HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-27

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found (nytimes.com)

    511 points · HN #46781530

  2. 02

    A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks (twitter.com/karpathy)

    913 points · HN #46771564

  3. 03

    FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE (nbcnews.com)

    955 points · HN #46783254

  4. 04

    TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues (cnn.com)

    1495 points · HN #46779809

  5. 05

    Prism (openai.com)

    781 points · HN #46783752

  6. 06

    Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor (alexxcons.github.io)

    370 points · HN #46779645

  7. 07

    Doing the thing is doing the thing (softwaredesign.ing)

    585 points · HN #46776155

  8. 08

    Heathrow scraps liquid container limit (bbc.com)

    632 points · HN #46736815

  9. 09

    Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse (windowscentral.com)

    438 points · HN #46766526

  10. 10

    The hidden engineering of runways (practical.engineering)

    419 points · HN #46694193

  11. 11

    Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company (amutable.com)

    375 points · HN #46784572

  12. 12

    Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC (emsh.cat)

    324 points · HN #46779522

  13. 13

    AI2: Open Coding Agents (allenai.org)

    253 points · HN #46783017

  14. 14

    SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned (haveibeenpwned.com)

    210 points · HN #46782930

  15. 15

    Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model (kimi.com)

    502 points · HN #46775961

  16. 16

    I made my own Git (tonystr.net)

    382 points · HN #46778341

  17. 17

    Time Station Emulator (github.com/kangtastic)

    241 points · HN #46786183

  18. 18

    AI code and software craft (alexwennerberg.com)

    249 points · HN #46769188

  19. 19

    A list of fun destinations for telnet (telnet.org)

    338 points · HN #46775135

  20. 20

    Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video

    133 points · HN #46783600

  21. 21

    Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son (web3isgoinggreat.com)

    403 points · HN #46787521

  22. 22

    Parametric CAD in Rust (campedersen.com)

    241 points · HN #46786196

  23. 23

    I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor (msn.com)

    243 points · HN #46772495

  24. 24

    Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary (joshtumath.uk)

    120 points · HN #46784977

  25. 25

    U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office (science.org)

    576 points · HN #46784263

  26. 26

    OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing (openssl-library.org)

    102 points · HN #46782662

  27. 27

    Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot (github.com/moltbot)

    249 points · HN #46783863

  28. 28

    TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin (bbc.com)

    200 points · HN #46786237

  29. 29

    Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals (bbc.com)

    221 points · HN #46776454

  30. 30

    Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza (github.com/velox-apps)

    173 points · HN #46687729