Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-23

  1. We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports curl.se - 582 comments 893 points
  2. Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC cannoneyed.com - 168 comments 805 points
  3. GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers gptzero.me - 425 comments 790 points
  4. In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels e360.yale.edu - 552 comments 546 points
  5. Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation qwen.ai - 174 comments 541 points
  6. I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? hugodaniel.com - 350 comments 454 points
  7. Bugs Apple Loves www.bugsappleloves.com - 141 comments 398 points
  8. Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over “heroes” shreevatsa.net - 390 comments 396 points
  9. Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? eieio.games - 237 comments 390 points
  10. It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed github.com - 72 comments 283 points
  11. Design Thinking Books - 2024 www.designorate.com - 126 comments 276 points
  12. Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B www.reuters.com - 190 comments 268 points
  13. 30 Years of ReactOS reactos.org - 147 comments 246 points
  14. Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers lambdaland.org - 59 comments 231 points
  15. Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU old.reddit.com - 189 comments 170 points
  16. CSS Optical Illusions alvaromontoro.com - 14 comments 162 points
  17. ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss pdfa.org - 100 comments 151 points
  18. Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users openai.com - 42 comments 129 points
  19. Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance www.science.org - 56 comments 121 points
  20. White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest www.theguardian.com - 16 comments 116 points
  21. Satya Nadella: “We need to find something useful for AI” www.pcgamer.com - 148 comments 115 points
  22. ‘Askers’ vs. ‘Guessers’ - 2010 www.theatlantic.com - 74 comments 113 points
  23. Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - 2020 www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl - 56 comments 99 points
  24. The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans www.bbc.com - 49 comments 99 points
  25. Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios www.bbc.co.uk - 98 comments 95 points
  26. Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit www.thenation.com - 64 comments 93 points
  27. In Praise of APL - 1977 www.jsoftware.com - 53 comments 93 points
  28. ‘Active’ sitting is better for brain health: review of studies www.sciencealert.com - 34 comments 92 points
  29. Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs Appointed Lieutenant Colonels in US Army - 2025 twitter.com - 51 comments 89 points
  30. Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift www.swift.org - 3 comments 85 points