HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-09

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    How will the miracle happen today? (kk.org)

    542 points · HN #46489514

  2. 02

    “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI” (mathstodon.xyz/tao)

    619 points · HN #46560445

  3. 03

    Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux (kagi.com)

    474 points · HN #46553343

  4. 04

    JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters (dwitter.net)

    340 points · HN #46557489

  5. 05

    Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear (specr.net)

    565 points · HN #46556210

  6. 06

    Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017) (archive.org)

    280 points · HN #46546614

  7. 07

    Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator (donutthejedi.com)

    166 points · HN #46557879

  8. 08

    Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows (nytimes.com)

    144 points · HN #46547962

  9. 09

    RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game? (scottjg.com)

    283 points · HN #46558148

  10. 10

    Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok (sdan.io)

    330 points · HN #46557029

  11. 11

    Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

    412 points · HN #46550895

  12. 12

    The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app (xdaforums.com)

    547 points · HN #46555963

  13. 13

    Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions (github.com/anomalyco)

    625 points · HN #46549823

  14. 14

    Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side (puzer.github.io)

    172 points · HN #46511903

  15. 15

    Why I left iNaturalist (kueda.net)

    271 points · HN #46548940

  16. 16

    Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time (github.com/richhickson)

    161 points · HN #46544524

  17. 17

    Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023) (medium.com/infosec-watchtower)

    221 points · HN #46489232

  18. 18

    My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it (matthewrocklin.com)

    165 points · HN #46557057

  19. 19

    European Commission issues call for evidence on open source (lwn.net)

    447 points · HN #46550912

  20. 20

    The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer (guille.site)

    123 points · HN #46492019

  21. 21

    Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024) (hackster.io)

    168 points · HN #46478558

  22. 22

    What happened to WebAssembly (emnudge.dev)

    350 points · HN #46551044

  23. 23

    How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022) (ezzeriesa.notion.site)

    138 points · HN #46554652

  24. 24

    Systematically Improving Espresso: Mathematical Modeling and Experiment (2020) (cell.com)

    77 points · HN #46466438

  25. 25

    Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression (sciencedaily.com)

    402 points · HN #46557233

  26. 26

    Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes

    126 points · HN #46549444

  27. 27

    London–Calcutta bus service (wikipedia.org)

    367 points · HN #46554462

  28. 28

    How Samba Was Written (2003) (samba.org)

    200 points · HN #46486545

  29. 29

    Making Magic Leap past Nvidia's secure bootchain and breaking Tesla Autopilots (ccc.de)

    82 points · HN #46454160

  30. 30

    Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface (media.mit.edu)

    73 points · HN #46550453