HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-10-14

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI (boydkane.com)

    537 points · HN #45583180

  2. 02

    How bad can a $2.97 ADC be? (excamera.substack.com)

    278 points · HN #45582462

  3. 03

    What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on (ourworldindata.org)

    710 points · HN #45583336

  4. 04

    Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf] (ucsd.edu)

    555 points · HN #45575391

  5. 05

    Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe (mpg.de)

    260 points · HN #45580699

  6. 06

    Ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment (bbc.com)

    405 points · HN #45514378

  7. 07

    Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence (rollingstone.com)

    267 points · HN #45521032

  8. 08

    A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe (trthaber.com)

    411 points · HN #45498887

  9. 09

    ADS-B Exposed (adsb.exposed)

    337 points · HN #45578383

  10. 10

    DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS (krebsonsecurity.com)

    181 points · HN #45574393

  11. 11

    America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom (washingtonpost.com)

    487 points · HN #45568915

  12. 12

    Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking (lighthousereports.com)

    482 points · HN #45584498

  13. 13

    How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters (boldvoice.com)

    260 points · HN #45581735

  14. 14

    Zoo of array languages (ktye.github.io)

    178 points · HN #45578540

  15. 15

    SmolBSD – build your own minimal BSD system (smolbsd.org)

    265 points · HN #45582758

  16. 16

    Why Is SQLite Coded In C (sqlite.org)

    357 points · HN #45584464

  17. 17

    Why is everything so scalable? (stavros.io)

    408 points · HN #45525168

  18. 18

    GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels (androidauthority.com)

    422 points · HN #45585869

  19. 19

    Hacking the Humane AI Pin (agg.im)

    182 points · HN #45515915

  20. 20

    LLMs are getting better at character-level text manipulation (burkert.me)

    138 points · HN #45572478

  21. 21

    New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules (apnews.com)

    400 points · HN #45575755

  22. 22

    Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial (transactional.blog)

    116 points · HN #45576502

  23. 23

    Show HN: Metorial (YC F25) – Vercel for MCP (github.com/metorial)

    59 points · HN #45580771

  24. 24

    KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser (kde.org)

    278 points · HN #45578117

  25. 25

    Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust (pyrefly.org)

    203 points · HN #45579275

  26. 26

    How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface (tidbits.com)

    223 points · HN #45583787

  27. 27

    Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean (spillhistorie.no)

    130 points · HN #45568708

  28. 28

    Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction? (cursor.com)

    328 points · HN #45577080

  29. 29

    Why study programming languages (2022) (csail.mit.edu)

    158 points · HN #45576623

  30. 30

    Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes (turso.tech)

    80 points · HN #45508462