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Predicted Stories for January 12, 2026
1. Instagram Breach Exposes 17.5M Accounts: Technical Analysis (krebsonsecurity.com)
1350 points by wglb 8 hours ago | 467 comments
2. One Year After the LA Fires: What Technology Learned (arstechnica.com)
890 points by jonbaer 10 hours ago | 356 comments
3. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince Responds to Italy GDPR Criticism (blog.cloudflare.com)
985 points by jgrahamc 6 hours ago | 645 comments
4. Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Your AI Conversations (theverge.com)
1120 points by ksec 9 hours ago | 423 comments
5. Show HN: Open alternative to Claude Code that works with any AI provider (github.com)
756 points by dev_freedom 12 hours ago | 234 comments
6. Trust Wallet Reveals Full Extent of $8.5M Chrome Extension Hack (techcrunch.com)
685 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | 312 comments
7. The Open Chaos Experiment: When Code Evolves Itself (simonwillison.net)
645 points by simonw 5 hours ago | 189 comments
8. Why Windows 11 Is So Slow: A Technical Deep Dive (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
825 points by nabla9 11 hours ago | 456 comments
9. How I Migrated 50 Servers from Windows to Linux in a Weekend (rachelbythebay.com)
545 points by rachelbythebay 8 hours ago | 234 comments
10. MCP Moving to Linux Foundation: What It Means for AI Agents (lwn.net)
620 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 267 comments
11. Ask HN: How are you handling the Chrome extension security crisis?
485 points by security_conscious 4 hours ago | 423 comments
12. Alphabet Search Antitrust Changes Begin: First Effects (theinformation.com)
565 points by belter 6 hours ago | 312 comments
13. Show HN: I built a Chrome extension audit tool after the recent hacks (github.com)
425 points by sec_dev 10 hours ago | 145 comments
14. European Space Agency Breach: Hacker '888' Claims Data Exfiltration (theregister.com)
485 points by DyslexicAtheist 9 hours ago | 178 comments
15. Fire Mapping Technology That Failed LA: A Postmortem (ieee.org)
385 points by Animats 2 days ago | 234 comments
16. Oh My Zsh: The Bloat Problem and Alternatives (blog.wesleyac.com)
445 points by wesleyac 1 day ago | 312 comments
17. Show HN: Real-time wildfire tracking map built after the LA fires (firemap.io)
365 points by fire_tech 8 hours ago | 123 comments
18. Git 2.52: The New Features Worth Knowing (github.blog)
425 points by ingve 1 day ago | 145 comments
19. How Dark Sky's Weather Predictions Worked: A Remembrance (blog.dshr.org)
385 points by JNRowe 2 days ago | 178 comments
20. Ask HN: What replaced Dark Sky for you?
285 points by weather_nerd 3 hours ago | 234 comments
21. Dell XPS Revival at CES 2026: First Real-World Tests (notebookcheck.net)
365 points by hardware_fan 10 hours ago | 156 comments
22. The Hidden Cost of AI Agent Memory: What Nobody Talks About (blog.tjcx.me)
485 points by thoughtcraft 7 hours ago | 189 comments
23. Show HN: Plain text project tracker in a single Python file (github.com)
315 points by minimalist_dev 6 hours ago | 98 comments
24. Python Type Checker 'ty' Hits Beta: Faster Than mypy (astral.sh)
565 points by simonw 1 day ago | 234 comments
25. Why I Left Big Tech for a Startup in 2026 (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
425 points by gergely 5 hours ago | 345 comments
26. The NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Myth vs Reality (digitalfoundry.net)
385 points by mikece 2 days ago | 178 comments
27. Markdown Took Over the World: The Full History (anil dash.com)
365 points by zdw 3 days ago | 145 comments
28. Show HN: Terminal-based disaster alert system for natural disasters (github.com)
265 points by emergency_dev 9 hours ago | 87 comments
29. C# Named Language of the Year Again: What It Means (devblogs.microsoft.com)
285 points by dotnet_fan 4 hours ago | 156 comments
30. The Greenland Shark DNA Repair Mechanism: Full Paper (nature.com)
215 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 67 comments

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