HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-10-11

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    The <output> Tag (denodell.com)

    840 points · HN #45547566

  2. 02

    Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year (slashdot.org)

    844 points · HN #45551504

  3. 03

    Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG (paddedinputs.substack.com)

    423 points · HN #45553577

  4. 04

    The World Trade Center under construction through photos, 1966-1979 (rarehistoricalphotos.com)

    240 points · HN #45498055

  5. 05

    Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025 (fsck.com)

    435 points · HN #45547344

  6. 06

    Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD (github.com/balajes)

    278 points · HN #45547359

  7. 07

    (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore (ericmigi.com)

    275 points · HN #45544228

  8. 08

    Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto (tangled.org)

    332 points · HN #45543899

  9. 09

    Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev (ounapuu.ee)

    218 points · HN #45489497

  10. 10

    AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline (arstechnica.com)

    326 points · HN #45546593

  11. 11

    Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature (mitchellh.com)

    334 points · HN #45549434

  12. 12

    GNU Health (gnuhealth.org)

    471 points · HN #45550049

  13. 13

    A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS (psyonik.tech)

    176 points · HN #45552049

  14. 14

    How hard do you have to hit a chicken to cook it? (2020) (james-simon.github.io)

    190 points · HN #45545965

  15. 15

    Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer (wickstrom.tech)

    183 points · HN #45545098

  16. 16

    Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland (bluewin.ch)

    580 points · HN #45547492

  17. 17

    Synthetic aperture radar autofocus and calibration (hforsten.com)

    201 points · HN #45512300

  18. 18

    How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012) (jherrm.github.io)

    185 points · HN #45506748

  19. 19

    A quiet change to RSA (johndcook.com)

    144 points · HN #45495051

  20. 20

    People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads (arstechnica.com)

    338 points · HN #45551081

  21. 21

    Rating 26 years of Java changes (neilmadden.blog)

    235 points · HN #45551450

  22. 22

    AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025 (videocardz.com)

    277 points · HN #45547537

  23. 23

    Microsoft Amplifier (github.com/microsoft)

    262 points · HN #45549848

  24. 24

    ThalamusDB: Query text, tables, images, and audio (github.com/itrummer)

    53 points · HN #45507753

  25. 25

    Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously (feelingof.com)

    87 points · HN #45514060

  26. 26

    Beyond indexes: How open table formats optimize query performance (jack-vanlightly.com)

    95 points · HN #45516964

  27. 27

    Building a JavaScript Runtime using C (devlogs.xyz)

    84 points · HN #45509636

  28. 28

    Hardware Stockholm Syndrome (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)

    106 points · HN #45498109

  29. 29

    Japan's summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers (kyodonews.net)

    160 points · HN #45552578

  30. 30

    Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS (youtube.com)

    137 points · HN #45548457