Hacker News on Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux(himthe.dev)

1633 points by bobsterlobster 9 months ago | 1288 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author switched from Microsoft Windows to Linux.

Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app(macrumors.com)

978 points by pier25 9 months ago | 807 comments

MacRumors article reporting Apple set a November 1, 2026 deadline for Patreon creators to move to App Store in-app purchases, giving Apple up to a 30% cut.

Amazon cuts 16k jobs(reuters.com)

612 points by DGAP 9 months ago | 838 comments

Reuters news article reporting that Amazon is cutting 16,000 jobs globally as part of a restructuring tied to AI and efficiency efforts.

Airfoil (2024)(ciechanow.ski)

508 points by brk 9 months ago | 59 comments

Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airfoils generate lift by examining the forces created by airflow around aircraft wings.

Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance(alecmuffett.com)

506 points by wubin 9 months ago | 131 comments

Blog post on Alec Muffett's Dropsafe about spoofed ADS-B signals using an Air Force Two ICAO identity to draw a JD Vance meme over Mar-a-Lago on flight trackers.

Please Don't Say Mean Things about the AI I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In(mcsweeneys.net)

478 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 211 comments

A McSweeney's humor piece by Forest Abruzzo satirizing an investor who pleads with people not to criticize the AI he invested a billion dollars in.

Tesla ending Models S and X production(cnbc.com)

474 points by keyboardJones 9 months ago | 979 comments

CNBC news article reporting that Tesla will end Model S and X production and convert Fremont factory lines to build Optimus robots, per Musk on the Q4 earnings call.

UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M(mahadk.com)

329 points by JustSkyfall 9 months ago | 97 comments

Blog post criticizing the UK Government's AI Skills Hub, a site delivered by PwC under a £4.1 million contract, describing it as essentially a bookmarks site.

ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants(bmj.com)

327 points by dberhane 9 months ago | 155 comments

A BMJ article reporting on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement using Palantir tools and health data to locate undocumented immigrants.

ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions(asml.com)

308 points by dep_b 9 months ago | 297 comments

Show HN: The HN Arcade(andrewgy8.github.io)

307 points by yuppiepuppie 9 months ago | 81 comments

Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89(scientificamerican.com)

279 points by CrossVR 9 months ago | 98 comments

Android’s desktop interface leaks(9to5google.com)

271 points by thunderbong 9 months ago | 358 comments

My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)(jaisenmathai.com)

267 points by jmathai 9 months ago | 116 comments

Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python(dimamik.com)

247 points by dimamik 9 months ago | 97 comments

Super Monkey Ball ported to a website(monkeyball-online.pages.dev)

236 points by rebasedoctopus 9 months ago | 67 comments

Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out(moltbook.com)

236 points by schlichtm 9 months ago | 838 comments

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers(github.com)

226 points by orhunp_ 9 months ago | 47 comments

Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp(engineering.fb.com)

225 points by ubj 9 months ago | 112 comments

Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model(arcee.ai)

224 points by linolevan 9 months ago | 72 comments

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network(cloud.google.com)

215 points by cdrnsf 9 months ago | 199 comments

Make.ts(matklad.github.io)

201 points by ingve 9 months ago | 108 comments

Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending(github.com)

200 points by jmuncor 9 months ago | 104 comments

LM Studio 0.4(lmstudio.ai)

200 points by jiqiren 9 months ago | 112 comments

That's not how email works(danq.me)

196 points by HotGarbage 9 months ago | 126 comments

How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital(economist.com)

185 points by ellieh 9 months ago | 283 comments

Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection(computerhistory.org)

175 points by ChrisArchitect 9 months ago | 29 comments

Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?(newyorker.com)

172 points by littlexsparkee 9 months ago | 66 comments

Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy(jellyfin.org)

170 points by mmoogle 9 months ago | 90 comments

AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release(aisle.com)

168 points by mmsc 9 months ago | 121 comments

VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code(visualjj.com)

165 points by demail 9 months ago | 76 comments

NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston(arstechnica.com)

154 points by verzali 9 months ago | 81 comments

Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k(townandcountrymag.com)

145 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 105 comments

Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks(siliceum.com)

135 points by bdash 9 months ago | 55 comments

Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index(github.com)

121 points by SchwKatze 9 months ago | 18 comments

The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)(thewrongtools.wordpress.com)

117 points by surprisetalk 9 months ago | 34 comments

Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++(github.com)

106 points by crediblejhj 9 months ago | 31 comments

When Every Network is 192.168.1.x(netrinos.com)

104 points by pcarroll 9 months ago | 83 comments

Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples(lab174.com)

89 points by merelysounds 9 months ago | 24 comments

Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy(hcs64.com)

85 points by hcs 9 months ago | 30 comments

In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives(reuters.com)

83 points by petethomas 9 months ago | 32 comments

Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings(engadget.com)

79 points by elevaet 9 months ago | 17 comments

Native Linux VST plugin directory(linuxmusic.rocks)

77 points by Aldipower 9 months ago | 22 comments

I Stopped Following the News(mertbulan.com)

77 points by mertbio 9 months ago | 69 comments

A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived(thetimes.com)

77 points by Thevet 9 months ago | 73 comments

Amazon One palm authentication discontinued(amazonone.aws.com)

71 points by KerryJones 9 months ago | 145 comments

Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

69 points by lukakopajtic 9 months ago | 129 comments

Devuan – Debian Without Systemd(devuan.org)

66 points by smartmic 9 months ago | 80 comments

Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies(lttlabs.com)

60 points by viraptor 9 months ago | 43 comments

If you tax them, will they leave?(theatlantic.com)

55 points by JumpCrisscross 9 months ago | 158 comments

I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions(github.com)

54 points by picklepixel 9 months ago | 33 comments

Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts(github.com)

49 points by mifydev 9 months ago | 13 comments

Drawings of the elements of CMS detector, in the style of Leonardo da Vinci(cds.cern.ch)

49 points by nill0 9 months ago | 8 comments

How watercolor brushes are made (2015)(handprint.com)

46 points by YeGoblynQueenne 9 months ago | 5 comments

A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study(sentienceapi.com)

45 points by tonyww 9 months ago | 19 comments

Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI(nbcnews.com)

44 points by unpredict 9 months ago | 52 comments

Apple MacBook Pro order deliveries delayed until mid March(apple.com)

44 points by behnamoh 9 months ago | 10 comments

Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025(techcrunch.com)

43 points by coloneltcb 9 months ago | 9 comments

SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $30B More in OpenAI(wsj.com)

40 points by JumpCrisscross 9 months ago | 36 comments

Dole Kemp 96 Web Site(dolekemp96.org)

40 points by DamnInteresting 9 months ago | 45 comments