HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-12

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)

    1298 points · HN #46593022

  2. 02

    Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids (smartere.dk)

    752 points · HN #46587934

  3. 03

    TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875 (github.com/haykgrigo3)

    737 points · HN #46590280

  4. 04

    Postal Arbitrage (walzr.com)

    559 points · HN #46591708

  5. 05

    Date is out, Temporal is in (piccalil.li)

    464 points · HN #46589658

  6. 06

    LLVM: The bad parts (npopov.com)

    389 points · HN #46588837

  7. 07

    Apple picks Gemini to power Siri (cnbc.com)

    1038 points · HN #46589675

  8. 08

    Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode (cy.md)

    432 points · HN #46581095

  9. 09

    The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video] (youtube.com)

    338 points · HN #46593395

  10. 10

    Show HN: AI in SolidWorks (trylad.com)

    191 points · HN #46591100

  11. 11

    Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024) (bellard.org)

    233 points · HN #46593802

  12. 12

    Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients (archaeologist.dev)

    350 points · HN #46586766

  13. 13

    Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C (github.com/z-libs)

    214 points · HN #46587804

  14. 14

    Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy (cornell.edu)

    472 points · HN #46587536

  15. 15

    The next two years of software engineering (addyosmani.com)

    328 points · HN #46580703

  16. 16

    FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems (jakobemmerling.de)

    213 points · HN #46580136

  17. 17

    Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49 (bbc.com)

    192 points · HN #46585947

  18. 18

    JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) (openculture.com)

    322 points · HN #46526896

  19. 19

    Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux (github.com/er-bharat)

    235 points · HN #46588132

  20. 20

    39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video] (ccc.de)

    270 points · HN #46553137

  21. 21

    Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2 (yiningkarlli.com)

    350 points · HN #46525639

  22. 22

    Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager (github.com/njbrake)

    118 points · HN #46588905

  23. 23

    Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon (lesswrong.com)

    123 points · HN #46515625

  24. 24

    Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024) (cloudamqp.com)

    111 points · HN #46591402

  25. 25

    Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions (gripdev.xyz)

    155 points · HN #46587498

  26. 26

    Uncrossy (uncrossy.com)

    195 points · HN #46582762

  27. 27

    Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load (github.com/sarusso)

    84 points · HN #46592376

  28. 28

    Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig (lightpanda.io)

    199 points · HN #46586179

  29. 29

    Xfce is great (rubenerd.com)

    316 points · HN #46584173

  30. 30

    Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode (taylorkolasinski.com)

    121 points · HN #46588572