Hacker News on Saturday, 3 January 2026

Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes(reuters.com)

1676 points by jumpocelot 9 months ago | 4041 comments

Reuters breaking news report on a column of smoke and loud noises in Caracas, later updated with Trump saying Venezuela's Maduro was captured after strikes.

Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time(data.stackexchange.com)

1397 points by maartin0 9 months ago | 827 comments

A Stack Exchange Data Explorer query graphing the total monthly number of Stack Overflow questions over time; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop(xeiaso.net)

767 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 572 comments

Xe Iaso's blog note announcing a switch from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux as their main desktop OS in 2026, criticizing Microsoft's recent Windows changes.

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025(refactoringenglish.com)

623 points by mtlynch 9 months ago | 124 comments

Michael Lynch's Refactoring English post ranking the most popular personal blogs on Hacker News in 2025 by cumulative upvotes, with a chart.

The suck is why we're here(nik.art)

421 points by herbertl 9 months ago | 247 comments

A daily blog post by Nik reflecting on an AI model trained to imitate his writing and arguing that the struggle of writing is the point.

Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet(neowin.net)

360 points by taubek 9 months ago | 294 comments

Neowin news report that Microsoft has quietly removed the official phone-based method for activating Windows 11/10 without an internet connection.

The C3 Programming Language(c3-lang.org)

348 points by y1n0 9 months ago | 212 comments

Homepage of the C3 programming language, a C-like systems language, with links to docs, examples, downloads, and current version 0.7.8.

Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible(docs.swifdroid.com)

279 points by mihael 9 months ago | 165 comments

Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet(neowin.net)

274 points by josephcsible 9 months ago | 197 comments

Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas(theguardian.com)

229 points by beardyw 9 months ago | 178 comments

Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second(lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me)

193 points by Loeffelmann 9 months ago | 119 comments

China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron(ic-pcb.com)

180 points by walterbell 9 months ago | 74 comments

IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf](github.com)

159 points by shenli3514 9 months ago | 39 comments

Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024)(hackster.io)

152 points by walterbell 9 months ago | 59 comments

The Kimwolf botnet is stalking your local network(krebsonsecurity.com)

147 points by SamValYlieRcHE2 9 months ago | 42 comments

Vector graphics on GPU(gasiulis.name)

145 points by gsf_emergency_6 9 months ago | 33 comments

Recursive Language Models(arxiv.org)

135 points by schmuhblaster 9 months ago | 23 comments

Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

121 points by johnwheeler 9 months ago | 81 comments

Take One Small Step(thinkhuman.com)

116 points by jamesgill 9 months ago | 25 comments

X-Clacks-Overhead(hleb.dev)

108 points by hleb_dev 9 months ago | 37 comments

A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)(nullprogram.com)

97 points by ibobev 9 months ago | 22 comments

Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic(twitter.com)

93 points by nomilk 9 months ago | 68 comments

Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time(xr0.dev)

93 points by Alifatisk 9 months ago | 29 comments

Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture(robotsinplainenglish.com)

90 points by ripe 9 months ago | 56 comments

Reverse Engineering the Epson FilmScan 200 for Classic Mac(ronangaillard.github.io)

87 points by j_leboulanger 9 months ago | 7 comments

Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE(github.com)

84 points by doener 9 months ago | 35 comments

Alien: Braun Aromaster KF 20 Coffee Makers (2012)(alienexplorations.blogspot.com)

83 points by exvi 9 months ago | 26 comments

Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack(corviont.com)

82 points by packet_mover 9 months ago | 24 comments

Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024)(yosefk.com)

79 points by hun3 9 months ago | 13 comments

Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone(github.com)

79 points by yxl448 9 months ago | 28 comments

The Riven Diffs – Seeing Riven (1997) Differently(glthr.com)

74 points by glth 9 months ago | 8 comments

Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models(arxiv.org)

73 points by remexre 9 months ago | 12 comments

Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions(tallyai.money)

73 points by ahmedatia 9 months ago | 59 comments

Formal methods only solve half my problems(brooker.co.za)

64 points by signa11 9 months ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone(stetsonblake.com)

63 points by stets 9 months ago | 55 comments

Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office(apoorv.page)

63 points by quacky_batak 9 months ago | 30 comments

JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast(waspdev.com)

60 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 63 comments

'Doomsday fish': Once-in-a-lifetime sea creature encountered in Monterey Bay(sfgate.com)

57 points by sipofwater 9 months ago | 19 comments

As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover(science.org)

56 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 46 comments

Pole of Inaccessibility(en.wikipedia.org)

54 points by benbreen 9 months ago | 11 comments

Adventure 751 (1980)(bluerenga.blog)

51 points by quuxplusone 9 months ago | 4 comments

The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling(blog.appsignal.com)

50 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 44 comments

Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem(totalhealthoptimization.com)

50 points by brandonb 9 months ago | 27 comments

Becoming a Centenarian(newyorker.com)

44 points by mrjaeger 9 months ago | 3 comments

Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star(phys.org)

42 points by wglb 9 months ago | 9 comments

Japan joining growing global trend of declining democracy(asahi.com)

42 points by wahnfrieden 9 months ago | 31 comments

Not for human consumption(vectorculture.substack.com)

41 points by ashergill 9 months ago | 16 comments

Multiple explosions in Venezuela's capital Caracas(cnn.com)

39 points by breppp 9 months ago | 18 comments

Anti-cheat evolution in Windows 11(andrea-allievi.com)

35 points by davikr 9 months ago | 23 comments

1970 Paris, cut into a grid and photographed(paris1970.jeantho.eu)

35 points by panic 9 months ago | 7 comments

Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela(wsj.com)

34 points by clanky 9 months ago | 16 comments

Busy Is the New Stupid(cisotradecraft.com)

33 points by escargot 9 months ago | 10 comments

Rust is beyond object-oriented, part 3: Inheritance (2023)(thecodedmessage.com)

32 points by zahrevsky 9 months ago | 39 comments

Show HN: Foundertrace – chain of YC startups founded by its employees(foundertrace.com)

31 points by loondri 9 months ago | 7 comments

Advanced Rail Energy Storage of North America(aresnorthamerica.com)

31 points by tomjakubowski 9 months ago | 16 comments

Proving Liveness with TLA(roscidus.com)

28 points by ibobev 9 months ago | 1 comments

Comparing benefits of every-third-day vs. daily low-dose aspirin therapy (2001)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

27 points by walterbell 9 months ago | 12 comments

Google engineer says Claude Code built in one hour what her team spent a year on(the-decoder.com)

27 points by ksec 9 months ago | 29 comments

Zeit v1(xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

25 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 5 comments

At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas(apnews.com)

20 points by mudil 9 months ago | 7 comments