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Stories from January 17, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering (alexharri.com)
913 points by alexharri 17 hours ago | 112 comments
2.
The Dilbert Afterlife (astralcodexten.com)
471 points by rendall 1 day ago | 314 comments
3.
High-Level Is the Goal (bvisness.me)
250 points by tobr 2 days ago | 134 comments
4.
LLM Structured Outputs Handbook (nanonets.com)
354 points by vitaelabitur 2 days ago | 62 comments
5.
FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence (bfl.ai)
214 points by GaggiX 1 day ago | 56 comments
6.
ClickHouse acquires Langfuse (langfuse.com)
202 points by tin7in 19 hours ago | 92 comments
7.
Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city (github.com/originalankur)
240 points by originalankur 18 hours ago | 59 comments
8.
Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them (github.com/pabannier)
143 points by el_pa_b 20 hours ago | 45 comments
9.
US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it (electrek.co)
337 points by doener 18 hours ago | 307 comments
10.
We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon (ramp.com)
397 points by iamwil 5 days ago | 224 comments
11.
The recurring dream of replacing developers (caimito.net)
347 points by glimshe 14 hours ago | 273 comments
12.
An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm (bbc.com)
125 points by Tachyooon 12 hours ago | 144 comments
13.
The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime (theguardian.com)
147 points by c420 21 hours ago | 149 comments
14.
Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC (neodyme.io)
137 points by tripdout 1 day ago | 25 comments
15.
PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (theregister.com)
239 points by smurda 18 hours ago | 262 comments
16.
Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems (eugeneyan.com)
69 points by kurinikku 23 hours ago | 5 comments
17.
The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' (bbc.com)
94 points by 1659447091 17 hours ago | 66 comments
18.
Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity (github.com/trasta298)
63 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 11 comments
19.
There's no single best way to store information (quantamagazine.org)
81 points by 7777777phil 12 hours ago | 44 comments
20.
M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) (maniek86.xyz)
98 points by rasz 6 days ago | 8 comments
21.
The Olivetti Company (abortretry.fail)
150 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 30 comments
22.
Reducing Dependabot Noise (nesbitt.io)
60 points by zdw 6 days ago | 42 comments
23.
Experts warn of growing parrot crisis in Canada [video] (ctvnews.ca)
74 points by debo_ 5 days ago | 49 comments
24.
After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news (niemanlab.org)
193 points by giuliomagnifico 18 hours ago | 218 comments
25.
Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish (github.com/kip-dili)
148 points by nhatcher 8 hours ago | 49 comments
26.
The thing that brought me joy (stephenlewis.me)
81 points by monooso 10 hours ago | 37 comments
27.
Light Mode InFFFFFFlation (willhbr.net)
169 points by Fudgel 6 hours ago | 131 comments
28.
Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line (belowthesurface.amsterdam)
72 points by stefanvdw1 6 days ago | 10 comments
29.
Common misunderstandings about large software companies (philipotoole.com)
82 points by otoolep 5 days ago | 44 comments
30.
Lies, Damned Lies and Proofs: Formal Methods Are Not Slopless (lesswrong.com)
85 points by OgsyedIE 3 days ago | 42 comments

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