
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• Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]
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• European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
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• London–Calcutta bus service
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• Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
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• The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
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• Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf]
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• Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs
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• ChatGPT Health
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• Open Infrastructure Map
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• Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware
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• A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
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• The Jeff Dean Facts
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• Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them
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• Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
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• Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Spherical Snake
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• I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it
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• The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
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• Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
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• Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone
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• Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
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• Shipmap.org
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• Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
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• Eat Real Food
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• US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Pebble Round 2
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• Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
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• I switched from VSCode to Zed
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• Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
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• Google broke my heart
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• The Post-American Internet
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• enclose.horse
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• AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
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• 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform
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• Vietnam bans unskippable ads
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)
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• Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis
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• Claude Code On-the-Go
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• Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS
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• Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
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• Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension
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• It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
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• RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids
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• Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
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• There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The C3 Programming Language
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• Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
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• The suck is why we're here
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• Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible
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• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
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• Can I start using Wayland in 2026?
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• Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)
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• The Unbearable Joy of Sitting Alone in a Café
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• Web development is fun again
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• Lessons from 14 Years at Google
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature
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• 39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos
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• IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
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• Clicks Communicator
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• Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
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• Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?
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• 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
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• Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
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• The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
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• Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I rebooted my social life
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• Python numbers every programmer should know
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• Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged
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• A website to destroy all websites
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• Why users cannot create Issues directly
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• Happy Public Domain Day 2026
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• I'm a developer for a major food delivery app
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• HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark
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• 10 years of personal finances in plain text files
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• FracturedJson
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-01-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on January 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.
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• Tell HN: Happy New Year
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• Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups
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• Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades
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• 2025: The Year in LLMs
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• Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]
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• iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
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• Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
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• Cameras and Lenses (2020)
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• Linux is good now
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Daily Hacker News for 2025-12-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on December 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Animated AI
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• Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux
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• Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
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• A Vulnerability in Libsodium
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• A faster heart for F-Droid
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• FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
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• OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
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• Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers
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• Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
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• I canceled my book deal
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