HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-31

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (dywa.ng)

    893 points · HN #46838597

  2. 02

    Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones (simedw.com)

    469 points · HN #46832074

  3. 03

    Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)

    745 points · HN #46838417

  4. 04

    Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native (theregister.com)

    806 points · HN #46835336

  5. 05

    Outsourcing thinking (erikjohannes.no)

    270 points · HN #46840865

  6. 06

    CPython Internals Explained (github.com/zpoint)

    220 points · HN #46780086

  7. 07

    My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition) (jaisenmathai.com)

    309 points · HN #46794971

  8. 08

    Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine (crl.io)

    190 points · HN #46839215

  9. 09

    Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device (arstechnica.com)

    242 points · HN #46837346

  10. 10

    We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency (globalping.io)

    228 points · HN #46834953

  11. 11

    Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) (nmn.sh)

    328 points · HN #46841374

  12. 12

    Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images (github.com/rtvkiz)

    120 points · HN #46840178

  13. 13

    The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice (wsj.com)

    373 points · HN #46831702

  14. 14

    Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] (help.apple.com)

    224 points · HN #46837814

  15. 15

    Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010) (mvdirona.com)

    83 points · HN #46831592

  16. 16

    The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf] (usenix.org)

    127 points · HN #46840219

  17. 17

    Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024) (archaeologyworlds.com)

    154 points · HN #46834313

  18. 18

    Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User (nemin.hu)

    199 points · HN #46835612

  19. 19

    Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications (arxiv.org)

    88 points · HN #46840252

  20. 20

    Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up (openjdk.org)

    179 points · HN #46835454

  21. 21

    NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston (arstechnica.com)

    170 points · HN #46792242

  22. 22

    Show HN: Phage Explorer (phage-explorer.org)

    127 points · HN #46833754

  23. 23

    Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign (theregister.com)

    220 points · HN #46840676

  24. 24

    Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

    235 points · HN #46826277

  25. 25

    Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023) (lareviewofbooks.org)

    124 points · HN #46833254

  26. 26

    A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived (thetimes.com)

    103 points · HN #46791434

  27. 27

    A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev (somehowmanage.com)

    155 points · HN #46809846

  28. 28

    Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland (github.com/noctalia-dev)

    97 points · HN #46840179

  29. 29

    An anecdote about backward compatibility (plover.com)

    82 points · HN #46768260

  30. 30

    How to explain Generative AI in the classroom (dalelane.co.uk)

    78 points · HN #46810576