HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-01

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking (netbird.io)

    741 points · HN #46844870

  2. 02

    Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)

    859 points · HN #46849567

  3. 03

    Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games (adventuregamestudio.co.uk)

    404 points · HN #46846252

  4. 04

    MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience (cnx-software.com)

    255 points · HN #46812795

  5. 05

    Apple I Advertisement (1976) (chez.com)

    270 points · HN #46847780

  6. 06

    In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)

    309 points · HN #46840612

  7. 07

    Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation (github.com/gavrielc)

    533 points · HN #46850205

  8. 08

    FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap (gyptazy.com)

    253 points · HN #46845103

  9. 09

    Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)

    245 points · HN #46840924

  10. 10

    Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89 (scientificamerican.com)

    313 points · HN #46793313

  11. 11

    List animals until failure (rose.systems)

    363 points · HN #46842603

  12. 12

    Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)

    844 points · HN #46848415

  13. 13

    Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out (moltbook.com)

    287 points · HN #46802254

  14. 14

    Amiga Unix (Amix) (amigaunix.com)

    140 points · HN #46845244

  15. 15

    Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems (cedardb.com)

    153 points · HN #46826011

  16. 16

    Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt (kohlschuetter.github.io)

    275 points · HN #46786575

  17. 17

    Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)

    186 points · HN #46842178

  18. 18

    What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)

    421 points · HN #46844822

  19. 19

    The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)

    227 points · HN #46844350

  20. 20

    Opentrees.org (2024) (opentrees.org)

    148 points · HN #46787211

  21. 21

    VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code (visualjj.com)

    181 points · HN #46799435

  22. 22

    The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video] (youtube.com)

    199 points · HN #46782872

  23. 23

    Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. (github.com/zupat)

    143 points · HN #46840698

  24. 24

    Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL (github.com/datadog)

    134 points · HN #46804009

  25. 25

    Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work (research.google)

    106 points · HN #46847958

  26. 26

    A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words (forkingmad.blog)

    133 points · HN #46847924

  27. 27

    Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples (lab174.com)

    119 points · HN #46792347

  28. 28

    EV-1 for Lease (1996) (loe.org)

    53 points · HN #46817779

  29. 29

    Wikipedia: Sandbox (wikipedia.org)

    93 points · HN #46829965

  30. 30

    A web server on a single floppy disk (ddns.net)

    118 points · HN #46804754