top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-24

BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whatsapp

7 months ago

Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426

7 months ago

How I Estimate Work as a Staff Software Engineer

https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-i-estimate-work/

7 months ago

MS confirms it will give the FBI your Windows PC data encryption key if asked

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-bitlocker-encryption-keys-give-fbi-legal-order-privacy-nightmare

7 months ago

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

https://twitter.com/NicerInPerson/status/2014989679796347375

7 months ago

Doing Gigabit Ethernet over My British Phone Wires

https://thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing-gigabit-ethernet-over-my-british-phone-wires/

7 months ago

Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands

https://comma.ai

7 months ago

I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

https://micahcantor.com/blog/bluesky-comment-section.html

7 months ago

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology

https://theconversation.com/europe-wants-to-end-its-dangerous-reliance-on-us-internet-technology-274042

7 months ago

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/wiper-malware-targeted-poland-energy-grid-but-failed-to-knock-out-electricity/

7 months ago

Rust's Standard Library on the GPU

https://www.vectorware.com/blog/rust-std-on-gpu/

7 months ago

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

https://the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-drag-race-pi-1-to-pi-5-performance-comparison/

7 months ago

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

https://albedo.com/post/clarity-1-what-worked-and-where-we-go-next

7 months ago

Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

https://github.com/nrrb/tao-te-ching/blob/master/Ursula%20K%20Le%20Guin.md

7 months ago

I Like GitLab

https://www.whileforloop.com/en/blog/2026/01/21/i-like-gitlab/

7 months ago

Ask HN: Gmail Spam Filtering Suddenly Marking Everything as Spam?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744807

7 months ago

We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable

https://eclypsium.com/blog/xray-counterfeit-usb-cable/

7 months ago

Federal Agents Kill Another Person in Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown

https://time.com/7357547/minneapolis-shooting-ice-agent/

7 months ago

Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite

https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html

7 months ago

"People are going to stop and ask you, 'How can I help?' Let them."

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/20/nx-s1-5683170/let-them-the-small-bit-of-advice-that-made-a-big-difference-to-a-grieving-widow

7 months ago

Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-activist-ice-protest-church-video-49faf3efd54e496388651aac1369fb44

7 months ago

ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-asks-companies-about-ad-tech-and-big-data-tools/

7 months ago

December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more

https://servo.org/blog/2026/01/23/december-in-servo/

7 months ago

Bye Bye Gmail

https://m24tom.com/bye-bye-gmail/show

7 months ago

Memory layout in Zig with formulas

https://raymondtana.github.io/math/programming/2026/01/23/zig-alignment-and-sizing.html

7 months ago

Agent orchestration for the timid

https://substack.com/inbox/post/185649875

7 months ago

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTsNV41DYg

7 months ago

Amazon braces for another major round of layoffs, 14,000 jobs at risk

https://mynorthwest.com/local/amazon-layoffs-14000-jobs-at-risk/4192118

7 months ago

Package Management Is a Wicked Problem

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/23/package-management-is-a-wicked-problem.html

7 months ago

Minneapolis Authorities Respond to Shooting Involving ICE Agents

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice

7 months ago

Caroline Ellison Former Alameda CEO Released from Prison After 440 Days

https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26450

7 months ago

80386 Multiplication and Division

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_multiplication_and_division/

7 months ago

Are we all plagiarists now?

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/01/22/are-we-all-plagiarists-now

7 months ago

Show HN: Dwm.tmux – a dwm-inspired window manager for tmux

https://github.com/saysjonathan/dwm.tmux

7 months ago

ICE has killed another person in Minneapolis

https://www.theverge.com/news/867245/ice-has-killed-another-person-in-minneapolis

7 months ago

Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/24/repatriate-the-gold-german-economists-advise-withdrawal-from-us-vaults

7 months ago

US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/health/milhoan-vaccines-optional-polio.html

7 months ago

Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public

https://sharedclaude.com/

7 months ago

C++ Modules Are Here to Stay

https://faresbakhit.github.io/e/cpp-modules/

7 months ago

JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool

https://json-render.dev/

7 months ago

An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-illustrated-guide-hippo-castration

7 months ago

3D-Printed Mathematical Lampshades

https://hessammehr.github.io/blog/posts/2025-12-24-maths-to-lampshade.html

7 months ago

AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt

https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/23/ai-can-10x-developers-in-creating-tech-debt/

7 months ago

XHTML Club

https://xhtml.club/

7 months ago

Understanding Rust Closures

https://antoine.vandecreme.net/blog/rust-closures/

7 months ago

FOSS "Just Fork It" Delusion

https://hamishcampbell.com/foss-just-fork-it-delusion/

7 months ago

You can't pay me to prompt

https://dbushell.com/2025/06/18/ai-policy/

7 months ago