HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-06

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III (openciv3.org)

    996 points · HN #46918612

  2. 02

    The Waymo World Model (waymo.com)

    1160 points · HN #46914785

  3. 03

    I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams (kirkville.com)

    1178 points · HN #46911901

  4. 04

    Hackers (1995) Animated Experience (hackers-1995.vercel.app)

    612 points · HN #46912800

  5. 05

    Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox (github.com/valdanylchuk)

    327 points · HN #46918429

  6. 06

    Learning from context is harder than we thought (tencent.com)

    245 points · HN #46870514

  7. 07

    Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info (sheldonbrown.com)

    465 points · HN #46914159

  8. 08

    Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS (github.com/microsoft)

    390 points · HN #46913793

  9. 09

    An Update on Heroku (heroku.com)

    525 points · HN #46913903

  10. 10

    Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments (neosmart.net)

    544 points · HN #46890335

  11. 11

    Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer? (eljojo.github.io)

    402 points · HN #46916609

  12. 12

    Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use (vecti.com)

    386 points · HN #46917033

  13. 13

    Understanding Neural Network, Visually (visualrambling.space)

    348 points · HN #46871654

  14. 14

    How to effectively write quality code with AI (heidenstedt.org)

    358 points · HN #46916586

  15. 15

    A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content (niemanlab.org)

    583 points · HN #46910963

  16. 16

    TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe (nytimes.com)

    688 points · HN #46911869

  17. 17

    The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein (scottaaronson.blog)

    389 points · HN #46903929

  18. 18

    Animated Knots (animatedknots.com)

    345 points · HN #46855697

  19. 19

    The RCE that AMD won't fix (mrbruh.com)

    373 points · HN #46906947

  20. 20

    Things Unix can do atomically (2010) (rcrowley.org)

    257 points · HN #46909468

  21. 21

    I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing (infisical.com)

    194 points · HN #46915102

  22. 22

    Systems Thinking (theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)

    279 points · HN #46909439

  23. 23

    Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents (smooth.sh)

    109 points · HN #46901233

  24. 24

    Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents (github.com/stablyai)

    99 points · HN #46905745

  25. 25

    Stay Away from My Trash (tldraw.dev)

    192 points · HN #46867446

  26. 26

    GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams (iankduncan.com)

    404 points · HN #46908491

  27. 27

    Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM (github.com/phreda4)

    92 points · HN #46918824

  28. 28

    Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust (github.com/artifact-keeper)

    166 points · HN #46909037

  29. 29

    It's 2026, Just Use Postgres (tigerdata.com)

    532 points · HN #46905555

  30. 30

    Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy (caltech.edu)

    154 points · HN #46911170