Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-04

  1. Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes www.reuters.com - 3972 comments 1652 points
  2. Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time data.stackexchange.com - 468 comments 896 points
  3. The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 refactoringenglish.com - 100 comments 507 points
  4. Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet www.neowin.net - 338 comments 380 points
  5. The C3 Programming Language c3-lang.org - 198 comments 320 points
  6. Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas www.theguardian.com - 11 comments 267 points
  7. The suck is why we’re here nik.art - 94 comments 203 points
  8. Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic twitter.com - 152 comments 173 points
  9. Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible docs.swifdroid.com - 92 comments 159 points
  10. China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron www.ic-pcb.com - 58 comments 150 points
  11. Recursive Language Models arxiv.org - 23 comments 137 points
  12. X-Clacks-Overhead hleb.dev - 40 comments 112 points
  13. Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions tallyai.money - 79 comments 86 points
  14. Pickle 1 AR Glasses - YC W25 May Be Fraudulent twitter.com - 27 comments 86 points
  15. Profiling with Ctrl-C - 2024 yosefk.com - 13 comments 83 points
  16. Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack www.corviont.com - 24 comments 82 points
  17. Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem totalhealthoptimization.com - 73 comments 80 points
  18. Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time xr0.dev - 20 comments 76 points
  19. Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone stetsonblake.com - 70 comments 73 points
  20. Take One Small Step thinkhuman.com - 16 comments 69 points
  21. KDE onboarding is good now rabbitictranslator.com - 31 comments 67 points
  22. As deep-sea mining race ramps up, mission will assess whether ecosystems recover www.science.org - 50 comments 63 points
  23. The Riven Diffs – Seeing Riven - 1997 Differently glthr.com - 8 comments 61 points
  24. Japan joining growing global trend of declining democracy www.asahi.com - 91 comments 59 points
  25. Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models arxiv.org - 11 comments 58 points
  26. MyTorch – Minimalist autograd in 450 lines of Python github.com - 7 comments 57 points
  27. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero karpathy.ai - 2 comments 57 points
  28. Multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital Caracas www.cnn.com - 31 comments 56 points
  29. Bluesky is not the good place www.ms.now - 47 comments 55 points
  30. Corroded: Illegal Rust github.com - 12 comments 55 points