Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-11

  1. Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 eupolicy.social - 483 comments 706 points
  2. I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great www.theverge.com - 529 comments 620 points
  3. Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece - 2023 nightingaledvs.com - 168 comments 414 points
  4. Finding and fixing Ghostty’s largest memory leak mitchellh.com - 70 comments 360 points
  5. Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project www.openchaos.dev - 72 comments 351 points
  6. Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 www.eteknix.com - 331 comments 299 points
  7. New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis libroot.org - 124 comments 296 points
  8. UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence www.theregister.com - 57 comments 291 points
  9. Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books trails.pieterma.es - 84 comments 288 points
  10. Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages for Text - 2017 karl-voit.at - 181 comments 266 points
  11. Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study www.brown.edu - 166 comments 249 points
  12. AI is a business model stress test dri.es - 230 comments 221 points
  13. Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines www.ycombinator.com - 118 comments 163 points
  14. NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew www.livescience.com - 102 comments 114 points
  15. Bob Weir has died www.rollingstone.com - 18 comments 112 points
  16. Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a ‘supply shock’: study www.economist.com - 75 comments 107 points
  17. UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors reclaimthenet.org - 33 comments 107 points
  18. Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History www.diis.dk - 166 comments 103 points
  19. Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering github.com - 33 comments 99 points
  20. Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other llmholdem.com - 46 comments 96 points
  21. Worst of breed software worstofbreed.net - 39 comments 91 points
  22. I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem tiespetersen.substack.com - 37 comments 88 points
  23. Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more news.ycombinator.com - 27 comments 88 points
  24. All my new code will be closed-source from now on twitter.com - 97 comments 85 points
  25. Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats - 2025 scienceclock.com - 10 comments 82 points
  26. My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated alienchow.dev - 47 comments 75 points
  27. Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document www.theguardian.com - 54 comments 72 points
  28. Iran’s internet shutdown is chillingly precise and may last some time www.theguardian.com - 86 comments 71 points
  29. Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals www.fox13seattle.com - 5 comments 65 points
  30. Landlords are using automated services to monitor tenant promotions old.reddit.com - 30 comments 63 points