YEAR · 2026 · HACKER NEWS

Hacker News2026 Year in Review

Monthly highlights from Hacker News across 2026. 15 sampled stories, each linked to the daily digest it came from.

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. Building for the Future (blog.cloudflare.com)
  2. Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (www.openwall.com)
  3. AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)