Hacker News on Sunday, 4 January 2026

Lessons from 14 years at Google(addyosmani.com)

1555 points by cdrnsf 9 months ago | 643 comments

Addy Osmani's blog post sharing 21 lessons from 14 years as an engineer at Google, focused on people, alignment, and navigating work beyond code.

The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café(candost.blog)

757 points by mooreds 9 months ago | 425 comments

A personal blog essay about the experience and pleasure of sitting alone in a café during a staycation.

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero(karpathy.ai)

693 points by suioir 9 months ago | 63 comments

Andrej Karpathy's free video course page on building neural networks from scratch in Python, from backpropagation (micrograd) up to GPT-style language models.

How will the miracle happen today?(kk.org)

516 points by zdw 9 months ago | 252 comments

Kevin Kelly essay on The Technium reflecting on the dependable kindness of strangers he experienced while hitchhiking and traveling through Asia.

Claude Code On-the-Go(granda.org)

482 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 284 comments

A blog post describing how the author runs six parallel Claude Code agents from an iPhone using Termius, mosh, Tailscale, a Vultr VM, and push notifications via webhooks.

Web development is fun again(ma.ttias.be)

444 points by Mojah 9 months ago | 544 comments

Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)(fabiensanglard.net)

421 points by birdculture 9 months ago | 75 comments

Fabien Sanglard's article on how Capcom fixed the "World Warrier" typo in Street Fighter II's title screen just before shipping, part of his CPS-1 series.

Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS(github.com)

376 points by huseyinbabal 9 months ago | 191 comments

GitHub repository for taws, a terminal-based UI for viewing and managing AWS resources, written in Rust and MIT licensed.

Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis(scitechdaily.com)

327 points by nis0s 9 months ago | 127 comments

SciTechDaily article on Stanford Medicine research showing an anti-aging injection that regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis.

Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?(stats.stackexchange.com)

290 points by azeemba 9 months ago | 73 comments

Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work(howbrowserswork.com)

267 points by krasun 9 months ago | 35 comments

Can I start using Wayland in 2026?(michael.stapelberg.ch)

248 points by secure 9 months ago | 193 comments

Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician(koreaherald.com)

243 points by mikhael 9 months ago | 78 comments

Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)(medium.com)

203 points by jollyjerry 9 months ago | 56 comments

Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)(hillelwayne.com)

191 points by zahrevsky 9 months ago | 184 comments

The Gentle Seduction (1989)(skyhunter.com)

188 points by JumpCrisscross 9 months ago | 61 comments

Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo(jeffgeerling.com)

187 points by mikece 9 months ago | 162 comments

Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails(pentestpartners.com)

185 points by speckx 9 months ago | 45 comments

Moiré Explorer(play.ertdfgcvb.xyz)

171 points by Luc 9 months ago | 20 comments

Quake Brutalist Jam III(slipseer.com)

166 points by Venn1 9 months ago | 23 comments

KDE onboarding is good now(rabbitictranslator.com)

159 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 108 comments

FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers(rtfm.co.ua)

158 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 9 comments

JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine(zoo.js.org)

155 points by gurgunday 9 months ago | 65 comments

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)(lists.busybox.net)

153 points by csmantle 9 months ago | 119 comments

How Samba Was Written (2003)(download.samba.org)

152 points by tosh 9 months ago | 59 comments

Corroded: Illegal Rust(github.com)

147 points by csmantle 9 months ago | 42 comments

Agentic Patterns(github.com)

143 points by PretzelFisch 9 months ago | 27 comments

Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects(ripplegame.app)

135 points by mooreds 9 months ago | 34 comments

I changed my personality in six weeks(bbc.com)

128 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 114 comments

North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names(bismarcktribune.com)

123 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 83 comments

When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe(practical.engineering)

114 points by tape_measure 9 months ago | 66 comments

The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer(guille.site)

111 points by LolWolf 9 months ago | 61 comments

Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server(mattwie.se)

98 points by mattwiese 9 months ago | 46 comments

How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify(notes.xdavidhu.me)

91 points by xdavidhu 9 months ago | 41 comments

Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep(github.com)

90 points by rguiscard 9 months ago | 21 comments

GLSL Web CRT Shader(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

89 points by msephton 9 months ago | 33 comments

MyTorch – Minimalist autograd in 450 lines of Python(github.com)

88 points by iguana2000 9 months ago | 15 comments

Adding insular script like it's 1626(djmurphy.net)

83 points by sollewitt 9 months ago | 4 comments

Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them(fast.github.io)

82 points by andylokandy 9 months ago | 47 comments

How Thomas Mann Wrote the Magic Mountain(theguardian.com)

76 points by Caiero 9 months ago | 27 comments

The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)(bbc.com)

73 points by 1659447091 9 months ago | 117 comments

The PGP problem (2019)(latacora.com)

72 points by croemer 9 months ago | 93 comments

Pickle 1 AR Glasses (YC W25) May Be Fraudulent(twitter.com)

69 points by tragiclos 9 months ago | 15 comments

Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker(github.com)

65 points by wild_egg 9 months ago | 39 comments

Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code)(cleoselene.com)

64 points by brunovcosta 9 months ago | 39 comments

Cold-blooded software (2023)(dubroy.com)

63 points by dgroshev 9 months ago | 12 comments

Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)(afar.com)

60 points by quan 9 months ago | 31 comments

Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops?(en.wikipedia.org)

57 points by evolve2k 9 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config(github.com)

53 points by Bayram 9 months ago | 19 comments

Nightshade: Make images unsuitable for model training(nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu)

52 points by homebrewer 9 months ago | 27 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage(tryflux.ai)

50 points by danielsdk 9 months ago | 23 comments

Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage(github.com)

45 points by sampsonj 9 months ago | 19 comments

Show HN: An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update)(traceformer.io)

44 points by wafflesfreak 9 months ago | 17 comments

Pixoo Sign Client for Ruby(github.com)

44 points by 0x54MUR41 9 months ago | 4 comments

NSFW Acronyms for Programmers (Free eBook)(github.com)

42 points by fristovic 9 months ago | 27 comments

AI sycophancy panic(github.com)

42 points by firasd 9 months ago | 66 comments

Learning to Play Tic-Tac-Toe with Jax(joe-antognini.github.io)

41 points by antognini 9 months ago | 5 comments

The price of fame? Mortality risk among famous singers(jech.bmj.com)

41 points by ingve 9 months ago | 38 comments

OpenGitOps(opengitops.dev)

40 points by locknitpicker 9 months ago | 37 comments

Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)(shreevatsa.net)

40 points by ethanseal 9 months ago | 15 comments