top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-23

Bugs Apple Loves

https://www.bugsappleloves.com

7 months ago

1117 upvotes – 537 comments

Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/

7 months ago

1040 upvotes – 660 comments

European Alternatives

https://european-alternatives.eu

7 months ago

809 upvotes – 511 comments

Heathrow scraps liquid container limit

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evvx89559o

7 months ago

631 upvotes – 816 comments

Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/

7 months ago

556 upvotes – 424 comments

Ghostty's AI Policy

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

7 months ago

★ 51.6k Zig MIT
501 upvotes – 273 comments

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBCOEiqiPs

7 months ago

482 upvotes – 105 comments

Proof of Corn

https://proofofcorn.com/

7 months ago

474 upvotes – 307 comments

Unrolling the Codex Agent Loop

https://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop/

7 months ago

456 upvotes – 208 comments

Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

https://maggieappleton.com/gastown

7 months ago

401 upvotes – 430 comments

Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/

7 months ago

355 upvotes – 119 comments

Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/tesla-wants-recurring-revenue-discontinues-autopilot-in-favor-of-fsd/

7 months ago

345 upvotes – 366 comments

There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

https://www.fastcompany.com/91477114/steve-wozniak-woz-apple-the-tech-interactive-humanitarian-award

7 months ago

326 upvotes – 156 comments

New YC homepage

https://www.ycombinator.com/

7 months ago

297 upvotes – 157 comments

Radicle: The Sovereign Forge

https://radicle.xyz

7 months ago

286 upvotes – 143 comments

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere

7 months ago

★ 2.1k Go Apache-2.0
278 upvotes – 89 comments

Pandas 3.0

https://pandas.pydata.org/community/blog/pandas-3.0.html

7 months ago

269 upvotes – 118 comments

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer

https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/

7 months ago

263 upvotes – 112 comments

What Has Docker Become?

https://tuananh.net/2026/01/20/what-has-docker-become/

7 months ago

262 upvotes – 286 comments

Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731068

7 months ago

259 upvotes – 68 comments
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