Hacker News Best Stories

Updated: 2026-02-04 12:01:55 CST

#	Title	Score
1	xAI joins SpaceX	▲879
2	France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US	▲823
3	The Codex App	▲786
4	What's up with all those equals signs anyway?	▲615
5	The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal	▲601
6	Qwen3-Coder-Next	▲594
7	Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years	▲581
8	Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub	▲547
9	Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction	▲487
10	Agent Skills	▲395
11	Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft	▲394
12	Hacking Moltbook	▲386
13	Deno Sandbox	▲353
14	Termux	▲353
15	Zig Libc	▲348
16	Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair	▲325
17	Data centers in space makes no sense	▲324
18	Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)	▲300
19	X offices raided in France	▲285
20	New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers	▲282
21	Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce	▲279
22	Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works	▲269
23	Bunny Database	▲259
24	GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations	▲259
25	Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode	▲257
26	X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok	▲246
27	How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?	▲236
28	Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition	▲234
29	Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support	▲217
30	Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation	▲213
31	Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload	▲206
32	Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features	▲204
33	Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown	▲203
34	Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust	▲203
35	221 Cannon is Not For Sale	▲200
36	Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong	▲198
37	EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair	▲188
38	Why software stocks are getting pummelled	▲175
39	Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)	▲172
40	ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face	▲170
41	LICENSE: may be licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant	▲169
42	Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem	▲167
43	Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route	▲165
44	Julia	▲164
45	AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines	▲161
46	EU launches government satcom program in sovereignty push	▲161
47	Kernighan on Programming	▲160
48	Parking lots as economic drains	▲159
49	My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml	▲153
50	Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled	▲151