Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-26

  1. ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data www.eff.org - 670 comments 1093 points
  2. A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu - 342 comments 665 points
  3. Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet netzbremse.de - 288 comments 586 points
  4. A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch github.com - 178 comments 546 points
  5. First, make me care gwern.net - 148 comments 515 points
  6. Yes, It’s Fascism www.theatlantic.com - 203 comments 416 points
  7. Doom has been ported to an earbud doombuds.com - 116 comments 389 points
  8. Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki - 231 comments 387 points
  9. Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes dlt.github.io - 15 comments 305 points
  10. Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials time.com - 160 comments 296 points
  11. White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says “the memes will continue” arstechnica.com - 98 comments 296 points
  12. The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world - 2019 www.bbc.com - 174 comments 263 points
  13. FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations www.aerotime.aero - 206 comments 258 points
  14. Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com - 30 comments 227 points
  15. Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint github.com - 19 comments 201 points
  16. Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant github.com - 128 comments 194 points
  17. Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems www.diljitpr.net - 60 comments 194 points
  18. Over 36,500 killed in Iran’s deadliest massacre, documents reveal www.iranintl.com - 129 comments 190 points
  19. Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds www.bbc.com - 150 comments 180 points
  20. Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry’s desk? - 2012 www.therpf.com - 64 comments 153 points
  21. Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts www.lr.org - 98 comments 143 points
  22. German economists push for gold repatriation from U.S. vaults seekingalpha.com - 2 comments 141 points
  23. Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of ‘you’ www.sciencealert.com - 26 comments 138 points
  24. Canada www.jenn.site - 106 comments 127 points
  25. Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux www.phoronix.com - 45 comments 127 points
  26. ICE tells legal observer, ‘We have a database, now you’re a domestic terrorist’ reason.com - 19 comments 126 points
  27. I was right about ATProto key management notes.nora.codes - 86 comments 124 points
  28. UN declares that the world has entered an era of ‘global water bankruptcy’ www.smithsonianmag.com - 117 comments 122 points
  29. Iran’s internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only restofworld.org - 48 comments 122 points
  30. Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications github.com - 40 comments 119 points