HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-19

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Level S4 solar radiation event (noaa.gov)

    628 points · HN #46684056

  2. 02

    What came first: the CNAME or the A record? (cloudflare.com)

    466 points · HN #46681611

  3. 03

    Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results (9to5mac.com)

    618 points · HN #46680974

  4. 04

    Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025) (jon.bo)

    257 points · HN #46682518

  5. 05

    The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs (heelan.io)

    265 points · HN #46676081

  6. 06

    Dead Internet Theory (kudmitry.com)

    697 points · HN #46671731

  7. 07

    A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth (bitchat.free)

    636 points · HN #46675853

  8. 08

    Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees (ru.nl)

    537 points · HN #46676276

  9. 09

    Gas Town Decoded (alilleybrinker.com)

    219 points · HN #46624883

  10. 10

    The Code-Only Agent (rijnard.com)

    155 points · HN #46674416

  11. 11

    From Nevada to Kansas by Glider (weglide.org)

    176 points · HN #46641036

  12. 12

    Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience (qt.io)

    143 points · HN #46646080

  13. 13

    Provide agents with automated feedback (banay.me)

    169 points · HN #46656897

  14. 14

    Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry (science.org)

    327 points · HN #46682534

  15. 15

    AVX-512: First Impressions on Performance and Programmability (shihab-shahriar.github.io)

    125 points · HN #46610800

  16. 16

    The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets (jbecker.dev)

    233 points · HN #46680515

  17. 17

    Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code (joinformal.com)

    132 points · HN #46605155

  18. 18

    High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39 (bbc.com)

    277 points · HN #46673453

  19. 19

    Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back (calquio.com)

    314 points · HN #46673809

  20. 20

    American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis (kielinstitut.de)

    787 points · HN #46680212

  21. 21

    San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz (sfgate.com)

    220 points · HN #46674433

  22. 22

    Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) (upenn.edu)

    481 points · HN #46683205

  23. 23

    Targeted Bets: An alternative approach to the job hunt (seanmuirhead.com)

    133 points · HN #46684815

  24. 24

    CSS Web Components for marketing sites (2024) (hawkticehurst.com)

    132 points · HN #46679907

  25. 25

    GLM-4.7-Flash (huggingface.co)

    378 points · HN #46679872

  26. 26

    Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode (righto.com)

    116 points · HN #46632120

  27. 27

    Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026 (twitter.com/ghhughes)

    523 points · HN #46678205

  28. 28

    The space and motion of communicating agents (2008) [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)

    49 points · HN #46639897

  29. 29

    Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel (pipenet.dev)

    114 points · HN #46680597

  30. 30

    Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool (airmass.org)

    58 points · HN #46637937