HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-20

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019) (longnow.org)

    565 points · HN #46695628

  2. 02

    Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack (github.com/markqvist)

    349 points · HN #46686273

  3. 03

    Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs (github.com/jordanhubbard)

    232 points · HN #46684958

  4. 04

    Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations (hakibenita.com)

    431 points · HN #46692116

  5. 05

    California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years (latimes.com)

    459 points · HN #46698660

  6. 06

    Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars (porsche.com)

    473 points · HN #46686640

  7. 07

    The Unix Pipe Card Game (punkx.org)

    257 points · HN #46694124

  8. 08

    Scaling long-running autonomous coding (simonwillison.net)

    182 points · HN #46686418

  9. 09

    I'm addicted to being useful (seangoedecke.com)

    603 points · HN #46690402

  10. 10

    Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher (novalauncher.com)

    255 points · HN #46696357

  11. 11

    Running Claude Code dangerously (safely) (emilburzo.com)

    351 points · HN #46690907

  12. 12

    Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction (entropicthoughts.com)

    457 points · HN #46693205

  13. 13

    Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries (reuters.com)

    776 points · HN #46692594

  14. 14

    British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran (phys.org)

    132 points · HN #46642458

  15. 15

    Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace (github.com/cakehonolulu)

    239 points · HN #46689065

  16. 16

    IP Addresses Through 2025 (potaroo.net)

    194 points · HN #46691835

  17. 17

    De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025) (jpmorgan.com)

    632 points · HN #46693346

  18. 18

    Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking (lemdro.id)

    406 points · HN #46686655

  19. 19

    Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One (stripe.com)

    163 points · HN #46696276

  20. 20

    The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs (anthropic.com)

    127 points · HN #46684708

  21. 21

    The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button (paulmakeswebsites.com)

    528 points · HN #46688971

  22. 22

    3D printing my laptop ergonomic setup (ntietz.com)

    174 points · HN #46686131

  23. 23

    Our approach to age prediction (openai.com)

    127 points · HN #46696699

  24. 24

    Improving the performance of WAT parser (gplane.win)

    109 points · HN #46629399

  25. 25

    Lunar Radio Telescope to Unlock Cosmic Mysteries (ieee.org)

    57 points · HN #46698623

  26. 26

    Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?

    461 points · HN #46691243

  27. 27

    Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard (skills.sh)

    135 points · HN #46697908

  28. 28

    x86 prefixes and escape opcodes flowchart (soc.me)

    98 points · HN #46687705

  29. 29

    Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity (klarasystems.com)

    93 points · HN #46622090

  30. 30

    Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying (karllorey.com)

    197 points · HN #46696300