HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-02

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    The Codex App (openai.com)

    805 points · HN #46859054

  2. 02

    xAI joins SpaceX (spacex.com)

    899 points · HN #46862170

  3. 03

    Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years (millert.dev)

    611 points · HN #46858577

  4. 04

    4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) (jeffgeerling.com)

    382 points · HN #46820142

  5. 05

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

    317 points · HN #46857488

  6. 06

    Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works (neutree.ai)

    271 points · HN #46855447

  7. 07

    My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs (rafaelcosta.me)

    429 points · HN #46849258

  8. 08

    Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub (ankiweb.net)

    573 points · HN #46861313

  9. 09

    Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction (arstechnica.com)

    497 points · HN #46863112

  10. 10

    Hacking Moltbook (wiz.io)

    397 points · HN #46857615

  11. 11

    Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed (xikipedia.org)

    441 points · HN #46850803

  12. 12

    Ian's Shoelace Site (fieggen.com)

    404 points · HN #46848231

  13. 13

    Zig Libc (ziglang.org)

    358 points · HN #46858622

  14. 14

    Treasures found on HS2 route (bbc.com)

    119 points · HN #46849926

  15. 15

    Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed (sintef.no)

    268 points · HN #46848060

  16. 16

    Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support (linuxfromscratch.org)

    225 points · HN #46858829

  17. 17

    Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors (notepad-plus-plus.org)

    917 points · HN #46851548

  18. 18

    Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong (lapcatsoftware.com)

    199 points · HN #46852096

  19. 19

    Two kinds of AI users are emerging (martinalderson.com)

    355 points · HN #46850588

  20. 20

    Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++ (solidean.com)

    115 points · HN #46849154

  21. 21

    Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985) (dtic.mil)

    138 points · HN #46851192

  22. 22

    Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft (theverge.com)

    409 points · HN #46854999

  23. 23

    Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route (phys.org)

    171 points · HN #46855803

  24. 24

    Founding is a snowball (bawolf.com)

    113 points · HN #46814581

  25. 25

    My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml (recoil.org)

    159 points · HN #46854534

  26. 26

    Contracts in Nix (sraka.xyz)

    105 points · HN #46844466

  27. 27

    Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce (wired.com)

    285 points · HN #46852660

  28. 28

    On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf] (weber.edu)

    110 points · HN #46858802

  29. 29

    Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018) (samuelhewitt.com)

    114 points · HN #46850709

  30. 30

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

    142 points · HN #46857487