HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-02

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere (indieweb.org)

    1078 points · HN #46468600

  2. 02

    Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? (madebywindmill.com)

    787 points · HN #46469577

  3. 03

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

    360 points · HN #46466074

  4. 04

    Clicks Communicator (clicksphone.com)

    422 points · HN #46467057

  5. 05

    HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark (eurosurveillance.org)

    591 points · HN #46463315

  6. 06

    Why users cannot create Issues directly (github.com/ghostty-org)

    773 points · HN #46460319

  7. 07

    Happy Public Domain Day 2026 (publicdomainreview.org)

    430 points · HN #46460440

  8. 08

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

    172 points · HN #46466073

  9. 09

    Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams (behind-the-enemy-lines.com)

    221 points · HN #46467677

  10. 10

    Linux kernel security work (kroah.com)

    189 points · HN #46469623

  11. 11

    Jank Lang Hit Alpha (github.com/jank-lang)

    252 points · HN #46468517

  12. 12

    Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011) (kleppmann.com)

    187 points · HN #46467651

  13. 13

    Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature (standardebooks.org)

    382 points · HN #46462702

  14. 14

    The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf] (cmu.edu)

    218 points · HN #46466734

  15. 15

    FracturedJson (github.com/j-brooke)

    575 points · HN #46464235

  16. 16

    Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged (cnn.com)

    511 points · HN #46456797

  17. 17

    Assorted less(1) tips (thechases.com)

    238 points · HN #46464120

  18. 18

    Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal (unixv4.dev)

    176 points · HN #46468283

  19. 19

    What you need to know before touching a video file (gist.github.com)

    376 points · HN #46404321

  20. 20

    Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone (punkt.ch)

    173 points · HN #46466364

  21. 21

    10 years of personal finances in plain text files (sgoel.dev)

    502 points · HN #46463644

  22. 22

    TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA (github.com/alanma23)

    135 points · HN #46468237

  23. 23

    39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos (ccc.de)

    438 points · HN #46464426

  24. 24

    Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt (enroll.sh)

    265 points · HN #46449852

  25. 25

    Marmot – A distributed SQLite server with MySQL wire compatible interface (github.com/maxpert)

    189 points · HN #46460676

  26. 26

    Parental controls aren't for parents (beasthacker.com)

    451 points · HN #46464652

  27. 27

    WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform (nullprogram.com)

    99 points · HN #46458624

  28. 28

    Matz 2/2: The trajectory of Ruby's growth, Open-Source Software today etc. (kaigaiiju.ch)

    112 points · HN #46393929

  29. 29

    Contact the ISS (ariss.org)

    117 points · HN #46405463

  30. 30

    FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1) (co.ua)

    150 points · HN #46462108