Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-19
- Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky “Helicopter” music video radiancefields.com - 176 comments 558 points
- Predicting OpenAI’s ad strategy ossa-ma.github.io - 457 comments 522 points
- Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons icon-sets.iconify.design - 59 comments 521 points
- Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK www.presidentti.fi - 472 comments 462 points
- A Social Filesystem overreacted.io - 152 comments 350 points
- Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster - 2014 adamdrake.com - 226 comments 342 points
- Flux 2 Klein pure C inference github.com - 113 comments 294 points
- Police Invested Millions in Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software Won’t Say How Used www.texasobserver.org - 83 comments 289 points
- The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable www.nobelpeaceprize.org - 217 comments 284 points
- ThinkNext Design thinknextdesign.com - 120 comments 248 points
- Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK www.bundesregierung.de - 82 comments 201 points
- Dead Internet Theory kudmitry.com - 253 comments 200 points
- Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling www.msn.com - 204 comments 190 points
- A free and open-source rootkit for Linux lwn.net - 39 comments 188 points
- Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills www.qu8n.com - 213 comments 182 points
- Consent-O-Matic github.com - 95 comments 181 points
- What is Plan 9? fqa.9front.org - 89 comments 168 points
- Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro gamesbymason.com - 165 comments 154 points
- Sins of the Children asteriskmag.com - 65 comments 134 points
- Starting from scratch: Training a 30M Topological Transformer www.tuned.org.uk - 43 comments 126 points
- Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup cua.ai - 31 comments 112 points
- EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal www.dw.com - 157 comments 110 points
- Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis www.bbc.co.uk - 93 comments 105 points
- Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents github.com - 36 comments 101 points
- Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss getdock.io - 79 comments 100 points
- AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage www.theguardian.com - 81 comments 89 points
- Pentagon readies 1,500 troops to possibly deploy to Minnesota, US media say www.reuters.com - 43 comments 84 points
- Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026 www.cnn.com - 45 comments 76 points
- Breaking the Zimmermann Telegram - 2018 medium.com - 5 comments 75 points
- Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com - 51 comments 71 points
January 19, 2026 ∙