Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-01-31

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
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• A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
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• A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
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• ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
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• First, make me care
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• Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
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• After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
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• France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
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• A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
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• TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
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• FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
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• Prism
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• Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
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• Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
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• Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
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• Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
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• Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
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• Moltbook
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• Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
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• Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-01-24

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• East Germany balloon escape
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• If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
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• jQuery 4
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• Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky \"Helicopter\" music video
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• Dead Internet Theory
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• Level S4 solar radiation event
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• Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
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• EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
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• Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
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• Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
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• We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
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• Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
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• In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels
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• GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
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• Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
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• I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
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• Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
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• Bugs Apple Loves
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• European Alternatives
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• Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-01-17

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending January 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• 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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• The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
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• CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
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• Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
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• Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
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• TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875
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• There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
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• Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
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• Scott Adams has died
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• AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
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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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• Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
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• The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible
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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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• Cloudflare acquires Astro
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• STFU
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• ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
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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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