HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-07

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016) (ucsf.edu)

    797 points · HN #46526740

  2. 02

    Eat Real Food (realfood.gov)

    1163 points · HN #46529237

  3. 03

    US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes (reuters.com)

    1052 points · HN #46531068

  4. 04

    Shipmap.org (shipmap.org)

    803 points · HN #46527161

  5. 05

    Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team (github.com/tailwindlabs)

    1457 points · HN #46527950

  6. 06

    LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf] (illinois.edu)

    392 points · HN #46526933

  7. 07

    A4 Paper Stories (susam.net)

    387 points · HN #46525888

  8. 08

    Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default (tailscale.com)

    367 points · HN #46531925

  9. 09

    A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time (byteshape.com)

    363 points · HN #46518573

  10. 10

    Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says (nprillinois.org)

    216 points · HN #46528353

  11. 11

    NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens (socket.dev)

    205 points · HN #46530448

  12. 12

    What *is* code? (2015) (bloomberg.com)

    132 points · HN #46458610

  13. 13

    ChatGPT Health (openai.com)

    438 points · HN #46531280

  14. 14

    Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification (wiley.com)

    210 points · HN #46520935

  15. 15

    How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI (wsj.com)

    236 points · HN #46528389

  16. 16

    Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs (pcgamer.com)

    580 points · HN #46527706

  17. 17

    Sergey Brin's Unretirement (inc.com)

    378 points · HN #46452641

  18. 18

    “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016) (lbstanza.org)

    279 points · HN #46525640

  19. 19

    The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup (twitter.com/bcherny)

    568 points · HN #46470017

  20. 20

    Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration (promptarmor.com)

    206 points · HN #46531565

  21. 21

    Many hells of WebDAV (candid.dev)

    170 points · HN #46527775

  22. 22

    Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI (github.com/x011)

    140 points · HN #46520926

  23. 23

    Vector graphics on GPU (gasiulis.name)

    170 points · HN #46473247

  24. 24

    We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program (adafruit.com)

    104 points · HN #46521029

  25. 25

    My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed (jasoneckert.github.io)

    207 points · HN #46521860

  26. 26

    Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle (psychotechnology.substack.com)

    192 points · HN #46527157

  27. 27

    On the slow death of scaling (ssrn.com)

    123 points · HN #46522308

  28. 28

    Claude Code CLI was broken (github.com/anthropics)

    181 points · HN #46532075

  29. 29

    Building voice agents with Nvidia open models (daily.co)

    126 points · HN #46528045

  30. 30

    Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE (github.com/reinauer)

    112 points · HN #46473726