DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-01-16
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Cloudflare acquires Astro (astro.build)
- 02
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)
- 03
East Germany balloon escape (wikipedia.org)
- 04
Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence (embedding-shapes.github.io)
- 05
STFU (github.com/pankajtanwarbanna)
- 06
Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark (briarproject.org)
- 07
Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13 (openculture.com)
- 08
OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor (undeadly.org)
- 09
Just the Browser (justthebrowser.com)
- 10
Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (dell.com)
- 11
Data is the only moat (frontierai.substack.com)
- 12
List of individual trees (wikipedia.org)
- 13
Lock-Picking Robot (github.com/etinaude)
- 14
Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation (cloud.google.com)
- 15
Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing (robinlinacre.com)
- 16
Elasticsearch was never a database (paradedb.com)
- 17
Reading across books with Claude Code (pieterma.es)
- 18
Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory (acm.org)
- 19
Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says (bbc.com)
- 20
Interactive eBPF (ebpf.party)
- 21
My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)
- 22
Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing (jamanetwork.com)
- 23
Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains (shimmer.care)
- 24
Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see (fromjason.xyz)
- 25
Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)
- 26
HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)
- 27
Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)
- 28
What a Programmer Does (1967) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
- 29
Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation (mintlify.com)
- 30
The five orders of ignorance (2000) (acm.org)