HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-18

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video (radiancefields.com)

    772 points · HN #46670024

  2. 02

    Flux 2 Klein pure C inference (github.com/antirez)

    453 points · HN #46670279

  3. 03

    jQuery 4 (jquery.com)

    811 points · HN #46664755

  4. 04

    If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design (mastodon.social)

    854 points · HN #46663338

  5. 05

    Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014) (adamdrake.com)

    409 points · HN #46666085

  6. 06

    Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy (ossa-ma.github.io)

    584 points · HN #46668021

  7. 07

    Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling (theatlantic.com)

    515 points · HN #46670524

  8. 08

    A Social Filesystem (overreacted.io)

    510 points · HN #46665839

  9. 09

    Raising money fucked me up (yakkomajuri.com)

    391 points · HN #46660543

  10. 10

    ThinkNext Design (thinknextdesign.com)

    260 points · HN #46665310

  11. 11

    Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used (texasobserver.org)

    382 points · HN #46672150

  12. 12

    Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro (twitter.com/neelsomani)

    308 points · HN #46664631

  13. 13

    Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons (iconify.design)

    575 points · HN #46665411

  14. 14

    A free and open-source rootkit for Linux (lwn.net)

    218 points · HN #46666288

  15. 15

    Sins of the Children (asteriskmag.com)

    190 points · HN #46669663

  16. 16

    Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957) (abelard.org)

    193 points · HN #46664195

  17. 17

    Xous Operating System (xous.dev)

    183 points · HN #46619059

  18. 18

    The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar (opensourcesecurity.io)

    178 points · HN #46608342

  19. 19

    Wine 11.0 (winehq.org)

    439 points · HN #46611816

  20. 20

    Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup (cua.ai)

    154 points · HN #46670181

  21. 21

    Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine (lasagna.pizza)

    160 points · HN #46672181

  22. 22

    Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss (getdock.io)

    177 points · HN #46671952

  23. 23

    The longest Greek word (wikipedia.org)

    187 points · HN #46664638

  24. 24

    How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground (ianvisits.co.uk)

    159 points · HN #46598244

  25. 25

    Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer (tuned.org.uk)

    144 points · HN #46666963

  26. 26

    No knives, only cook knives (kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com)

    124 points · HN #46663268

  27. 27

    More sustainable epoxy thanks to phosphorus (empa.ch)

    91 points · HN #46614487

  28. 28

    Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024 (csail.mit.edu)

    123 points · HN #46663507

  29. 29

    What is Plan 9? (9front.org)

    184 points · HN #46667675

  30. 30

    Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents (github.com/dannote)

    115 points · HN #46665169