HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-25

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    First, make me care (gwern.net)

    813 points · HN #46757067

  2. 02

    A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch (github.com/tldev)

    692 points · HN #46754944

  3. 03

    Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study (usc.edu)

    598 points · HN #46749198

  4. 04

    A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times (columbia.edu)

    715 points · HN #46752151

  5. 05

    Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android (androidauthority.com)

    651 points · HN #46688804

  6. 06

    Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems (diljitpr.net)

    258 points · HN #46755115

  7. 07

    Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet (netzbremse.de)

    636 points · HN #46751899

  8. 08

    Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint (github.com/steffest)

    250 points · HN #46753708

  9. 09

    Doom has been ported to an earbud (doombuds.com)

    438 points · HN #46753484

  10. 10

    Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes (dlt.github.io)

    328 points · HN #46751826

  11. 11

    Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps (alasdairmonk.com)

    245 points · HN #46753301

  12. 12

    Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback (consumerrights.wiki)

    465 points · HN #46757944

  13. 13

    A Lament for Aperture (ikennd.ac)

    243 points · HN #46699697

  14. 14

    Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware (arstechnica.com)

    297 points · HN #46747827

  15. 15

    Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds (bbc.com)

    220 points · HN #46757162

  16. 16

    Two Weeks Until Tapeout (essenceia.github.io)

    194 points · HN #46749671

  17. 17

    I was right about ATProto key management (nora.codes)

    182 points · HN #46757357

  18. 18

    I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck (modulovalue.com)

    187 points · HN #46693460

  19. 19

    We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable (eclypsium.com)

    202 points · HN #46749053

  20. 20

    Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications (github.com/mitjafelicijan)

    138 points · HN #46753078

  21. 21

    Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012) (therpf.com)

    168 points · HN #46752261

  22. 22

    Bitwise conversion of doubles using only FP multiplication and addition (2020) (dougallj.wordpress.com)

    57 points · HN #46754522

  23. 23

    Challenges and Research Directions for Large Language Model Inference Hardware (arxiv.org)

    123 points · HN #46750214

  24. 24

    The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019) (bbc.com)

    316 points · HN #46758450

  25. 25

    Typography on Pencils (2023) (presentandcorrect.com)

    110 points · HN #46697876

  26. 26

    Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts (lr.org)

    157 points · HN #46753611

  27. 27

    Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday (windowscentral.com)

    221 points · HN #46750358

  28. 28

    Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days (github.com/nvidia)

    200 points · HN #46750425

  29. 29

    Show HN: Netfence – Like Envoy for eBPF Filters (github.com/danthegoodman1)

    58 points · HN #46754724

  30. 30

    ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors (turbopuffer.com)

    109 points · HN #46710747