HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-04

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Voxtral Transcribe 2 (mistral.ai)

    1012 points · HN #46886735

  2. 02

    Data centers in space makes no sense (civai.org)

    1118 points · HN #46876105

  3. 03

    I miss thinking hard (jernesto.com)

    1310 points · HN #46881264

  4. 04

    AI is killing B2B SaaS (nmn.gl)

    517 points · HN #46888441

  5. 05

    Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out (boxc.net)

    386 points · HN #46845845

  6. 06

    A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs (pdfa.org)

    409 points · HN #46886440

  7. 07

    Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch (scd31.com)

    205 points · HN #46888795

  8. 08

    Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery (github.com/puemos)

    577 points · HN #46847690

  9. 09

    Claude Code for Infrastructure (fluid.sh)

    276 points · HN #46889703

  10. 10

    Tractor (incoherency.co.uk)

    211 points · HN #46877278

  11. 11

    Claude is a space to think (anthropic.com)

    493 points · HN #46884883

  12. 12

    A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw (brandon.wang)

    303 points · HN #46872465

  13. 13

    X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok (bbc.com)

    596 points · HN #46868998

  14. 14

    Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering (github.com/bethington)

    298 points · HN #46882389

  15. 15

    Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 (arstechnica.com)

    317 points · HN #46886191

  16. 16

    FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled (404media.co)

    600 points · HN #46886237

  17. 17

    Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation (arxiv.org)

    164 points · HN #46886265

  18. 18

    Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with Microvm.nix (stapelberg.ch)

    109 points · HN #46844410

  19. 19

    The Great Unwind (occupywallst.com)

    324 points · HN #46889008

  20. 20

    Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game (banteg.xyz)

    180 points · HN #46846101

  21. 21

    RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code (github.com/maxbittker)

    124 points · HN #46888142

  22. 22

    High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon (ieee.org)

    123 points · HN #46842288

  23. 23

    The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75 (thedrive.com)

    147 points · HN #46813029

  24. 24

    Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies (lttlabs.com)

    74 points · HN #46792506

  25. 25

    Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy (foxmoss.com)

    89 points · HN #46844157

  26. 26

    Arcan-A12: Weaving a Different Web (divergent-desktop.org)

    73 points · HN #46887326

  27. 27

    Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map (trapiche.cloud)

    93 points · HN #46840558

  28. 28

    Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile (spritely.institute)

    128 points · HN #46832606

  29. 29

    Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps (oldinsurancemaps.net)

    75 points · HN #46788588

  30. 30

    The Mathematics of Tuning Systems (ucr.edu)

    92 points · HN #46834810