hacker news

Friday, Jan 16, 2026

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Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts

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242 points

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2 days ago

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314 comments

122.

Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language

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67 points

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3 days ago

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32 comments

123.

Show HN: Voice Composer – Browser-based pitch detection to MIDI/strudel/tidal

dioptre.github.io

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30 points

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4 days ago

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6 comments

124.

Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?

50 points

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12 hours ago

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151 comments

125.

2026: This is AGI

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11 points

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9 hours ago

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14 comments

126.

How much of my observability data is waste?

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118 points

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2 days ago

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56 comments

127.

The unbearable frustration of figuring out APIs

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78 points

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2 days ago

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58 comments

128.

Sony wiped over 1k shovelware games off the PlayStation store without warning

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23 points

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11 hours ago

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6 comments

129.

I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

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58 points

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18 hours ago

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70 comments

130.

So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?

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360 points

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2 days ago

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272 comments

131.

Show HN: A 10KiB kernel for cloud apps

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66 points

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2 days ago

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11 comments

132.

The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe

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2739 points

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4 days ago

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1197 comments

133.

Within months, UK smartphones could be subjected to client scanning surveillance

telegraph.co.uk

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40 points

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14 hours ago

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6 comments

134.

Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it

jayzalowitz.github.io

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64 points

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kf

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14 hours ago

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36 comments

135.

Ask HN: How do you safely give LLMs SSH/DB access?

79 points

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2 days ago

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105 comments

136.

Annual Reboot: 52 Questions to Reflect and Reset

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10 points

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4 days ago

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1 comment

137.

Ask HN: How to make spamming us uncomfortable for LinkedIn and friends?

12 points

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20 hours ago

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7 comments

138.

Eigent: An open source Claude Cowork alternative

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27 points

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2 days ago

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4 comments

139.

1000 Blank White Cards

en.wikipedia.org

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361 points

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2 days ago

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63 comments

140.

I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue

simplethread.com

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310 points

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2 days ago

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137 comments

141.

Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK

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187 points

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2 days ago

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103 comments

142.

A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap

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366 points

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2 days ago

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78 comments

143.

Stop using natural language interfaces

tidepool.leaflet.pub

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126 points

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2 days ago

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66 comments

144.

Show HN: Beni AI – Real-time face-to-face AI companion

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6 points

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a day ago

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1 comment

145.

Every GitHub object has two IDs

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325 points

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3 days ago

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75 comments

146.

The hunt for a stolen Jackson Pollock

washingtonpost.com

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27 points

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2 days ago

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4 comments

147.

The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study

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111 points

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4 days ago

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40 comments

148.

Ask HN: Is Codex login down for all workspace (non-personal) users?

5 points

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9 hours ago

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2 comments

149.

Systematically generating tests that would have caught Anthropic's top‑K bug

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77 points

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5 days ago

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20 comments

150.

A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)

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144 points

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3 days ago

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71 comments