top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-01-31

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

Swift is a more convenient Rust

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

6 months ago

In Praise Of –Dry-Run

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

6 months ago

Automatic Programming

https://antirez.com/news/159

6 months ago

Outsourcing Thinking

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

6 months ago

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/

6 months ago

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/

6 months ago

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/

6 months ago

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/

6 months ago

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

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

6 months ago

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

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

6 months ago

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

6 months ago

YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other Browsers

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

6 months ago

Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User

https://nemin.hu/guix.html

6 months ago

Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/31/us-authorities-reportedly-investigate-claims-that-meta-can-read-encrypted-whatsapp-messages

6 months ago

Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839375

6 months ago

CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider

https://physicsworld.com/a/cern-accepts-1bn-in-private-cash-towards-future-circular-collider/

6 months ago

Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)

https://archaeologyworlds.com/5500-year-old-sumerian-star-map-recorded/

6 months ago

150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/150-mb-minimal-freebsd-installation/

6 months ago

Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc.

https://github.com/zupat/related_post_gen

6 months ago

The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/college-students-movies-attention-span/685812/

6 months ago

Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/puget-systems-most-reliable-hardware-of-2025/

6 months ago

Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/31/record-harvest-berlin-giveaway-potatoes

6 months ago

Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musks-starlink-updates-privacy-policy-230853500.html

6 months ago

The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login-logout_1305_mickens.pdf

6 months ago

Show HN: Phage Explorer

https://phage-explorer.org/

6 months ago

Goblins: Distributed, Transactional Programming with Racket and Guile

https://spritely.institute/goblins/

6 months ago

Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS

https://genode.org/about/index

6 months ago

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/ice-expands-power-agents-warrants.html

6 months ago

Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/foundational-anxieties-modern-mathematics-and-the-political-imagination/

6 months ago

Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838946

6 months ago

Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images

https://github.com/rtvkiz/minimal

6 months ago

Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland

https://github.com/noctalia-dev/noctalia-shell

6 months ago

Brazilian Micro-SaaS Map

https://saas-map.ssr.trapiche.cloud/

6 months ago

Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)

https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity

6 months ago

Best of Moltbook

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook

6 months ago

The Mathematics of Tuning Systems

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/tuning_talk/

6 months ago

Coding Is When We're Least Productive

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/coding-is-when-were-least-productive/

6 months ago

Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21473

6 months ago

You are being misled about renewable energy technology [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

6 months ago

Why S7 Scheme? (2020)

https://iainctduncan.github.io/scheme-for-max-docs/s7.html

6 months ago

htmx: Server Sent Event (SSE) Extension

https://htmx.org/extensions/sse/

6 months ago

Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/bitcoin-btc-slides-toward-longest-monthly-losing-streak-since-2018

6 months ago