HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-29

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking (marginlab.ai)

    760 points · HN #46810282

  2. 02

    Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds (blog.google)

    675 points · HN #46812933

  3. 03

    Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app (macrumors.com)

    1116 points · HN #46801419

  4. 04

    We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) (web.mit.edu)

    683 points · HN #46805665

  5. 05

    PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible (redgamingtech.com)

    561 points · HN #46814743

  6. 06

    AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals (vercel.com)

    524 points · HN #46809708

  7. 07

    Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images (esa.int)

    708 points · HN #46806773

  8. 08

    Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants (ncase.me)

    954 points · HN #46808251

  9. 09

    Flameshot (github.com/flameshot-org)

    281 points · HN #46815297

  10. 10

    A lot of population numbers are fake (davidoks.blog)

    401 points · HN #46810027

  11. 11

    Tesla ending Models S and X production (cnbc.com)

    566 points · HN #46802867

  12. 12

    Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal (github.com/lukilabs)

    418 points · HN #46804828

  13. 13

    Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT (openai.com)

    300 points · HN #46816539

  14. 14

    Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)

    482 points · HN #46810401

  15. 15

    My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025) (restofworld.org)

    238 points · HN #46814569

  16. 16

    Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer (mecha.so)

    270 points · HN #46758652

  17. 17

    Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)

    235 points · HN #46804854

  18. 18

    US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report (dexerto.com)

    435 points · HN #46812173

  19. 19

    County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security (arstechnica.com)

    442 points · HN #46814614

  20. 20

    Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis (cloudflare.com)

    246 points · HN #46810828

  21. 21

    Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts? (fourplex.net)

    228 points · HN #46811664

  22. 22

    Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models (drugtargetreview.com)

    271 points · HN #46812159

  23. 23

    Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

    169 points · HN #46812608

  24. 24

    How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023) (xoria.org)

    191 points · HN #46810904

  25. 25

    Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in (mcsweeneys.net)

    678 points · HN #46803356

  26. 26

    Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust” (kerkour.com)

    192 points · HN #46810950

  27. 27

    EmulatorJS (github.com/emulatorjs)

    102 points · HN #46729139

  28. 28

    Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua (xmake.io)

    87 points · HN #46753037

  29. 29

    Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info (i686.me)

    123 points · HN #46768845

  30. 30

    Tea Chemistry (1997) (researchgate.net)

    83 points · HN #46736804