HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-10-18

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    ./watch (dotslashwatch.com)

    403 points · HN #45626130

  2. 02

    Root System Drawings (wur.nl)

    401 points · HN #45627394

  3. 03

    New Work by Gary Larson (thefarside.com)

    538 points · HN #45622365

  4. 04

    Tinnitus Neuromodulator (mynoise.net)

    395 points · HN #45628391

  5. 05

    Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code (github.com/willcrichton)

    280 points · HN #45627692

  6. 06

    IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023) (blogsystem5.substack.com)

    617 points · HN #45626910

  7. 07

    How to sequence your DNA for <$2k (maxlangenkamp.substack.com)

    252 points · HN #45629970

  8. 08

    AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo (chipsandcheese.com)

    207 points · HN #45624888

  9. 09

    K8s with 1M nodes (bchess.github.io)

    284 points · HN #45611252

  10. 10

    Why the open social web matters now (werd.io)

    225 points · HN #45583999

  11. 11

    Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years (nationalarchives.gov.uk)

    186 points · HN #45606986

  12. 12

    Who invented deep residual learning? (idsia.ch)

    114 points · HN #45567050

  13. 13

    The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [pdf] (programmingmadecomplicated.wordpress.com)

    148 points · HN #45623917

  14. 14

    Ripgrep 15.0 (github.com/burntsushi)

    476 points · HN #45627324

  15. 15

    Picturing Mathematics (mathenchant.wordpress.com)

    109 points · HN #45628283

  16. 16

    SQL Anti-Patterns (datamethods.substack.com)

    296 points · HN #45626985

  17. 17

    Coral NPU: A full-stack platform for Edge AI (research.google)

    146 points · HN #45600470

  18. 18

    Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU (pkh.me)

    157 points · HN #45626037

  19. 19

    Is Postgres read heavy or write heavy? (crunchydata.com)

    192 points · HN #45619108

  20. 20

    Adding Breadcrumbs to a Rails Application (avohq.io)

    64 points · HN #45578115

  21. 21

    Ruby Blocks (stonecharioteer.com)

    193 points · HN #45581602

  22. 22

    StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source (github.com/openmixerproject)

    188 points · HN #45625251

  23. 23

    Lux: A luxurious package manager for Lua (github.com/lumen-oss)

    98 points · HN #45626961

  24. 24

    Solution to CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is found in Smithsonian vault (nytimes.com)

    158 points · HN #45603876

  25. 25

    Tahoe's Elephant (eclecticlight.co)

    86 points · HN #45556536

  26. 26

    Our Paint – A featureless but programmable painting program (wellobserve.com)

    96 points · HN #45560738

  27. 27

    Show HN: ServiceRadar – open-source Network Observability Platform (github.com/carverauto)

    61 points · HN #45624186

  28. 28

    Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize (quantamagazine.org)

    83 points · HN #45574106

  29. 29

    Satellite images show ancient hunting traps used by South American social groups (phys.org)

    54 points · HN #45563021

  30. 30

    The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root (utcc.utoronto.ca)

    97 points · HN #45570517