Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-02

  1. Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking netbird.io - 251 comments 668 points
  2. Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com - 316 comments 648 points
  3. Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors notepad-plus-plus.org - 301 comments 552 points
  4. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle dmitrybrant.com - 122 comments 415 points
  5. What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent mariozechner.at - 161 comments 372 points
  6. Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation github.com - 88 comments 308 points
  7. Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk - 54 comments 300 points
  8. My thousand dollar iPhone can’t do math journal.rafaelcosta.me - 114 comments 237 points
  9. Apple I Advertisement - 1976 apple1.chez.com - 125 comments 216 points
  10. FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap gyptazy.com - 115 comments 209 points
  11. TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe taoofmac.com - 127 comments 204 points
  12. The Book of PF, 4th edition nostarch.com - 37 comments 204 points
  13. 1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys depthfirst.com - 71 comments 158 points
  14. Margin Call asymco.com - 82 comments 145 points
  15. How to Scale a System from 0 to 10M+ Users blog.algomaster.io - 74 comments 132 points
  16. English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings yaledailynews.com - 174 comments 123 points
  17. Two kinds of AI users are emerging martinalderson.com - 109 comments 121 points
  18. Amiga Unix - Amix www.amigaunix.com - 50 comments 117 points
  19. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org - 47 comments 102 points
  20. ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face arstechnica.com - 63 comments 100 points
  21. Ian’s Shoelace Site www.fieggen.com - 14 comments 97 points
  22. MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger www.sciencedaily.com - 37 comments 93 points
  23. Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel ahmedeldin.substack.com - 2 comments 84 points
  24. Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival phys.org - 23 comments 80 points
  25. A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words forkingmad.blog - 86 comments 76 points
  26. Iran summons families of exiled journalists to halt their activities www.iranintl.com - 78 comments 75 points
  27. Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work research.google - 25 comments 72 points
  28. Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code github.com - 48 comments 68 points
  29. ‘Tesla is - still trying to deceive investors into thinking it has SF robotaxis’ electrek.co - 6 comments 64 points
  30. Time Machine-style Backups with rsync - 2018 samuelhewitt.com - 23 comments 61 points