top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-29

Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants

https://blog.ncase.me/on-depression/

6 months ago

Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking

https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/

6 months ago

Europe's next-generation weather satellite sends back first images

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteorological_missions/meteosat_third_generation/Europe_s_next-generation_weather_satellite_sends_back_first_images

6 months ago

We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

6 months ago

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/

6 months ago

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/

6 months ago

Best Gas Masks

https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks

6 months ago

Compressed Agents.md > Agent Skills

https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals

6 months ago

Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/waymo-robotaxi-hits-a-child-near-an-elementary-school-in-santa-monica/

6 months ago

County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/county-pays-600000-to-pentesters-it-arrested-for-assessing-courthouse-security/

6 months ago

US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/us-cybersecurity-chief-leaked-sensitive-government-files-to-chatgpt-report-3311462/

6 months ago

Beautiful Mermaid

https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid

6 months ago

A lot of population numbers are fake

https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake

6 months ago

Grid: Forever free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer

https://grid.space/stem/

6 months ago

Tesla is committing automotive suicide

https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/tesla-committing-automotive-suicide/

6 months ago

The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat

https://bayramovanar.substack.com/p/tech-market-is-fucked-up

6 months ago

The WiFi only works when it's raining

https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/

6 months ago

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/

6 months ago

Flameshot

https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot

6 months ago

Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer

https://www.drugtargetreview.com/news/192714/drug-trio-found-to-block-tumour-resistance-in-pancreatic-cancer/

6 months ago