Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-24

  1. Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops techcrunch.com - 498 comments 759 points
  2. European Alternatives european-alternatives.eu - 394 comments 654 points
  3. Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem dbushell.com - 350 comments 493 points
  4. AI Usage Policy github.com - 254 comments 476 points
  5. I built a light that reacts to radio waves - video www.youtube.com - 100 comments 451 points
  6. Proof of Corn proofofcorn.com - 253 comments 343 points
  7. Gas Town’s agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale maggieappleton.com - 313 comments 297 points
  8. Booting from a vinyl record - 2020 boginjr.com - 108 comments 296 points
  9. Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee arstechnica.com - 307 comments 290 points
  10. Unrolling the Codex agent loop openai.com - 136 comments 277 points
  11. Radicle: The Sovereign Forge radicle.xyz - 131 comments 269 points
  12. What has Docker become? tuananh.net - 264 comments 243 points
  13. Microsoft mishandling example.com tinyapps.org - 81 comments 232 points
  14. Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go github.com - 80 comments 224 points
  15. New YC homepage www.ycombinator.com - 109 comments 223 points
  16. Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance comma.ai - 119 comments 220 points
  17. KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer www.korg.com - 95 comments 217 points
  18. Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com - 178 comments 212 points
  19. Zotero 8 www.zotero.org - 54 comments 208 points
  20. Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed github.com - 162 comments 179 points
  21. Replacing Protobuf with Rust pgdog.dev - 123 comments 169 points
  22. The tech monoculture is finally breaking www.jasonwillems.com - 210 comments 163 points
  23. Banned C++ features in Chromium chromium.googlesource.com - 110 comments 136 points
  24. Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 blog.cloudflare.com - 37 comments 135 points
  25. White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying www.bbc.co.uk - 77 comments 126 points
  26. TikTok is now collecting more data about its users www.wired.com - 74 comments 118 points
  27. Ask HN: What’s the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup? news.ycombinator.com - 22 comments 112 points
  28. White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying www.nytimes.com - 46 comments 109 points
  29. Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version apnews.com - 45 comments 106 points
  30. House vote keeps federal “kill switch” vehicle mandate reclaimthenet.org - 136 comments 100 points