Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-29
- Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux www.himthe.dev - 1316 comments 1682 points
- Amazon cuts 16k jobs www.reuters.com - 846 comments 613 points
- Please don’t say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in www.mcsweeneys.net - 244 comments 538 points
- Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance alecmuffett.com - 113 comments 460 points
- ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants www.bmj.com - 252 comments 434 points
- Airfoil - 2024 ciechanow.ski - 51 comments 410 points
- ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions www.asml.com - 334 comments 331 points
- Show HN: The HN Arcade andrewgy8.github.io - 83 comments 316 points
- UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M mahadk.com - 93 comments 311 points
- That’s not how email works danq.me - 155 comments 254 points
- Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp engineering.fb.com - 128 comments 246 points
- Make.ts matklad.github.io - 115 comments 223 points
- Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app www.macrumors.com - 186 comments 216 points
- Tesla ending Models S and X production www.cnbc.com - 318 comments 215 points
- Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python www.dimamik.com - 89 comments 212 points
- Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers github.com - 43 comments 192 points
- We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles - 2002 web.mit.edu - 20 comments 188 points
- Jellyfin LLM/“AI” Development Policy jellyfin.org - 92 comments 182 points
- In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials’ narratives www.reuters.com - 92 comments 163 points
- Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k www.townandcountrymag.com - 112 comments 156 points
- Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art github.com - 21 comments 153 points
- Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending github.com - 66 comments 149 points
- I stopped following the news mertbulan.com - 160 comments 146 points
- Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection computerhistory.org - 25 comments 136 points
- Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++ github.com - 44 comments 131 points
- LM Studio 0.4 lmstudio.ai - 68 comments 122 points
- Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 www.theguardian.com - 6 comments 102 points
- Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks www.siliceum.com - 41 comments 101 points
- Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings www.engadget.com - 27 comments 101 points
- When Every Network is 192.168.1.x netrinos.com - 80 comments 96 points
January 29, 2026 ∙