DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-01-23
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)
- 02
Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)
- 03
Proton spam and the AI consent problem (dbushell.com)
- 04
Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)
- 05
Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)
- 06
Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)
- 07
Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)
- 08
Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B (reuters.com)
- 09
Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com/ramonvermeulen)
- 10
Bugs Apple loves (bugsappleloves.com)
- 11
KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)
- 12
New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)
- 13
Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (cloudflare.com)
- 14
The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)
- 15
Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users (openai.com)
- 16
Mental Models (2018) (fs.blog)
- 17
Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020) (leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
- 18
AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)
- 19
Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes (compyle.ai)
- 20
Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift (swift.org)
- 21
Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)
- 22
AI Usage Policy (github.com/ghostty-org)
- 23
Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)
- 24
Gold fever, cold, and the true adventures of Jack London in the wild (smithsonianmag.com)
- 25
Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld (huggingface.co)
- 26
Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG (markgascoyne.co.uk)
- 27
Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (googleblog.com)
- 28
Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
- 29
Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (righto.com)
- 30
Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite (github.com/tursodatabase)