Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1006 points by 47thpresident | 235 comments
IndieWeb wiki page explaining POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere), the practice of posting content on your own site and copying it to other platforms.
751 points by simonw | 121 comments
A blog post on the Tempi app site examining whether Daft Punk deliberately chose an unusual, non-integer BPM tempo for "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" as a joke.
703 points by xpe | 253 comments
A GitHub issue in the Ghostty repository explaining that users must open a Discussion first, with only actionable items moved to the issue tracker.
547 points by Brajeshwar | 1089 comments
The Register feature marking IPv6's 30th anniversary, reviewing its history since RFC 1883 and why it hasn't replaced IPv4 yet remains relevant.
545 points by stared | 301 comments
Eurosurveillance open-access research article on HPV prevalence in cervical samples from Danish women vaccinated as girls, Trial23 cohort, 2017–2024.
537 points by yuppiepuppie | 263 comments
Blog post by Andrew Graham-Yooll on the promotion advice "try to take my position": doing the next-level job and taking on responsibility before getting the title.
525 points by PretzelFisch | 140 comments
GitHub wiki home page for FracturedJson, a family of utilities that format JSON compactly yet readably, with table-like alignment of similar lines.
503 points by KothuRoti | 346 comments
An X/Twitter post by Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, describing his personal Claude Code setup; the post content did not load.
446 points by wrxd | 166 comments
A personal blog post reflecting on ten years of tracking personal finances in plain text files using Beancount, importing monthly bank statements.
440 points by jackwilsdon | 232 comments
Pebble blog post from January 2, 2026 announcing the Pebble Round 2, a thin, round-faced smartwatch billed as the most stylish Pebble yet.
434 points by cyrc | 133 comments
A Medium post by Cristian Băluță describing how he, a software developer, built his own custom camera dubbed the Leica G9ii.
412 points by caminanteblanco | 106 comments
Ibrahim Diallo's 2019 blog post recounting how he charged $18,000 for building a single static HTML page as a contractor.
410 points by apetresc | 83 comments
The Public Domain Review blog post celebrating Public Domain Day 2026, highlighting works and creators entering the public domain on January 1, 2026.
407 points by microflash | 250 comments
Product page for the Clicks Communicator, a new mobile device with a physical keyboard designed for productivity rather than doomscrolling, open for reservations.
398 points by apayan | 193 comments
A Reddit r/confession post by a self-described developer at a major food delivery app; the captured page is Reddit's network-policy block notice.
366 points by Jommi | 72 comments
media.ccc.de listing of recorded talk videos from the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3: Power Cycles), held in Hamburg in December 2025.
351 points by WithinReason | 55 comments
Standard Ebooks blog post announcing 20 notable books entering the US public domain on Public Domain Day 2026, now free to read.
338 points by whoishiring | 210 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for January 2026, where company employees post job openings with location and remote details.
232 points by makemethrowaway | 33 comments
228 points by kg | 30 comments
213 points by todsacerdoti | 46 comments
![Screenshot of andrew.cmu.edu: The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/2/12d77dd1-6f0c-4797-bac3-9b436c811aa4.jpg)
173 points by chmaynard | 85 comments
160 points by pjmlp | 75 comments
156 points by ChrisArchitect | 143 comments
145 points by whoishiring | 259 comments
58 points by raybb | 18 comments
57 points by zdw | 11 comments
![Screenshot of media.ccc.de: US Government demands access to European police databases and biometrics [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/2/2c19b4e4-61e9-4aab-93d3-d8b28405207f.jpg)
54 points by beardyw | 42 comments
33 points by kvthweatt | 8 comments
