Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-28
- TikTok users can’t upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues www.cnn.com - 868 comments 1335 points
- FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE www.nbcnews.com - 830 comments 683 points
- Prism openai.com - 315 comments 566 points
- U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office www.science.org - 354 comments 505 points
- Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn’t tech.lgbt - 183 comments 495 points
- Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model www.kimi.com - 221 comments 473 points
- 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found www.nytimes.com - 211 comments 390 points
- I made my own Git tonystr.net - 157 comments 349 points
- Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE www.pride.com - 218 comments 336 points
- Doing the thing is doing the thing www.softwaredesign.ing - 111 comments 327 points
- Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor alexxcons.github.io - 226 comments 297 points
- Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov’t contractor’s son www.web3isgoinggreat.com - 57 comments 288 points
- Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company amutable.com - 353 comments 267 points
- Amazon to shut down Go and Fresh stores www.cnn.com - 4 comments 232 points
- Super Monkey Ball ported to a website monkeyball-online.pages.dev - 62 comments 224 points
- Russia using Interpol’s wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals www.bbc.com - 74 comments 215 points
- Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores finance.yahoo.com - 413 comments 208 points
- The age of Pump and Dump software tautvilas.medium.com - 70 comments 206 points
- Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot github.com - 175 comments 203 points
- Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC emsh.cat - 100 comments 195 points
- India and EU announce landmark trade deal www.bbc.com - 204 comments 184 points
- TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin www.bbc.com - 169 comments 167 points
- SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned haveibeenpwned.com - 86 comments 167 points
- AI2: Open Coding Agents allenai.org - 23 comments 161 points
- AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release aisle.com - 88 comments 143 points
- Time Station Emulator github.com - 39 comments 138 points
- DHS: Critical ICE surveillance footage from abuse case was never recorded www.404media.co - 20 comments 132 points
- Parametric CAD in Rust campedersen.com - 77 comments 124 points
- France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s www.rte.ie - 160 comments 123 points
- The state of Linux music players in 2026 crescentro.se - 134 comments 120 points
January 28, 2026 ∙