Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-24
- Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops techcrunch.com - 498 comments 759 points
- European Alternatives european-alternatives.eu - 394 comments 654 points
- Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem dbushell.com - 350 comments 493 points
- AI Usage Policy github.com - 254 comments 476 points
- I built a light that reacts to radio waves - video www.youtube.com - 100 comments 451 points
- Proof of Corn proofofcorn.com - 253 comments 343 points
- Gas Town’s agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale maggieappleton.com - 313 comments 297 points
- Booting from a vinyl record - 2020 boginjr.com - 108 comments 296 points
- Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee arstechnica.com - 307 comments 290 points
- Unrolling the Codex agent loop openai.com - 136 comments 277 points
- Radicle: The Sovereign Forge radicle.xyz - 131 comments 269 points
- What has Docker become? tuananh.net - 264 comments 243 points
- Microsoft mishandling example.com tinyapps.org - 81 comments 232 points
- Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go github.com - 80 comments 224 points
- New YC homepage www.ycombinator.com - 109 comments 223 points
- Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance comma.ai - 119 comments 220 points
- KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer www.korg.com - 95 comments 217 points
- Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com - 178 comments 212 points
- Zotero 8 www.zotero.org - 54 comments 208 points
- Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed github.com - 162 comments 179 points
- Replacing Protobuf with Rust pgdog.dev - 123 comments 169 points
- The tech monoculture is finally breaking www.jasonwillems.com - 210 comments 163 points
- Banned C++ features in Chromium chromium.googlesource.com - 110 comments 136 points
- Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 blog.cloudflare.com - 37 comments 135 points
- White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying www.bbc.co.uk - 77 comments 126 points
- TikTok is now collecting more data about its users www.wired.com - 74 comments 118 points
- Ask HN: What’s the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup? news.ycombinator.com - 22 comments 112 points
- White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying www.nytimes.com - 46 comments 109 points
- Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version apnews.com - 45 comments 106 points
- House vote keeps federal “kill switch” vehicle mandate reclaimthenet.org - 136 comments 100 points
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