Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-10

  1. The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app xdaforums.com - 558 comments 472 points
  2. Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines twitter.com - 666 comments 468 points
  3. Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear lend-me-your-ears.specr.net - 162 comments 450 points
  4. European Commission issues call for evidence on open source lwn.net - 326 comments 419 points
  5. Flock Hardcoded the Password for America’s Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times nexanet.ai - 131 comments 395 points
  6. Mathematics for Computer Science - 2018 - pdf courses.csail.mit.edu - 64 comments 372 points
  7. Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux help.kagi.com - 256 comments 369 points
  8. “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI” mathstodon.xyz - 212 comments 358 points
  9. What happened to WebAssembly emnudge.dev - 306 comments 332 points
  10. London–Calcutta bus service en.wikipedia.org - 166 comments 331 points
  11. Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression www.sciencedaily.com - 261 comments 330 points
  12. JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters beta.dwitter.net - 49 comments 224 points
  13. How Markdown took over the world www.anildash.com - 165 comments 218 points
  14. Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success www.economist.com - 265 comments 206 points
  15. Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok quack.sdan.io - 56 comments 206 points
  16. RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game? scottjg.com - 76 comments 202 points
  17. SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack fredbenenson.com - 123 comments 180 points
  18. Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges www.bbc.com - 152 comments 175 points
  19. MCP is a fad tombedor.dev - 111 comments 139 points
  20. Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator www.donutthejedi.com - 34 comments 117 points
  21. Surveillance Watch – A map that shows connections between surveillance companies www.surveillancewatch.io - 29 comments 109 points
  22. My article on why AI is great - or terrible or how to use it matthewrocklin.com - 145 comments 98 points
  23. Latest SteamOS Beta Now Includes Ntsync Kernel Driver www.phoronix.com - 36 comments 94 points
  24. How to store a chess position in 26 bytes - 2022 ezzeriesa.notion.site - 78 comments 89 points
  25. Oh My Zsh adds bloat rushter.com - 67 comments 89 points
  26. Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com - 91 comments 75 points
  27. U.S. mandates more foreign travelers to pay $15,000 visa bond deposits www.washingtonpost.com - 99 comments 73 points
  28. “They Saw a Protest”: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction - pdf - 2012 www.stanfordlawreview.org - 63 comments 73 points
  29. 73% People Detained by ICE Have No Convictions www.cato.org - 40 comments 69 points
  30. Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com - 9 comments 68 points