top 50% 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

6 months 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

6 months ago

954 upvotes – 1633 comments

Prism

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

6 months ago

781 upvotes – 524 comments

Doing the thing is doing the thing

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

6 months ago

583 upvotes – 187 comments

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

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

6 months 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

6 months 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/

6 months ago

510 upvotes – 260 comments

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

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

6 months 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

6 months 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

6 months ago

384 upvotes – 56 comments

I made my own Git

https://tonystr.net/blog/git_immitation

6 months ago

379 upvotes – 173 comments

Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

https://www.pride.com/culture/celebrities/tiktok-censoring-megan-stalter-and-finneas

6 months ago

377 upvotes – 234 comments

Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company

https://amutable.com/about

6 months ago

374 upvotes – 736 comments

Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html

6 months ago

366 upvotes – 325 comments

Places to Telnet

https://telnet.org/htm/places.htm

6 months ago

337 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC

https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/

6 months ago

322 upvotes – 153 comments

Software Pump and Dump

http://tautvilas.lt/software-pump-and-dump/

6 months ago

321 upvotes – 155 comments

Amazon Closing Fresh and Go Stores

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-closing-fresh-grocery-convenience-150437789.html

6 months ago

315 upvotes – 547 comments

Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/01/27/tb25/

6 months ago

274 upvotes – 130 comments

Notes on Starting to Use Django

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/27/some-notes-on-starting-to-use-django/

6 months ago

256 upvotes – 142 comments

AI2: Open Coding Agents

https://allenai.org/blog/open-coding-agents

6 months ago

252 upvotes – 43 comments

Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot

https://github.com/moltbot/moltbot/commit/6d16a658e5ebe6ce15856565a47090d5b9d5dfb6

6 months ago

249 upvotes – 227 comments

Time Station Emulator

https://github.com/kangtastic/timestation

6 months ago

241 upvotes – 59 comments

Parametric CAD in Rust

https://campedersen.com/vcad

6 months ago

241 upvotes – 172 comments

Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-to-shut-down-all-amazon-go-and-amazon-fresh-stores-0301dfb7

6 months ago

233 upvotes – 4 comments

The age of Pump and Dump software

https://tautvilas.medium.com/software-pump-and-dump-c8a9a73d313b

6 months ago

232 upvotes – 75 comments

Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20gg729y1yo

6 months ago

220 upvotes – 78 comments

CPython Internals Explained

https://github.com/zpoint/CPython-Internals

6 months ago

219 upvotes – 52 comments

SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/SoundCloud

6 months ago

210 upvotes – 110 comments

India and EU announce landmark trade deal

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrnee01r9jo

6 months ago

207 upvotes – 264 comments

Trump's cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361

6 months ago

201 upvotes – 247 comments

TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24g8v6qr1mo

6 months ago

200 upvotes – 218 comments

The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg | GitHub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqx8NNT4xY

6 months ago

196 upvotes – 155 comments

Sometimes Your Job Is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/sometimes-your-job-is-to-stay-the-hell-out-of-the-way/

6 months ago

158 upvotes – 137 comments

iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/26/iphone-5s-software-update/

6 months ago

157 upvotes – 83 comments

The state of Linux music players in 2026

https://crescentro.se/posts/linux-music-players-2026/

6 months ago

151 upvotes – 155 comments

Opentrees.org (2024)

https://opentrees.org/#pos=1/-37.8/145

6 months ago

148 upvotes – 17 comments

Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All

https://aashvik.com/posts/555-revolution/

6 months ago

144 upvotes – 86 comments

DHS: Critical ICE Surveillance Footage from Abuse Case Was Never Recorded

https://www.404media.co/dhs-says-critical-ice-surveillance-footage-from-abuse-case-was-actually-never-recorded-doesnt-matter/

6 months ago

138 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: LemonSlice – Give your voice agents a face

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46783600

6 months ago

133 upvotes – 131 comments

France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s

https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0127/1555251-france-social-media-ban/

6 months ago

125 upvotes – 165 comments

TikTok disallows DMs with the word "Epstein"

https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/2015911471507530219

6 months ago

121 upvotes – 5 comments

Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary

https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/

6 months ago

120 upvotes – 47 comments

The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants

https://dri.ie/news/new-collection-in-dri-the-national-herbarium-of-ireland-digital-collection-of-irish-plants/

6 months ago

116 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: I Wrapped the Zorks with an LLM

https://infocom.tambo.co/

6 months ago

110 upvotes – 58 comments

Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management-as-ai-superpower

6 months ago

108 upvotes – 90 comments

A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)

https://tailscale.com/blog/aperture-private-alpha

6 months ago

108 upvotes – 39 comments

Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them 'Physically Safe' from ICE

https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-staffers-ice-office-questions-safety/

6 months ago

107 upvotes – 62 comments

"IG is a drug": Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/tiktok-settles-hours-before-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-starts/

6 months ago

106 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites

https://lightwaves.io/en/eu-audit/

6 months ago

106 upvotes – 91 comments

Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778461

6 months ago

102 upvotes – 70 comments

OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing

https://openssl-library.org/news/vulnerabilities/#CVE-2025-15467

6 months ago

102 upvotes – 47 comments

Heathrow Drops the Liquids Rule

https://flymag.com/heathrow-drops-the-liquids-rule-what-changes-at-lhr-and-how-close-the-u-s-really-is/

6 months ago

92 upvotes – 2 comments

We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)

https://consciousdigital.org/why-we-do-not-support-opt-out-forms/

6 months ago

89 upvotes – 43 comments

Quaternion Algebras

https://jvoight.github.io/quat.html

6 months ago

88 upvotes – 36 comments

How many chess games are possible?

https://win-vector.com/2026/01/27/how-many-chess-games-are-possible/

6 months ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments

Claude Code is your customer

https://calebjohn.xyz/blog/b2cc/

6 months ago

84 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG

https://playground.shaped.ai

6 months ago

80 upvotes – 23 comments

Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray

https://github.com/kristianaryanto/Quack-Cluster

6 months ago

80 upvotes – 15 comments

Ultraprocessed foods make up to 70% of the US food supply

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/health/ultraprocessed-hyperpalatable-foods-wellness

6 months ago

75 upvotes – 51 comments

LLM-as-a-Courtroom

https://falconer.com/notes/llm-as-a-courtroom/

6 months ago

74 upvotes – 30 comments

Old Insurance Maps – Georeferencing Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps on Modern Maps

https://oldinsurancemaps.net/

6 months ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments
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