HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-09-26

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think (github.com/apple)

    471 points · HN #45389267

  2. 02

    Open Social (overreacted.io)

    991 points · HN #45388021

  3. 03

    Traefik's 10-year anniversary (traefik.io)

    253 points · HN #45357732

  4. 04

    Raspberry Pi 500+ (raspberrypi.com)

    421 points · HN #45370304

  5. 05

    Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers (reuters.com)

    525 points · HN #45381810

  6. 06

    US cities pay too much for buses (bloomberg.com)

    355 points · HN #45386578

  7. 07

    The Beauty of Programming (2001) (brynmawr.edu)

    241 points · HN #45356429

  8. 08

    If you are harassed by lasers (laserpointersafety.com)

    237 points · HN #45389965

  9. 09

    CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells (lumafield.com)

    287 points · HN #45364932

  10. 10

    Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras (evanstonroundtable.com)

    411 points · HN #45382434

  11. 11

    Modular Manifolds (thinkingmachines.ai)

    161 points · HN #45388728

  12. 12

    Auth.js is now part of Better Auth (better-auth.com)

    179 points · HN #45389293

  13. 13

    How to make sense of any mess (howtomakesenseofanymess.com)

    462 points · HN #45334001

  14. 14

    No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves (lichess.org)

    365 points · HN #45382755

  15. 15

    Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW (suno.com)

    208 points · HN #45388822

  16. 16

    Exploit allows for takeover of fleets of Unitree robots (ieee.org)

    155 points · HN #45381590

  17. 17

    Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres (dizzy.zone)

    352 points · HN #45380699

  18. 18

    Investigating a Forged PDF (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

    319 points · HN #45381010

  19. 19

    New math revives geometry's oldest problems (quantamagazine.org)

    144 points · HN #45391871

  20. 20

    My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod (joewintergreen.com)

    275 points · HN #45382397

  21. 21

    Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website (nseldeib.com)

    178 points · HN #45336775

  22. 22

    Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta (system76.com)

    435 points · HN #45384481

  23. 23

    Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D (vazgriz.com)

    263 points · HN #45383637

  24. 24

    How insurance risk is transformed into investable assets (riskvest.io)

    145 points · HN #45390856

  25. 25

    Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust (max-inden.de)

    367 points · HN #45387462

  26. 26

    Ultra efficient vector extension for SQLite (marcobambini.substack.com)

    173 points · HN #45347619

  27. 27

    Why use mailing lists? (ietf.org)

    248 points · HN #45390121

  28. 28

    Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander (masteringemacs.org)

    178 points · HN #45391566

  29. 29

    A platform-jumping prince – History of Prince of Persia's 1990s Ports (jordanmechner.com)

    189 points · HN #45382645

  30. 30

    RNA structure prediction is hard. How much does that matter? (owlposting.com)

    70 points · HN #45390866