Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-01-10

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
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• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
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• The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
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• Lessons from 14 years at Google
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• Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
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• It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
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• There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout
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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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• Vietnam bans unskippable ads
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• Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
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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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• Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
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• Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
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• How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code
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• Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-01-03

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Floor796
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• How we lost communication to entertainment
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• Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML
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• Calendar
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• Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert
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• What an unprocessed photo looks like
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• Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
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• GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
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• Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
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• Google is dead. Where do we go now?
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• Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite
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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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• Linux is good now
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• A website to destroy all websites
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• Why users cannot create Issues directly
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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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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-12-27

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Go ahead, self-host Postgres
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• Backing up Spotify
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• Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
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• The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
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• A guide to local coding models
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• Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
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• Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]
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• Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers
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• Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
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• Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
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• X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
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• Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
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• Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
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• Tell HN: Merry Christmas
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• Ruby 4.0.0
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• We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
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• Maybe the default settings are too high
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• Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
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• Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
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• How uv got so fast
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-12-20

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me
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• Thin desires are eating life
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• 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by \"privacy\" extensions
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• alpr.watch
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• Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
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• No Graphics API
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• Announcing the Beta release of ty
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• Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
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• AI will make formal verification go mainstream
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• Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
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• Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
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• AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
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• Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
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• Mistral OCR 3
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• Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access
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• We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
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• History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
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• Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
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• Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
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• CSS Grid Lanes
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2025-12-13

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending December 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches
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• 4 billion if statements (2023)
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• Using LLMs at Oxide
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• I wasted years of my life in crypto
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• Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
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• The highest quality codebase
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• Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
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• Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
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• Ask HN: Should \"I asked $AI, and it said\" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
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• Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
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• PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
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• Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
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• 10 Years of Let's Encrypt
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• Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
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• Size of Life
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• Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
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• Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
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• Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
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• GPT-5.2
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• Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
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