Hacker News on Sunday, 11 January 2026

The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe(noheger.at)

2688 points by happosai 9 months ago | 1158 comments

Blog post arguing that macOS Tahoe's large window corner radius makes resizing windows by dragging their corners harder, hurting usability.

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype(antirez.com)

1090 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 1334 comments

Blog post by antirez arguing that, despite his reservations, LLMs are going to change programming forever and people shouldn't dismiss AI out of hand.

I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too(notebookcheck.net)

782 points by smurda 9 months ago | 721 comments

Notebookcheck opinion column in which the author describes switching his main desktop from Windows 11 to Linux (Artix) and urges readers to do the same.

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun(fulghum.io)

711 points by websku 9 months ago | 483 comments

Blog post arguing that CLI agents like Claude Code make running a self-hosted home server easier and fun, even for non-sysadmins.

iCloud Photos Downloader(github.com)

603 points by reconnecting 9 months ago | 224 comments

GitHub repository for icloud_photos_downloader, an MIT-licensed command-line tool for downloading photos from iCloud.

Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them(swinburne.edu.au)

485 points by OptionOfT 9 months ago | 252 comments

Swinburne University news article explaining why some fabrics shrink in the wash and how to restore shrunken clothes.

Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode(cy.md)

406 points by CyberShadow 9 months ago | 135 comments

Security advisory describing an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the OpenCode AI coding assistant's local HTTP server, fixed in later versions.

Gentoo Linux 2025 Review(gentoo.org)

301 points by akhuettel 9 months ago | 153 comments

This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser(iczelia.net)

277 points by snoofydude 9 months ago | 73 comments

The next two years of software engineering(addyosmani.com)

262 points by napolux 9 months ago | 280 comments

Meta announces nuclear energy projects(about.fb.com)

244 points by ChrisArchitect 9 months ago | 250 comments

Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned(twitter.com)

240 points by behnamoh 9 months ago | 139 comments

My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated(alienchow.dev)

238 points by alienchow 9 months ago | 204 comments

The Olivetti Company(abortretry.fail)

220 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 61 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

220 points by david927 9 months ago | 698 comments

Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering(github.com)

219 points by OlaProis 9 months ago | 140 comments

Poison Fountain(rnsaffn.com)

219 points by atomic128 9 months ago | 128 comments

The Concise TypeScript Book(github.com)

204 points by javatuts 9 months ago | 49 comments

FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems(jakobemmerling.de)

192 points by jakobem 9 months ago | 64 comments

Sampling at negative temperature(cavendishlabs.org)

188 points by ag8 9 months ago | 54 comments

BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech(thedriven.io)

176 points by senti_sentient 9 months ago | 221 comments

Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users(engadget.com)

174 points by IvanAchlaqullah 9 months ago | 57 comments

A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease(bbc.com)

173 points by lewww 9 months ago | 116 comments

I'd tell you a UDP joke…(codepuns.com)

146 points by redmattred 9 months ago | 41 comments

Iran Shuts Down Starlink Internet for First Time(forbes.com)

143 points by neom 9 months ago | 84 comments

Elasticsearch was never a database(paradedb.com)

136 points by jamesgresql 9 months ago | 95 comments

Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021)(darkcephas.blogspot.com)

134 points by davikr 9 months ago | 41 comments

Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals(fox13seattle.com)

129 points by SilverElfin 9 months ago | 30 comments

Erich von Däniken has died(daniken.com)

110 points by Kaibeezy 9 months ago | 190 comments

M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)(maniek86.xyz)

106 points by rasz 9 months ago | 8 comments

I Built a 1 Petabyte Server from Scratch [video](youtube.com)

105 points by zdw 9 months ago | 36 comments

Bob Weir has died(rollingstone.com)

102 points by asix66 9 months ago | 18 comments

A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project(devblog.archlinux.page)

90 points by susam 9 months ago | 27 comments

Think of Pavlov(boz.com)

90 points by kiyanwang 9 months ago | 47 comments

Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults

84 points by rescrv 9 months ago | 13 comments

More than one hundred years of Film Sizes(wichm.home.xs4all.nl)

80 points by exvi 9 months ago | 18 comments

HTML-only conditional lazy loading (via preload and media)(orga.cat)

80 points by netol 9 months ago | 15 comments

Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line(belowthesurface.amsterdam)

79 points by stefanvdw1 9 months ago | 10 comments

guys why does armenian completely break Claude(twitter.com)

79 points by ag8 9 months ago | 43 comments

China applies to put 200K satellites in space after calling Starlink crash risk(scmp.com)

78 points by nkurz 9 months ago | 36 comments

What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)

77 points by nz 9 months ago | 8 comments

BasiliskII Macintosh 68k Emulator Ported to ESP32-P4 / M5Stack Tab5(github.com)

70 points by rcarmo 9 months ago | 11 comments

Happy 50th Birthday KIM-1(github.com)

65 points by JKCalhoun 9 months ago | 21 comments

Quake 1 Single-Player Map Design Theories (2001)(quaddicted.com)

64 points by Lammy 9 months ago | 12 comments

Systematically generating tests that would have caught Anthropic's top‑K bug(theorem.dev)

62 points by jasongross 9 months ago | 17 comments

DHS restricts congressional visits to ICE facilities in Minneapolis(npr.org)

62 points by mickle00 9 months ago | 10 comments

Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014)(linux.com)

61 points by righthand 9 months ago | 20 comments

"Scholars Will Call It Nonsense": The Structure of von Däniken's Argument (1987)(penn.museum)

59 points by Kaibeezy 9 months ago | 6 comments

Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs(arstechnica.com)

56 points by cebert 9 months ago | 36 comments

American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop"(americandialect.org)

56 points by ChrisArchitect 9 months ago | 15 comments

Show HN: 1D-Pong Game at 39C3(github.com)

56 points by oger 9 months ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Epstein IM – Talk to Epstein clone in iMessage(epstein.im)

38 points by RyanZhuuuu 9 months ago | 37 comments

Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load(github.com)

37 points by haasiy 9 months ago | 4 comments

Prime chains(johndcook.com)

36 points by ibobev 9 months ago | 8 comments

'F*ck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words(daringfireball.net)

35 points by chmaynard 9 months ago | 16 comments

Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink(timesofisrael.com)

35 points by ukblewis 9 months ago | 16 comments

Show HN: pgwire-replication - pure rust client for Postgres CDC(github.com)

34 points by sacs0ni 9 months ago | 6 comments

Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude(github.com)

34 points by deckardt 9 months ago | 26 comments

KaraDAV – Lightweight Nextcloud compatible WebDAV server(github.com)

30 points by indigodaddy 9 months ago | 2 comments

Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework(jsdev.space)

29 points by javatuts 9 months ago | 19 comments