HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-09-28

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying (privacybadger.org)

    849 points · HN #45404021

  2. 02

    Play snake in the URL address bar (ferrei.ro)

    860 points · HN #45408021

  3. 03

    The AI coding trap (chrisloy.dev)

    685 points · HN #45405177

  4. 04

    Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant (nature.com)

    532 points · HN #45370798

  5. 05

    When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order” (tronto.net)

    594 points · HN #45404022

  6. 06

    Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware (arstechnica.com)

    265 points · HN #45363465

  7. 07

    Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition (2013) [pdf] (columbia.edu)

    347 points · HN #45406109

  8. 08

    Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads (toolbrew.co)

    269 points · HN #45404667

  9. 09

    Learn to play Go (online-go.com)

    403 points · HN #45400376

  10. 10

    Go ahead, write the “stupid” code (spikepuppet.io)

    242 points · HN #45408617

  11. 11

    Scm2wasm: A Scheme to WASM compiler in 600 lines of C, making use of WASM GC (lain.faith)

    189 points · HN #45405175

  12. 12

    Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust (handy.computer)

    237 points · HN #45399106

  13. 13

    Farewell friends (humbledollar.com)

    355 points · HN #45408229

  14. 14

    I built and launched the first AirPods-Controlled Game (apps.apple.com)

    222 points · HN #45362365

  15. 15

    Solar panels + cold = A potential problem (linspyre.com)

    172 points · HN #45401051

  16. 16

    IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016) (ibmfiles.com)

    88 points · HN #45401907

  17. 17

    Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union (ashvardanian.com)

    127 points · HN #45402820

  18. 18

    We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4 (modal.com)

    134 points · HN #45399637

  19. 19

    High-power microwave defeats drone swarm (epirusinc.com)

    231 points · HN #45399863

  20. 20

    UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards (petition.parliament.uk)

    313 points · HN #45406442

  21. 21

    The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding (mitpress.mit.edu)

    88 points · HN #45371188

  22. 22

    VMScape and why Xen dodged it (virtualize.sh)

    123 points · HN #45406573

  23. 23

    Thoughts on Cloudflare (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

    216 points · HN #45396234

  24. 24

    Just how resilient are large language models? (rdrocket.com)

    57 points · HN #45361476

  25. 25

    The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign (bbc.com)

    86 points · HN #45361568

  26. 26

    Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android (is-a.dev)

    108 points · HN #45367732

  27. 27

    Testing “Exotic” P2P VPN (nommy.moe)

    129 points · HN #45405815

  28. 28

    The QMA Singularity (scottaaronson.blog)

    80 points · HN #45406911

  29. 29

    Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and sea peoples (dynomight.net)

    52 points · HN #45374665

  30. 30

    Time travel? Or, just clever technology (syncdna.com)

    75 points · HN #45375462