HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-10-04

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving (github.com/debarghag)

    326 points · HN #45475529

  2. 02

    Zig builds are getting faster (mitchellh.com)

    434 points · HN #45468698

  3. 03

    A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code (github.com/johnperry-math)

    290 points · HN #45473861

  4. 04

    Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet (sciencedaily.com)

    269 points · HN #45427972

  5. 05

    Paged Out Issue #7 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)

    305 points · HN #45472319

  6. 06

    Inkjet printer with DRM-free ink will be launched via a crowdfunding campaign (notebookcheck.net)

    553 points · HN #45423404

  7. 07

    New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work (mcmaster.ca)

    205 points · HN #45469579

  8. 08

    Blog Feeds (blogfeeds.net)

    226 points · HN #45475808

  9. 09

    Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner (2004) (folklore.org)

    164 points · HN #45472765

  10. 10

    Show HN: Cobalt – a pixel-art painting studio for the Nintendo DS (benbridle.com)

    174 points · HN #45431115

  11. 11

    The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is closing (buchstabenmuseum.de)

    204 points · HN #45472678

  12. 12

    Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+ (essenceia.github.io)

    257 points · HN #45471136

  13. 13

    How to inject knowledge efficiently? Knowledge infusion scaling law for LLMs (arxiv.org)

    105 points · HN #45474900

  14. 14

    Old Stockholm Telephone Tower (wikipedia.org)

    168 points · HN #45447057

  15. 15

    Systems Programming with Zig (manning.com)

    166 points · HN #45436289

  16. 16

    Self-hosting email like it's 1984 (maxadamski.com)

    269 points · HN #45473730

  17. 17

    Effective context engineering for AI agents (anthropic.com)

    148 points · HN #45418251

  18. 18

    Clavier: An FPGA-based mechanical keyboard with USB hub and comms interfaces (github.com/lsartory)

    106 points · HN #45440180

  19. 19

    Arenas in Rust (russellw.github.io)

    134 points · HN #45467032

  20. 20

    $912 energy independence without red tape (sunboxlabs.com)

    209 points · HN #45476820

  21. 21

    Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024) (toyotatimes.jp)

    135 points · HN #45470206

  22. 22

    The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users (eff.org)

    394 points · HN #45476273

  23. 23

    How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer (seangoedecke.com)

    353 points · HN #45473852

  24. 24

    Show HN: Run – a CLI universal code runner I built while learning Rust (github.com/esubaalew)

    96 points · HN #45475528

  25. 25

    Baseball durations after the pitch clock (leancrew.com)

    71 points · HN #45433936

  26. 26

    Sora Update #1 (samaltman.com)

    137 points · HN #45469437

  27. 27

    Five years as a startup CTO: How, why, and was it worth it? (2024) (distinctplace.com)

    155 points · HN #45437044

  28. 28

    Binary Formats Gallery (kaitai.io)

    117 points · HN #45469285

  29. 29

    Discrete Fourier Transform (nima101.github.io)

    92 points · HN #45422315

  30. 30

    Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices (eff.org)

    355 points · HN #45473698