HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-24

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp (birdy.chat)

    725 points · HN #46746476

  2. 02

    Banned C++ features in Chromium (googlesource.com)

    242 points · HN #46737447

  3. 03

    Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms (twitter.com/nicerinperson)

    521 points · HN #46743908

  4. 04

    Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered (windowscentral.com)

    537 points · HN #46743154

  5. 05

    Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires (thehftguy.com)

    480 points · HN #46742362

  6. 06

    Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data) (albedo.com)

    219 points · HN #46747119

  7. 07

    Some C habits I employ for the modern day (unix.dog)

    221 points · HN #46676125

  8. 08

    Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison (the-diy-life.com)

    219 points · HN #46745922

  9. 09

    Maze Algorithms (2017) (jamisbuck.org)

    183 points · HN #46737202

  10. 10

    How I estimate work (seangoedecke.com)

    548 points · HN #46742389

  11. 11

    European Alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)

    810 points · HN #46731976

  12. 12

    Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

    265 points · HN #46731068

  13. 13

    Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?

    212 points · HN #46744807

  14. 14

    Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance (comma.ai)

    353 points · HN #46740029

  15. 15

    Internet Archive's Storage (dshr.org)

    296 points · HN #46694618

  16. 16

    Memory layout in Zig with formulas (raymondtana.github.io)

    140 points · HN #46744647

  17. 17

    Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro (tansu.io)

    118 points · HN #46690779

  18. 18

    Extracting verified C++ from the Rocq theorem prover at Bloomberg (bloomberg.github.io)

    129 points · HN #46689631

  19. 19

    Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public (sharedclaude.com)

    90 points · HN #46741923

  20. 20

    I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog (micahcantor.com)

    301 points · HN #46747366

  21. 21

    Agent orchestration for the timid (substack.com)

    128 points · HN #46746681

  22. 22

    Understanding Rust Closures (vandecreme.net)

    68 points · HN #46746266

  23. 23

    When employees feel slighted, they work less (upenn.edu)

    353 points · HN #46691108

  24. 24

    “Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow (npr.org)

    182 points · HN #46740748

  25. 25

    80386 Multiplication and Division (nand2mario.github.io)

    108 points · HN #46741482

  26. 26

    Traintrackr – Live LED Maps (traintrackr.co.uk)

    100 points · HN #46676061

  27. 27

    Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin (github.com/nrrb)

    216 points · HN #46745233

  28. 28

    Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue

    225 points · HN #46696283

  29. 29

    Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents (simonwillison.net)

    73 points · HN #46738853

  30. 30

    Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite (sqlite.org)

    189 points · HN #46742635