Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-16
- Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage www.culpium.com - 380 comments 635 points
- Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China’s wind and solar buildout e360.yale.edu - 464 comments 632 points
- The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis www.404media.co - 768 comments 595 points
- Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? news.ycombinator.com - 812 comments 509 points
- 25 Years of Wikipedia wikipedia25.org - 388 comments 479 points
- ‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid werd.io - 327 comments 378 points
- To those who fired or didn’t hire tech writers because of AI passo.uno - 242 comments 328 points
- Raspberry Pi’s New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs www.jeffgeerling.com - 197 comments 241 points
- Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark briarproject.org - 99 comments 239 points
- Have Taken Up Farming dylan.gr - 132 comments 205 points
- Why senior engineers let bad projects fail lalitm.com - 127 comments 186 points
- Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected shellbox.dev - 98 comments 159 points
- CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem svelte.dev - 27 comments 150 points
- UK offshore wind prices come in 40% cheaper than gas in record auction electrek.co - 85 comments 148 points
- OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available github.com - 42 comments 146 points
- Found: Medieval Cargo Ship – Largest Vessel of Its Kind Ever www.smithsonianmag.com - 38 comments 144 points
- Design and Implementation of Sprites fly.io - 99 comments 142 points
- The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998’s Thief: The Dark Project - 2019 nothings.org - 54 comments 139 points
- OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor www.undeadly.org - 7 comments 139 points
- JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3 github.com - 71 comments 136 points
- Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython - Thumby micro console github.com - 22 comments 125 points
- Data is the only moat frontierai.substack.com - 26 comments 118 points
- The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn’t add up investinglive.com - 147 comments 115 points
- French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition torrentfreak.com - 90 comments 115 points
- GitHub Incident www.githubstatus.com - 86 comments 114 points
- Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console www.wiz.io - 24 comments 113 points
- Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland www.fmn.dk - 72 comments 103 points
- Denmark’s struggle to break up with Silicon Valley www.politico.eu - 155 comments 94 points
- European troops arrive in Greenland to boost the Arctic island’s security www.npr.org - 88 comments 92 points
- European military personnel arrive in Greenland as Trump says US needs island www.bbc.com - 114 comments 84 points
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