Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-01
- Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam’s clouds and go EU-native www.theregister.com - 622 comments 729 points
- Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media yle.fi - 419 comments 563 points
- Mobile carriers can get your GPS location an.dywa.ng - 351 comments 562 points
- Swift is a more convenient Rust - 2023 nmn.sh - 245 comments 263 points
- We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency blog.globalping.io - 55 comments 211 points
- Automatic Programming antirez.com - 205 comments 209 points
- YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers piunikaweb.com - 190 comments 187 points
- US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren’t private www.bloomberg.com - 331 comments 173 points
- US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages www.theguardian.com - 1 comments 171 points
- Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User nemin.hu - 69 comments 166 points
- Apple Platform Security - Jan 2026 - pdf help.apple.com - 114 comments 157 points
- Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up mail.openjdk.org - 84 comments 151 points
- CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider physicsworld.com - 105 comments 141 points
- Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid - 2024 archaeologyworlds.com - 47 comments 140 points
- Nvidia’s 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device arstechnica.com - 106 comments 128 points
- Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine crl.io - 30 comments 121 points
- Outsourcing thinking erikjohannes.no - 100 comments 120 points
- Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 wikiedu.org - 51 comments 120 points
- Film students who can no longer sit through films www.theatlantic.com - 203 comments 116 points
- In praise of –dry-run henrikwarne.com - 69 comments 116 points
- Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS genode.org - 18 comments 112 points
- Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes www.theguardian.com - 78 comments 106 points
- Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies news.ycombinator.com - 68 comments 106 points
- The Saddest Moment - 2013 - pdf www.usenix.org - 20 comments 106 points
- Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign www.theregister.com - 80 comments 97 points
- List animals until failure rose.systems - 58 comments 95 points
- Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images github.com - 25 comments 83 points
- Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. github.com - 35 comments 80 points
- Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy - 2011 gwern.net - 19 comments 80 points
- Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw - Clawd Bot/Molt Bot users? What’s your experience? news.ycombinator.com - 121 comments 79 points
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