HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-13

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap (questdb.com)

    370 points · HN #46609630

  2. 02

    AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (reddit.com)

    949 points · HN #46605490

  3. 03

    Scott Adams has died (youtube.com)

    1069 points · HN #46602102

  4. 04

    The Tulip Creative Computer (github.com/shorepine)

    243 points · HN #46603995

  5. 05

    Are two heads better than one? (eieio.games)

    210 points · HN #46603111

  6. 06

    Some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature (nature.com)

    161 points · HN #46540126

  7. 07

    How to make a damn website (2024) (lmnt.me)

    246 points · HN #46604250

  8. 08

    The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)

    157 points · HN #46557733

  9. 09

    No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams (ablg.io)

    310 points · HN #46605854

  10. 10

    Text-based web browsers (cssence.com)

    288 points · HN #46597518

  11. 11

    Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests (theguardian.com)

    415 points · HN #46603535

  12. 12

    Apple Creator Studio (apple.com)

    515 points · HN #46601157

  13. 13

    Chromium Has Merged JpegXL (googlesource.com)

    451 points · HN #46597927

  14. 14

    Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir (github.com/finbarr)

    122 points · HN #46592344

  15. 15

    We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers (metabrainz.org)

    465 points · HN #46608840

  16. 16

    Git Rebase for the Terrified (brethorsting.com)

    266 points · HN #46530920

  17. 17

    Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home (buckscountybeacon.com)

    390 points · HN #46600850

  18. 18

    Implementing a web server in a single printf() call (2014) (tinyhack.com)

    80 points · HN #46549714

  19. 19

    Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation (python.org)

    411 points · HN #46601902

  20. 20

    Google removes AI health summaries (arstechnica.com)

    226 points · HN #46595419

  21. 21

    Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph (visualstudio.com)

    135 points · HN #46605675

  22. 22

    Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011 (primoco.me)

    159 points · HN #46599341

  23. 23

    Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk (coywolf.com)

    349 points · HN #46605553

  24. 24

    Why BM25 queries with more terms can be faster (and other scaling surprises) (turbopuffer.com)

    53 points · HN #46541848

  25. 25

    Scott Adams has died (usatoday.com)

    424 points · HN #46603431

  26. 26

    A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021) (theverge.com)

    146 points · HN #46605950

  27. 27

    What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 (scotthelme.co.uk)

    243 points · HN #46602532

  28. 28

    Mozilla's open source AI strategy (blog.mozilla.org)

    192 points · HN #46599897

  29. 29

    Show HN: SnackBase – Open-source, GxP-compliant back end for Python teams (snackbase.dev)

    70 points · HN #46600092

  30. 30

    Inlining – The Ultimate Optimisation (xania.org)

    63 points · HN #46555297