HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-09-29

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Claude Sonnet 4.5 (anthropic.com)

    1585 points · HN #45415962

  2. 02

    F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree (f-droid.org)

    1478 points · HN #45409794

  3. 03

    Claude Code 2.0 (npmjs.com)

    842 points · HN #45416228

  4. 04

    Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web (loadmo.re)

    385 points · HN #45415207

  5. 05

    Zlib visualizer (lynn.github.io)

    319 points · HN #45373784

  6. 06

    Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol (openai.com)

    248 points · HN #45416080

  7. 07

    What is “good taste” in software engineering? (seangoedecke.com)

    342 points · HN #45410940

  8. 08

    What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world? (neilzone.co.uk)

    674 points · HN #45412419

  9. 09

    Subtleties of SQLite Indexes (emschwartz.me)

    137 points · HN #45415332

  10. 10

    Users only care about 20% of your application (idiallo.com)

    405 points · HN #45395468

  11. 11

    A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are Expensive (ethanseal.com)

    170 points · HN #45413525

  12. 12

    California governor signs AI transparency bill into law (ca.gov)

    315 points · HN #45418428

  13. 13

    Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool (zeroasic.com)

    187 points · HN #45410155

  14. 14

    Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII (2k.com)

    236 points · HN #45382300

  15. 15

    Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing (hackaday.com)

    200 points · HN #45414215

  16. 16

    Optimizing a 6502 image decoder, from 70 minutes to 1 minute (colino.net)

    195 points · HN #45412022

  17. 17

    Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32% (lightcapai.medium.com)

    358 points · HN #45413481

  18. 18

    John Jumper: AI is revolutionizing scientific discovery [video] (youtube.com)

    124 points · HN #45414933

  19. 19

    Primer on FedEx's Distribution Network (2024) (ontheseams.substack.com)

    141 points · HN #45409552

  20. 20

    The Long Trip from Silica to Smartphone (ieee.org)

    117 points · HN #45371856

  21. 21

    Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity (pkh.me)

    107 points · HN #45413588

  22. 22

    Cleaning house in Nx monorepo, how i removed unused deps safely (johnjames.blog)

    88 points · HN #45409526

  23. 23

    ML on Apple ][+ (mdcramer.github.io)

    120 points · HN #45415510

  24. 24

    Fernflower Java Decompiler (github.com/jetbrains)

    136 points · HN #45378450

  25. 25

    Not all OCuLink eGPU docks are created equal (jeffgeerling.com)

    117 points · HN #45414479

  26. 26

    Patagonian Welsh (wikipedia.org)

    109 points · HN #45369286

  27. 27

    Queueing to publish in AI and CS (damaru2.github.io)

    94 points · HN #45411291

  28. 28

    Don't Become a Scientist (1999) (ua.edu)

    133 points · HN #45417637

  29. 29

    Jax: Fast Combinations Calculation (github.com/phoenicyan)

    61 points · HN #45418875

  30. 30

    DeepSeek-v3.2-Exp (github.com/deepseek-ai)

    309 points · HN #45412098