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Hacker News Best Stories

Updated: 2026-01-07 06:00:12 CST

#	Title	Score
1	It's hard to justify Tahoe icons	▲2400
2	enclose.horse	▲1041
3	There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout	▲907
4	Databases in 2025: A Year in Review	▲659
5	Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension	▲652
6	AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention	▲639
7	Google broke my heart	▲517
8	Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die	▲486
9	Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%	▲482
10	RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?	▲444
11	65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform	▲438
12	I switched from VSCode to Zed	▲438
13	C Is Best (2025)	▲362
14	Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”	▲341
15	During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website	▲341
16	Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android	▲331
17	X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced	▲318
18	All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)	▲308
19	California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info	▲302
20	Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?	▲299
21	Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities	▲297
22	A spider web unlike any seen before	▲289
23	Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring	▲274
24	Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale	▲263
25	I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)	▲253
26	Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons	▲249
27	Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density	▲248
28	Sega co-founder David Rosen has died	▲246
29	ICE is using facial-recognition technology to quickly arrest people	▲225
30	Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?	▲218
31	Strange.website	▲199
32	GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button	▲186
33	State of the Fin 2026-01-06	▲182
34	How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders	▲182
35	Decorative Cryptography	▲165
36	North Dakota law lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyers' names	▲160
37	CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)	▲154
38	Pentagon moves to punish Democratic senator over 'seditious video'	▲153
39	Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly	▲151
40	Cigarette smoke effect using shaders	▲150
41	So, you want to chunk really fast?	▲149
42	GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive	▲145
43	Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023)	▲142
44	Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war	▲140
45	Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone	▲138
46	Dealing with abandonware (2024)	▲136
47	OneDrive just deleted all of my files	▲122
48	A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall	▲121