HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-10-17

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents (dwarkesh.com)

    1212 points · HN #45619329

  2. 02

    Live Stream from the Namib Desert (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

    569 points · HN #45615931

  3. 03

    Migrating from AWS to Hetzner (digitalsociety.coop)

    1140 points · HN #45614922

  4. 04

    Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (simonwillison.net)

    738 points · HN #45619537

  5. 05

    EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars (restofworld.org)

    431 points · HN #45615237

  6. 06

    The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation (50centadjustedforinflation.com)

    816 points · HN #45618790

  7. 07

    The pivot (antipope.org)

    492 points · HN #45621074

  8. 08

    4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence (alecmuffett.com)

    467 points · HN #45614148

  9. 09

    Meow.camera (meow.camera)

    667 points · HN #45613047

  10. 10

    Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock (techcrunch.com)

    581 points · HN #45614713

  11. 11

    Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler (ruby-lang.org)

    667 points · HN #45615863

  12. 12

    Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support (aiven.io)

    282 points · HN #45593358

  13. 13

    Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network (science.org)

    301 points · HN #45617819

  14. 14

    PlayStation 3 Architecture (2021) (copetti.org)

    202 points · HN #45576536

  15. 15

    Cloudflare Sandbox SDK (cloudflare.com)

    256 points · HN #45610523

  16. 16

    Elixir 1.19 (elixir-lang.org)

    385 points · HN #45602428

  17. 17

    Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right? (skyvern.com)

    150 points · HN #45620653

  18. 18

    A 4k-Room Text Adventure Written by One Human in QBasic No AI (the-ventureweaver.itch.io)

    155 points · HN #45555709

  19. 19

    MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks (news.mit.edu)

    98 points · HN #45552358

  20. 20

    WebMCP (github.com/jasonjmcghee)

    136 points · HN #45622604

  21. 21

    The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003) (wired.com)

    95 points · HN #45556104

  22. 22

    Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain (lwn.net)

    112 points · HN #45612987

  23. 23

    Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, Spec-Kit, and Tessl (martinfowler.com)

    128 points · HN #45610996

  24. 24

    Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments (aiengineering.report)

    141 points · HN #45610266

  25. 25

    Read your way through Hà Nội (vietnamesetypography.com)

    93 points · HN #45550969

  26. 26

    Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids? (ucsd.edu)

    99 points · HN #45611851

  27. 27

    America’s semiconductor boom [video] (youtube.com)

    191 points · HN #45611735

  28. 28

    When if is just a function (ryelang.org)

    113 points · HN #45580347

  29. 29

    Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?

    288 points · HN #45613567

  30. 30

    A liver transplant from start to finish (asimov.com)

    127 points · HN #45559040