HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-28

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux (himthe.dev)

    1871 points · HN #46795864

  2. 02

    ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data (eff.org)

    1475 points · HN #46756117

  3. 03

    Airfoil (2024) (ciechanow.ski)

    531 points · HN #46795908

  4. 04

    Android’s desktop interface leaks (9to5google.com)

    289 points · HN #46790740

  5. 05

    Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers (github.com/ratatui)

    244 points · HN #46798402

  6. 06

    Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance (alecmuffett.com)

    549 points · HN #46802067

  7. 07

    Amazon cuts 16k jobs (reuters.com)

    707 points · HN #46796745

  8. 08

    Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python (dimamik.com)

    272 points · HN #46797594

  9. 09

    Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU (vectorware.com)

    255 points · HN #46741150

  10. 10

    Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model (arcee.ai)

    231 points · HN #46789561

  11. 11

    Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores (yahoo.com)

    315 points · HN #46781444

  12. 12

    Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection (computerhistory.org)

    188 points · HN #46798994

  13. 13

    Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending (github.com/jmuncor)

    218 points · HN #46799898

  14. 14

    There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him (fastcompany.com)

    326 points · HN #46735407

  15. 15

    Show HN: The HN Arcade (andrewgy8.github.io)

    352 points · HN #46793693

  16. 16

    Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning? (newyorker.com)

    184 points · HN #46789205

  17. 17

    Some notes on starting to use Django (jvns.ca)

    257 points · HN #46788384

  18. 18

    Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks (siliceum.com)

    158 points · HN #46797868

  19. 19

    Extremophile molds are invading art museums (scientificamerican.com)

    153 points · HN #46731513

  20. 20

    Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle (geometrycode.com)

    174 points · HN #46735152

  21. 21

    Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index (github.com/microsoft)

    143 points · HN #46802210

  22. 22

    In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games? (thinkygames.com)

    89 points · HN #46732514

  23. 23

    LM Studio 0.4 (lmstudio.ai)

    239 points · HN #46799477

  24. 24

    SVG Path Editor (yqnn.github.io)

    254 points · HN #46726269

  25. 25

    Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp (fb.com)

    266 points · HN #46791742

  26. 26

    Make.ts (matklad.github.io)

    249 points · HN #46792194

  27. 27

    I overengineered a spinning top [video] (youtube.com)

    160 points · HN #46728070

  28. 28

    How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital (economist.com)

    226 points · HN #46789180

  29. 29

    UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M (mahadk.com)

    402 points · HN #46803119

  30. 30

    Pandas 3.0 (pydata.org)

    271 points · HN #46734641