top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-01-27

TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-glitch-cec

1 week ago

1493 upvotes – 1003 comments

Kash Patel says FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICE

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kash-patel-says-the-fbi-is-investigating-signal-chats-of-minnesotans-tracking-ice

1 week ago

954 upvotes – 1633 comments

Prism

https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism

1 week ago

781 upvotes – 524 comments

Doing the thing is doing the thing

https://www.softwaredesign.ing/blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing-the-thing

1 week ago

583 upvotes – 187 comments

Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't

https://tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/115967791152135761

1 week ago

579 upvotes – 210 comments

U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office

1 week ago

576 upvotes – 420 comments

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-tools-marathousa/

1 week ago

509 upvotes – 260 comments

Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-5.html

1 week ago

501 upvotes – 239 comments

Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/single/lick-theft

1 week ago

402 upvotes – 84 comments

The Engineer who invented the Mars Rover Suspension in his garage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc

1 week ago

384 upvotes – 56 comments
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