HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-11

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe (noheger.at)

    2752 points · HN #46579864

  2. 02

    Don't fall into the anti-AI hype (antirez.com)

    1296 points · HN #46574276

  3. 03

    CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun (fulghum.io)

    775 points · HN #46580326

  4. 04

    I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too (notebookcheck.net)

    854 points · HN #46574707

  5. 05

    Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak (mitchellh.com)

    632 points · HN #46568794

  6. 06

    iCloud Photos Downloader (github.com/icloud-photos-downloader)

    653 points · HN #46578921

  7. 07

    Code and Let Live (fly.io)

    508 points · HN #46557825

  8. 08

    I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video] (youtube.com)

    451 points · HN #46539478

  9. 09

    This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser (iczelia.net)

    299 points · HN #46580864

  10. 10

    Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video] (youtube.com)

    347 points · HN #46543509

  11. 11

    Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)

    256 points · HN #46577242

  12. 12

    Poison Fountain (rnsaffn.com)

    242 points · HN #46577464

  13. 13

    Sampling at negative temperature (cavendishlabs.org)

    203 points · HN #46579374

  14. 14

    C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories (0xghost.dev)

    252 points · HN #46551602

  15. 15

    Gentoo Linux 2025 Review (gentoo.org)

    340 points · HN #46574769

  16. 16

    Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering (github.com/olaproeis)

    241 points · HN #46571980

  17. 17

    Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study (economist.com)

    218 points · HN #46569312

  18. 18

    A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go (github.com/medunes)

    138 points · HN #46531622

  19. 19

    CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool (bugsiki.dev)

    168 points · HN #46525236

  20. 20

    The Concise TypeScript Book (github.com/gibbok)

    237 points · HN #46573001

  21. 21

    My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated (alienchow.dev)

    269 points · HN #46572679

  22. 22

    “Food JPEGs” in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders (sethmlarson.dev)

    287 points · HN #46516807

  23. 23

    Elo – A data expression language which compiles to JavaScript, Ruby, and SQL (elo-lang.org)

    104 points · HN #46525389

  24. 24

    Vojtux – Unofficial Linux Distribution Aimed at Visually Impaired Users (github.com/vojtapolasek)

    125 points · HN #46525271

  25. 25

    Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more

    140 points · HN #46571149

  26. 26

    A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project (archlinux.page)

    98 points · HN #46572060

  27. 27

    'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019) (hollywoodreporter.com)

    83 points · HN #46507891

  28. 28

    Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned (twitter.com/sigkitten)

    321 points · HN #46578701

  29. 29

    A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease (bbc.com)

    195 points · HN #46572769

  30. 30

    Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults

    111 points · HN #46580652