hacker news

Friday, Jan 16, 2026

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Why senior engineers let bad projects fail

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187 points

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8 hours ago

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127 comments

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Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever

smithsonianmag.com

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144 points

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16 hours ago

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38 comments

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25 Years of Wikipedia

wikipedia25.org

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480 points

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17 hours ago

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389 comments

34.

Use of Bayesian methodology in clinical trials of drug and biological products [pdf]

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58 points

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brendanashworth

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a day ago

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17 comments

35.

Ask HN: Share your personal website

854 points

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2 days ago

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2231 comments

36.

Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework

gist.github.com

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103 points

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2 days ago

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38 comments

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America's Throwaway Spies: How the CIA Failed Iranian Informants in Tehran

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14 points

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2 hours ago

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0 comments

38.

Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)

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125 points

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16 hours ago

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22 comments

39.

Design and Implementation of Sprites

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142 points

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15 hours ago

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101 comments

40.

A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language

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28 points

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5 days ago

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2 comments

41.

Playing Arcade Mahjong at Home? Or is it just a Mirage?

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14 points

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4 days ago

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7 comments

42.

Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)

110 points

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2 days ago

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21 comments

43.

How I learned everything I know about programming

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56 points

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11 hours ago

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36 comments

44.

The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)

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139 points

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20 hours ago

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54 comments

45.

Remails: A European Mail Transfer Agent

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32 points

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9 hours ago

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4 comments

46.

The <Geolocation> HTML Element

developer.chrome.com

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105 points

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2 days ago

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59 comments

47.

Noninvasive brain treatment for depression proves helpful

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16 points

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3 hours ago

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0 comments

48.

Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website

35 points

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12 hours ago

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15 comments

49.

Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

362 points

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2 days ago

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144 comments

50.

The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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771 points

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a day ago

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144 comments

51.

The Executive Assistant Paradox: Why AI Makes This Role Critical, Not Obsolete

vleech.substack.com

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4 points

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an hour ago

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0 comments

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Show HN: Control Claude permissions using a cloud-based decision table UI

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12 points

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12 hours ago

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8 comments

53.

Have Taken Up Farming

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206 points

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a day ago

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132 comments

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Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR

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117 points

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2 days ago

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47 comments

55.

Everything you need to know about act() in React tests

howtotestfrontend.com

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12 points

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5 days ago

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0 comments

56.

Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

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214 points

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a day ago

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102 comments

57.

U.S. carbon pollution rose in 2025, a reversal from prior years

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61 points

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8 hours ago

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19 comments

58.

Z80 Membership Card

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102 points

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4 days ago

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31 comments

59.

Show HN: Tusk Drift – Turn production traffic into API tests

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20 points

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12 hours ago

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0 comments

60.

We Gave Our Browser Agent a 3MB Data Warehouse

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11 points

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14 hours ago

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2 comments