Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-16

  1. Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage www.culpium.com - 380 comments 635 points
  2. Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China’s wind and solar buildout e360.yale.edu - 464 comments 632 points
  3. The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis www.404media.co - 768 comments 595 points
  4. Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? news.ycombinator.com - 812 comments 509 points
  5. 25 Years of Wikipedia wikipedia25.org - 388 comments 479 points
  6. ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid werd.io - 327 comments 378 points
  7. To those who fired or didn’t hire tech writers because of AI passo.uno - 242 comments 328 points
  8. Raspberry Pi’s New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs www.jeffgeerling.com - 197 comments 241 points
  9. Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark briarproject.org - 99 comments 239 points
  10. Have Taken Up Farming dylan.gr - 132 comments 205 points
  11. Why senior engineers let bad projects fail lalitm.com - 127 comments 186 points
  12. Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected shellbox.dev - 98 comments 159 points
  13. CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem svelte.dev - 27 comments 150 points
  14. UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction electrek.co - 85 comments 148 points
  15. OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available github.com - 42 comments 146 points
  16. Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever www.smithsonianmag.com - 38 comments 144 points
  17. Design and Implementation of Sprites fly.io - 99 comments 142 points
  18. The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998’s Thief: The Dark Project - 2019 nothings.org - 54 comments 139 points
  19. OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor www.undeadly.org - 7 comments 139 points
  20. JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3 github.com - 71 comments 136 points
  21. Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython - Thumby micro console github.com - 22 comments 125 points
  22. Data is the only moat frontierai.substack.com - 26 comments 118 points
  23. The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn’t add up investinglive.com - 147 comments 115 points
  24. French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition torrentfreak.com - 90 comments 115 points
  25. GitHub Incident www.githubstatus.com - 86 comments 114 points
  26. Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console www.wiz.io - 24 comments 113 points
  27. Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland www.fmn.dk - 72 comments 103 points
  28. Denmark’s struggle to break up with Silicon Valley www.politico.eu - 155 comments 94 points
  29. European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island’s security www.npr.org - 88 comments 92 points
  30. European military personnel arrive in Greenland as Trump says US needs island www.bbc.com - 114 comments 84 points