Hacker News on Saturday, 10 January 2026

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great(theverge.com)

647 points by rorylawless 9 months ago | 566 comments

A Verge first-person diary column by Nathan Edwards about replacing Windows with Linux on his gaming desktop, chapter one.

Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15(eupolicy.social)

647 points by colinprince 9 months ago | 440 comments

A Mastodon post on eupolicy.social introducing the Citroen C15; the post content did not load in the capture.

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak(mitchellh.com)

583 points by thorel 9 months ago | 122 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's blog post explaining the cause of a major memory leak in the Ghostty terminal emulator, how it was tracked down, and how it was fixed.

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books(trails.pieterma.es)

459 points by pmaze 9 months ago | 137 comments

A site showing thematic "trails" of linked excerpts across 100 non-fiction books, automatically discovered by Claude Code.

Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)(nightingaledvs.com)

416 points by skadamat 9 months ago | 168 comments

A Nightingale article eulogizing the Dark Sky weather app, shut down by Apple, and analyzing its data visualization design compared to Apple Weather.

Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project(openchaos.dev)

404 points by stefanvdw1 9 months ago | 83 comments

OpenChaos.dev is a site where the community votes on open GitHub pull requests, with the most-upvoted PR merged on a countdown timer.

AI is a business model stress test(dri.es)

316 points by amarsahinovic 9 months ago | 308 comments

New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis(libroot.org)

293 points by libroot 9 months ago | 123 comments

Oh My Zsh adds bloat(rushter.com)

285 points by fla 9 months ago | 255 comments

UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence(theregister.com)

275 points by DyslexicAtheist 9 months ago | 55 comments

Is Rust faster than C?(steveklabnik.com)

271 points by vincentchau 9 months ago | 307 comments

Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages for Text (2017)(karl-voit.at)

263 points by adityaathalye 9 months ago | 180 comments

Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study(brown.edu)

241 points by hhs 9 months ago | 160 comments

Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11(eteknix.com)

227 points by nabla9 9 months ago | 237 comments

Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you(webtiles.kicya.net)

213 points by dimden 9 months ago | 34 comments

Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study(economist.com)

189 points by marojejian 9 months ago | 172 comments

Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines(ycombinator.com)

145 points by alphabetatango 9 months ago | 103 comments

Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other(llmholdem.com)

144 points by projectyang 9 months ago | 79 comments

OLED, Not for Me(nuxx.net)

136 points by c0nsumer 9 months ago | 154 comments

Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)(adventure.com)

134 points by gyomu 9 months ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more

117 points by jamesponddotco 9 months ago | 40 comments

NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew(livescience.com)

101 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 96 comments

Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL(tanelpoder.com)

94 points by tanelpoder 9 months ago | 8 comments

UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors(reclaimthenet.org)

88 points by worldofmatthew 9 months ago | 30 comments

Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats (2025)(scienceclock.com)

83 points by akg130522 9 months ago | 10 comments

Sinclair C5(en.wikipedia.org)

78 points by jszymborski 9 months ago | 51 comments

Code Is Clay(campedersen.com)

74 points by ecto 9 months ago | 38 comments

Worst of breed software(worstofbreed.net)

70 points by facundo_olano 9 months ago | 28 comments

CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled(unmc.edu)

66 points by stopbulying 9 months ago | 16 comments

I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem(tiespetersen.substack.com)

64 points by thunderbong 9 months ago | 28 comments

You Can Just Buy Far-UVC(jefftk.com)

63 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 95 comments

Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History(diis.dk)

51 points by Anon84 9 months ago | 44 comments

Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI(github.com)

50 points by rendx 9 months ago | 17 comments

Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023)(popovicu.com)

47 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 8 comments

Is beef tallow making a comeback?(nytimes.com)

45 points by gjkood 9 months ago | 122 comments

Iran's internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time(theguardian.com)

42 points by robaato 9 months ago | 21 comments

Extracting books from production language models (2026)(arxiv.org)

41 points by logicprog 9 months ago | 11 comments

Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail(hsrail.org)

39 points by gok 9 months ago | 37 comments

Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document(theguardian.com)

39 points by isomorph 9 months ago | 16 comments

See it with your lying ears(lcamtuf.substack.com)

37 points by fratellobigio 9 months ago | 5 comments

Rubik's Cube in Prolog – Order(medium.com)

33 points by myth_drannon 9 months ago | 9 comments

All my new code will be closed-source from now on(twitter.com)

33 points by mvelbaum 9 months ago | 28 comments

Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language

30 points by goose0004 9 months ago | 18 comments

USDA suspends federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis(turnto10.com)

27 points by blurbleblurble 9 months ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Yuanzai World – LLM RPGs with branching world-lines(yuanzai.world)

25 points by yuanzaiworld 9 months ago | 4 comments

Maine's black market for baby eels(pressherald.com)

24 points by noleary 9 months ago | 10 comments

Show HN: Porting xv6 to HiFive Unmatched board(github.com)

24 points by eyengin 9 months ago | 0 comments

Beating the Tutorial(elliotmorris.net)

22 points by demorro 9 months ago | 3 comments

MIT Whirlwind I: A High-Speed Electronic Digital Computer (1951) [pdf](dome.mit.edu)

20 points by stmw 9 months ago | 4 comments

Kavanaugh Stop(en.wikipedia.org)

16 points by amarcheschi 9 months ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Hosting 100 Linux dev environments on one VM using LXC(github.com)

12 points by hsin003 9 months ago | 9 comments

Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in MI(cnbc.com)

12 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 9 months ago | 0 comments

Investing with GIFs: A Visual Guide(ft.com)

10 points by 7777777phil 9 months ago | 3 comments

The Stick in the Stream(randsinrepose.com)

10 points by zdw 9 months ago | 1 comments

MIT Non-AI License

8 points by dumindunuwan 9 months ago | 4 comments

I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy(audiotext.live)

6 points by functional_dev 9 months ago | 2 comments

2026 looks ominous for media, from Hollywood to journalism(npr.org)

6 points by andsoitis 9 months ago | 2 comments

Understanding the Types of Data in Data(ischool.syracuse.edu)

5 points by mahirsaid 9 months ago | 0 comments