HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-06

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Vietnam bans unskippable ads (saigoneer.com)

    1580 points · HN #46514677

  2. 02

    Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far (burkeholland.github.io)

    879 points · HN #46515696

  3. 03

    enclose.horse (enclose.horse)

    1217 points · HN #46509211

  4. 04

    Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone (github.com/rberg27)

    577 points · HN #46517458

  5. 05

    AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention (theregister.com)

    755 points · HN #46511153

  6. 06

    I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it (medium.com/cristi.baluta)

    466 points · HN #46466843

  7. 07

    Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) (phrack.org)

    341 points · HN #46518129

  8. 08

    Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy (geospy.ai)

    153 points · HN #46515948

  9. 09

    I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022) (stoppels.ch)

    264 points · HN #46506994

  10. 10

    Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics (booleanbiotech.com)

    185 points · HN #46518804

  11. 11

    Pebble Round 2 (repebble.com)

    481 points · HN #46465335

  12. 12

    High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it (arxiv.org)

    194 points · HN #46517319

  13. 13

    Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities (blgardner.github.io)

    380 points · HN #46511469

  14. 14

    Spherical Snake (kevinalbs.com)

    656 points · HN #46451768

  15. 15

    Strange.website (strange.website)

    220 points · HN #46506596

  16. 16

    CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs (chipsandcheese.com)

    136 points · HN #46519326

  17. 17

    Passing of Joe Mancuso (github.com/masoniteframework)

    191 points · HN #46516137

  18. 18

    The Post-American Internet (pluralistic.net)

    577 points · HN #46509019

  19. 19

    Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery

    85 points · HN #46515777

  20. 20

    Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons (caranddriver.com)

    391 points · HN #46514913

  21. 21

    65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform (philippdubach.com)

    503 points · HN #46512881

  22. 22

    GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button (zakhary.dev)

    201 points · HN #46507963

  23. 23

    Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing (arxiv.org)

    125 points · HN #46518996

  24. 24

    Adding insular script like it's 1626 (djmurphy.net)

    91 points · HN #46488883

  25. 25

    What to Do When the Trisector Comes (1983) [pdf] (ufv.ca)

    93 points · HN #46425819

  26. 26

    Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022) (kaspersky.com)

    237 points · HN #46464462

  27. 27

    Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? (akr.am)

    436 points · HN #46514692

  28. 28

    Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents (github.com/marcoaapfortes)

    81 points · HN #46512182

  29. 29

    C Is Best (2025) (sqlite.org)

    408 points · HN #46511470

  30. 30

    Interpreter – Offline screen translator for Japanese retro games (github.com/bquenin)

    93 points · HN #46460930