YEAR · 2026 · HACKER NEWS

2026 in Hacker News — OrangeBot.AI Archive

Monthly highlights from Hacker News across 2026. 18 sampled stories, each linked to the daily digest it came from.

This page is the 2026 annual archive for a single source: Hacker News. Instead of scrolling 365 daily digests, you get one mid-month sample per month — a 36-story highlight reel that captures what was being read, starred, or launched on Hacker News across the year. Each sampled story links directly to the original article plus the OrangeBot.AI daily digest it came from, so you can drill into the full day's feed with one click.

Hacker News is one of the eight sources OrangeBot.AI tracks daily. To see the latest 30 items (live), visit the Hacker News hub. For the full 2026 cross-source view, see 2026 in AI & Tech News. For the year-by-year history, browse the annual archive index.

January 2026(3 sampled)

  1. UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction (electrek.co)
  2. ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid (werd.io)
  3. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?

February 2026(3 sampled)

  1. I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)
  2. Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 (modern-css.com)
  3. Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations (arstechnica.com)

March 2026(3 sampled)

  1. The 49MB Web Page (thatshubham.com)
  2. Chrome DevTools MCP (developer.chrome.com)
  3. Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform (office.eu)

April 2026(3 sampled)

  1. Why are Flock employees watching our children? (substack.com)
  2. Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds (www.bloomberg.com)
  3. AI-assisted cognition endangers human development? (heidenstedt.org)

May 2026(3 sampled)

  1. I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis (twitter.com)
  2. California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down (arstechnica.com)
  3. ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline (twitter.com)

June 2026(3 sampled)

  1. A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer (roman.pt)
  2. Typst 0.15.0 (typst.app)
  3. Hetzner Price Adjustment (docs.hetzner.com)