top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-30

Antirender- remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

https://antirender.com/

6 months ago

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/

6 months ago

GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-calls-linux-the-next-major-frontier-for-gaming-as-it-works-on-a-native-client/

6 months ago

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw

6 months ago

HTTP Cats

https://http.cat/

6 months ago

Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

https://www.blender.org/press/netflix-animation-studios-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/

6 months ago

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/

6 months ago

Tesla's Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor

https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/teslas-own-robotaxi-data-confirms-crash-rate-3x-worse-than-humans-even-with-monitor/

6 months ago

Way AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

6 months ago

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf

6 months ago

Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time

https://ztechtalk.com/microsoft-teams

6 months ago

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/4x-faster-network-file-sync-rclone-vs-rsync/

6 months ago

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

https://peerweb.lol/

6 months ago

Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2026

6 months ago

Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers

https://www.wpr.org/news/4-wisconsin-communities-signed-secrecy-deals-billion-dollar-data-centers

6 months ago

Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/silver-gold-fall-price-usd-dollar-fed-warsh-chair-trump-metals.html

6 months ago

Code is cheap. Show me the talk

https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/

6 months ago

Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/29/amazon-melania-spending

6 months ago

Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit

https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/

6 months ago

Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826277

6 months ago

Anthropic: AI Coding shows no productivity gains; impairs skill development

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

6 months ago

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/

6 months ago

Richard Feynman Side Hustles

https://twitter.com/carl_feynman/status/2016979540099420428

6 months ago

Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System

https://starlink.com/updates/stargaze

6 months ago

ClawdBot Skills ganked all my crypto

https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/clawdbot-skills-ganked-your-crypto

6 months ago

Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law

https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2026/01/30/mamdani-to-kill-the-nyc-ai-chatbot-we-caught-telling-businesses-to-break-the-law

6 months ago

Ode to the AA Battery

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ode-to-the-aa-battery/

6 months ago

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/

6 months ago

Lemonade Autonomous Car Insurance (With Tesla FSD Discount)

https://www.lemonade.com/car/explained/self-driving-car-insurance/

6 months ago

Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents

https://github.com/amlalabs/amla-sandbox

6 months ago

They lied to you. Building software is hard

https://blog.nordcraft.com/they-lied-to-you-building-software-is-really-hard

6 months ago

See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments

https://serjaimelannister.github.io/hn-words/

6 months ago

Hypergrowth isn’t always easy

https://tailscale.com/blog/hypergrowth-isnt-always-easy

6 months ago

Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2513692-yawning-has-an-unexpected-influence-on-the-fluid-inside-your-brain/

6 months ago

Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-rounds-up-thousands-mass-arrest-campaign-after-crushing-unrest-sources-say-2026-01-29/

6 months ago

1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/science/zapotec-tomb-mexico-scli-intl

6 months ago

Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone's Biometrics

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/washington-post-hannah-natanson-fbi-biometrics-unlock-phone/

6 months ago

How ICE Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html

6 months ago

The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt

https://tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html

6 months ago

I trapped an AI model inside an art installation (2025) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxMs

6 months ago

IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder

https://iso-coaster.com/

6 months ago

The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers

https://tedium.co/2026/01/29/niri-danklinux-scrolling-window-managers/

6 months ago

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820691

6 months ago

Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?

https://www.empirical.health/blog/vitamin-d-heart/

6 months ago

Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database

https://www.joedb.org/index.html

6 months ago

P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/p-vs-np-and-the-difficulty-of-computation-a-ruliological-approach/

6 months ago

Wikipedia: Sandbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox

6 months ago

Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/norway-ev-policy-electric-vehicles

6 months ago

Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/04/stonebraker-on-cap-theorem-and-databases/

6 months ago

Track Your Routine – Open-source app for task management

https://github.com/MSF01/TYR

6 months ago

Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/149366/MIT-LCS-TR-458.pdf?sequence=6

6 months ago

Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/30/jack-kerouac-on-the-road-first-draft-scroll-to-be-auctioned

6 months ago

US judge rules Luigi Mangione won't face death penalty in CEO killing case

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/30/us-judge-rules-mangione-will-not-face-death-penalty-for-ceo-murder

6 months ago

Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested after church protest in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-arrested-cbs-reports-2026-01-30/

6 months ago