top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-01-31

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html

3 days ago

886 upvotes – 578 comments

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/euro_firms_must_ditch_us/

3 days ago

802 upvotes – 691 comments

Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media

https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494

3 days ago

738 upvotes – 566 comments

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/

4 days ago

467 upvotes – 152 comments

The $100B Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3

4 days ago

370 upvotes – 291 comments

Swift is a more convenient Rust

https://nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-swift-is-the-more-convenient-rust

3 days ago

327 upvotes – 354 comments

In Praise Of –Dry-Run

https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/

3 days ago

305 upvotes – 164 comments

Automatic Programming

https://antirez.com/news/159

3 days ago

280 upvotes – 240 comments

Outsourcing Thinking

https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html

3 days ago

269 upvotes – 216 comments

For most flagged articles, nearly every cited sentence failed verification

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/

3 days ago

243 upvotes – 122 comments

Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/inside-nvidias-10-year-effort-to-make-the-shield-tv-the-most-updated-android-device-ever/

3 days ago

239 upvotes – 211 comments

We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

https://blog.globalping.io/we-have-ipinfo-at-home-or-how-to-geolocate-ips-in-your-cli-using-latency/

3 days ago

226 upvotes – 61 comments

Court Filings: ICE App Identifies Protesters; Global Entry, PreCheck Get Revoked

https://viewfromthewing.com/court-filings-ice-uses-mobile-fortify-to-identify-protesters-global-entry-and-precheck-get-revoked/

4 days ago

224 upvotes – 90 comments

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf

3 days ago

223 upvotes – 191 comments

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/road_sign_hijack_ai/

3 days ago

218 upvotes – 203 comments

US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/us-has-investigated-claims-that-whatsapp-chats-aren-t-private

3 days ago

215 upvotes – 373 comments

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28/youtube-background-play-samsung-internet-brave/

3 days ago

202 upvotes – 202 comments

Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User

https://nemin.hu/guix.html

3 days ago

195 upvotes – 108 comments

Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine

https://crl.io/ds-game-engine/

3 days ago

188 upvotes – 48 comments

"Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick them up"

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/118080.html

3 days ago

178 upvotes – 122 comments
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