Hacker News on Wednesday, 7 January 2026

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team(github.com)

1349 points by kevlened 9 months ago | 763 comments

A closed GitHub pull request on the tailwindcss.com repo proposing an /llms.txt endpoint serving text-only Tailwind CSS documentation for LLM consumption.

Eat Real Food(realfood.gov)

1062 points by atestu 9 months ago | 1453 comments

Official US government website promoting the "Eat Real Food" campaign on nutrition and dietary guidance.

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes(reuters.com)

994 points by kpw94 9 months ago | 1010 comments

Reuters article reporting that the US will ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, according to Trump; the page showed a device verification screen.

Shipmap.org(shipmap.org)

736 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 112 comments

Interactive animated map visualizing global commercial shipping movements during 2012, with cargo types and CO2 emissions, by Kiln and UCL Energy Institute.

Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)(ucsf.edu)

731 points by aldarion 9 months ago | 427 comments

UCSF news article on internal sugar industry papers showing it funded research that shifted blame for heart disease from sugar to fat; the page loaded as a block page.

Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs(pcgamer.com)

481 points by mossTechnician 9 months ago | 344 comments

PC Gamer article on Dell's CES 2026 briefing, where the company acknowledged consumers aren't buying PCs for AI features.

ChatGPT Health(openai.com)

401 points by saikatsg 9 months ago | 578 comments

OpenAI announcement introducing ChatGPT Health, a dedicated ChatGPT experience for health and wellness with a waitlist.

LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf](ctan.math.illinois.edu)

376 points by zahrevsky 9 months ago | 88 comments

PDF documentation for the coffeestains LaTeX package, which adds decorative coffee stain graphics to documents in four stain styles.

A4 Paper Stories(susam.net)

364 points by blenderob 9 months ago | 171 comments

A personal blog post by Susam Pal describing how he uses a sheet of A4 paper as an improvised measuring tool, with anecdotes.

Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default(tailscale.com)

348 points by traceroute66 9 months ago | 132 comments

Tailscale's changelog page listing updates to its client and service, including a change making state file encryption no longer enabled by default.

Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2(blog.yiningkarlli.com)

331 points by pantalaimon 9 months ago | 73 comments

Blog post by Disney Animation engineer Yining Karl Li sharing personal notes and thoughts from two years working on Zootopia 2.

JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952)(openculture.com)

307 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 119 comments

Changes to Android Open Source Project(source.android.com)

277 points by TechTechTech 9 months ago | 176 comments

“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)(lbstanza.org)

265 points by teleforce 9 months ago | 261 comments

Git Rebase for the Terrified(brethorsting.com)

243 points by aaronbrethorst 9 months ago | 250 comments

US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year(bloomberg.com)

238 points by toomuchtodo 9 months ago | 233 comments

How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI(wsj.com)

214 points by jbredeche 9 months ago | 279 comments

Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela(ft.com)

206 points by petethomas 9 months ago | 201 comments

Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says(nprillinois.org)

202 points by toomuchtodo 9 months ago | 73 comments

LMArena is a cancer on AI(surgehq.ai)

199 points by jumploops 9 months ago | 85 comments

NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens(socket.dev)

195 points by feross 9 months ago | 102 comments

The Q, K, V Matrices(arpitbhayani.me)

194 points by yashsngh 9 months ago | 75 comments

Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification(advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

191 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 114 comments

Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration(promptarmor.com)

184 points by takira 9 months ago | 28 comments

Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit(jasoneckert.github.io)

178 points by jasoneckert 9 months ago | 99 comments

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree(eff.org)

165 points by BeetleB 9 months ago | 115 comments

Play Aardwolf MUD(aardwolf.com)

161 points by caminanteblanco 9 months ago | 77 comments

CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool(blog.bugsiki.dev)

153 points by verte_zerg 9 months ago | 1 comments

Claude Code CLI was broken(github.com)

152 points by sneilan1 9 months ago | 155 comments

Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle(psychotechnology.substack.com)

141 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 101 comments

Many hells of WebDAV(candid.dev)

140 points by candiddevmike 9 months ago | 67 comments

A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go(github.com)

132 points by medunes 9 months ago | 24 comments

Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com(addons.mozilla.org)

131 points by maelito 9 months ago | 72 comments

Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium(dailynous.com)

129 points by loughnane 9 months ago | 47 comments

Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is(hecate.pink)

125 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 49 comments

LLM Problems Observed in Humans(embd.cc)

118 points by js216 9 months ago | 74 comments

Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI(github.com)

116 points by lobito25 9 months ago | 38 comments

Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users(github.com)

111 points by TheWiggles 9 months ago | 27 comments

I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine)(soap.coffee)

105 points by TheWiggles 9 months ago | 83 comments

On the slow death of scaling(papers.ssrn.com)

101 points by sethbannon 9 months ago | 23 comments

Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL(elo-lang.org)

95 points by ravenical 9 months ago | 29 comments

Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission(modernretail.co)

92 points by spenvo 9 months ago | 57 comments

We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program(blog.adafruit.com)

91 points by ptorrone 9 months ago | 41 comments

Building voice agents with Nvidia open models(daily.co)

89 points by kwindla 9 months ago | 8 comments

Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files(boingboing.net)

86 points by mikecarlton 9 months ago | 75 comments

Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser(bikemap.nyc)

86 points by freemanjiang 9 months ago | 28 comments

A tab hoarder's journey to sanity(twitter.com)

75 points by borisandcrispin 9 months ago | 85 comments

Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml(github.com)

67 points by noelwelsh 9 months ago | 17 comments

Most websites don't need cookie consent banners(block81.com)

66 points by pickup191 9 months ago | 44 comments

Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress(newsweek.com)

66 points by ekropotin 9 months ago | 41 comments

The Target forensics lab (2024)(thehorizonsun.com)

64 points by jeromechoo 9 months ago | 109 comments

Ansible battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, Nginx, MySQL(github.com)

64 points by walterbell 9 months ago | 11 comments

Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine(vibeandscribe.xyz)

63 points by ryanthedev 9 months ago | 32 comments

XMPP and Metadata(blog.mathieui.net)

63 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 19 comments

Japan's Skyscraper Factories (2021)(construction-physics.com)

62 points by Pikamander2 9 months ago | 1 comments

The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System(schmidtsciences.org)

58 points by pppone 9 months ago | 44 comments

Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML(github.com)

58 points by tosh 9 months ago | 38 comments

The Case for Nushell (2023)(sophiajt.com)

57 points by ravenical 9 months ago | 40 comments

We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole(pcloadletter.dev)

56 points by ronbenton 9 months ago | 70 comments

HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip(hp.com)

53 points by tonymet 9 months ago | 77 comments