top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-28

Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

https://www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-to-linux

6 months ago

Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut from All Patreon Creators in iOS App

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/28/patreon-apple-tax/

6 months ago

Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/amazon-cuts-16000-jobs-globally-broader-restructuring-2026-01-28/

6 months ago

Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/please-dont-say-mean-things-about-the-ai-that-i-just-invested-a-billion-dollars-in

6 months ago

Tesla ending Models S and X production

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html

6 months ago

Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance

https://alecmuffett.com/article/143548

6 months ago

Airfoil

https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/

6 months ago

ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants

https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s168

6 months ago

The UK paid £4.1M for a bookmarks site

https://mahadk.com/posts/ai-skills-hub

6 months ago

Show HN: The HN Arcade

https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/

6 months ago

ASML firing 1700 people, mostly managers

https://www.ed.nl/binnenland/asml-wil-veel-managementbanen-schrappen-rekent-op-1700-ontslagen~a04807f1/

6 months ago

That's Not How Email Works, HSBC

https://danq.me/2026/01/28/hsbc-dont-understand-email/

6 months ago

Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smallpox-eradication-champion-william-foege-dies-at-89/

6 months ago

My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition)

https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-photo-management-system-immich-edition/

6 months ago

Android's full desktop interface leaks: New status bar, Chrome Extensions

https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/

6 months ago

Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

https://www.moltbook.com/

6 months ago

Super Monkey Ball ported to a website

https://monkeyball-online.pages.dev/

6 months ago

Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python

https://www.dimamik.com/posts/oban_py/

6 months ago

Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/01/27/security/rust-at-scale-security-whatsapp/

6 months ago

In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/evidence-contradicts-trump-immigration-officials-accounts-violent-encounters-2026-01-27/

6 months ago

Make.ts

https://matklad.github.io/2026/01/27/make-ts.html

6 months ago

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers

https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood

6 months ago

LM Studio 0.4.0

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/0.4.0

6 months ago

Disrupting the Largest Residential Proxy Network

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network

6 months ago

Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model

https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-large

6 months ago

How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/01/26/how-london-became-the-rest-of-the-worlds-startup-capital

6 months ago

Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending

https://github.com/jmuncor/sherlock

6 months ago

Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/contributing/llm-policies/

6 months ago

AI found 12 vulnerabilities in OpenSSL

https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovered-12-out-of-12-openssl-vulnerabilities

6 months ago

I Stopped Following the News

https://mertbulan.com/2026/01/28/why-i-stopped-following-the-news/

6 months ago

Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection

https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/computer-history-museum-launches-digital-portal-to-its-vast-collection/

6 months ago

Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/02/did-a-celebrated-researcher-obscure-a-fatal-poisoning

6 months ago

Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/sporting/a70171886/ross-stevens-american-olympians-donation/

6 months ago

VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

https://www.visualjj.com/

6 months ago

NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/one-of-nasas-three-wb-57-aircraft-just-did-a-belly-landing-in-houston/

6 months ago

Spinning around: Please don't – Common problems with spin locks

https://www.siliceum.com/en/blog/post/spinning-around/

6 months ago

When Every Network is 192.168.1.x

https://netrinos.com/blog/conflicting-subnets

6 months ago

Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++

https://github.com/beginner-jhj/mini_browser

6 months ago

Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index

https://github.com/microsoft/bf-tree

6 months ago

The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)

https://thewrongtools.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/the-everdeck/

6 months ago

Nonograms: A practical guide with interactive examples

https://lab174.com/blog/202601-nonograms/

6 months ago

Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings

https://www.engadget.com/audio/native-instruments-enters-into-insolvency-proceedings-leaving-its-future-uncertain-183206826.html

6 months ago

Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tesla-earnings-profit-q4-2025/

6 months ago

If You Tax Them, Will They Leave?

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026/01/california-wealth-tax-billionaire-migration/685779/

6 months ago

A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/sicilian-man-leonardo-sciascia-rise-mafia-struggle-italy-soul-caroline-moorehead-review-lbsbd2p5w

6 months ago

Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy

https://hcs64.com/video-boy-vue/

6 months ago

Native Linux VST plugin directory

https://linuxmusic.rocks

6 months ago

Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History–Or Not?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/will-ais-take-all-our-jobs-and-end-human-history-or-not-well-its-complicated/

6 months ago

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block

6 months ago

Devuan – Debian Without Systemd

https://www.devuan.org/

6 months ago

Amazone One palm authentication discontinued

https://amazonone.aws.com/help

6 months ago

I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions

https://github.com/Pickle-Pixel/netflix-force-4k

6 months ago

Tesla profit plunges as sales fall and AI expenses pile up

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/28/tesla-earnings-elon-musk-ai

6 months ago

Transmission 4.1.0

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/releases/tag/4.1.0

6 months ago

Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/01/27/exploring-different-keyboard-sensing-technologies

6 months ago