Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-05

  1. Voxtral Transcribe 2 mistral.ai - 209 comments 839 points
  2. FBI couldn’t get into WaPo reporter’s iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled www.404media.co - 491 comments 563 points
  3. Claude is a space to think www.anthropic.com - 226 comments 421 points
  4. AI is killing B2B SaaS nmn.gl - 473 comments 309 points
  5. Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 arstechnica.com - 131 comments 281 points
  6. Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering github.com - 65 comments 277 points
  7. A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs pdfa.org - 151 comments 275 points
  8. OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been www.jakequist.com - 235 comments 273 points
  9. The Great Unwind occupywallst.com - 192 comments 239 points
  10. How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post www.newyorker.com - 241 comments 220 points
  11. French streamer unbanked by Qonto after criticizing Palantir and Peter Thiel twitter.com - 67 comments 205 points
  12. Claude Code for Infrastructure www.fluid.sh - 145 comments 194 points
  13. Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot is running into problems www.wsj.com - 212 comments 186 points
  14. Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation arxiv.org - 87 comments 158 points
  15. Building a 24-bit arcade CRT display adapter from scratch www.scd31.com - 42 comments 149 points
  16. Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell www.cia.gov - 92 comments 122 points
  17. ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use www.biometricupdate.com - 42 comments 116 points
  18. Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections www.newsweek.com - 72 comments 115 points
  19. RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code github.com - 41 comments 108 points
  20. Child prodigies rarely become elite performers www.economist.com - 76 comments 100 points
  21. Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees longevity.stanford.edu - 36 comments 98 points
  22. In Tehran www.lrb.co.uk - 140 comments 97 points
  23. Tell HN: Another round of Zendesk email spam news.ycombinator.com - 41 comments 91 points
  24. When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown rachelbythebay.com - 31 comments 91 points
  25. Technocracy 2.0 brooklynrail.org - 48 comments 87 points
  26. Fastmail Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation www.perl.com - 16 comments 81 points
  27. “time to GPT-2”, down to 2.91 hours twitter.com - 13 comments 77 points
  28. As Rocks May Think evjang.com - 69 comments 76 points
  29. The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today xakpc.dev - 37 comments 75 points
  30. Postgres Postmaster does not scale www.recall.ai - 24 comments 74 points