Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-19

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