Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-25

  1. Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning www.startribune.com - 569 comments 539 points
  2. MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked www.windowscentral.com - 297 comments 499 points
  3. BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp www.birdy.chat - 291 comments 471 points
  4. How I estimate work www.seangoedecke.com - 269 comments 455 points
  5. Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires thehftguy.com - 253 comments 440 points
  6. Claude Code’s new hidden feature: Swarms twitter.com - 244 comments 365 points
  7. Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study keck.usc.edu - 209 comments 253 points
  8. I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog micahcantor.com - 86 comments 243 points
  9. Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology theconversation.com - 187 comments 199 points
  10. Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin github.com - 84 comments 192 points
  11. Poland’s energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware arstechnica.com - 62 comments 187 points
  12. I Like GitLab www.whileforloop.com - 116 comments 184 points
  13. Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown time.com - 2 comments 182 points
  14. Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam? news.ycombinator.com - 104 comments 163 points
  15. Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite www.sqlite.org - 104 comments 157 points
  16. Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission - with imagery and flight data albedo.com - 50 comments 155 points
  17. Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison the-diy-life.com - 77 comments 153 points
  18. December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more servo.org - 12 comments 139 points
  19. nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days github.com - 20 comments 122 points
  20. We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable eclypsium.com - 43 comments 116 points
  21. Bye Bye Gmail m24tom.com - 103 comments 115 points
  22. After two years of vibecoding, I’m back to writing by hand - video www.youtube.com - 124 comments 114 points
  23. Palantir has no place in UK public services www.opendemocracy.net - 23 comments 107 points
  24. 80386 Multiplication and Division nand2mario.github.io - 30 comments 99 points
  25. Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents www.nytimes.com - 22 comments 99 points
  26. Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk mynorthwest.com - 140 comments 98 points
  27. Are we all plagiarists now? www.economist.com - 118 comments 98 points
  28. ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools www.wired.com - 42 comments 94 points
  29. Memory layout in Zig with formulas raymondtana.github.io - 23 comments 91 points
  30. ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis www.theverge.com - 20 comments 90 points