Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-01-29

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