HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-10-19

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013) (stanford.edu)

    680 points · HN #45635533

  2. 02

    Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake (science.org)

    423 points · HN #45637744

  3. 03

    Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site (tomshardware.com)

    428 points · HN #45613898

  4. 04

    United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet (avbrief.com)

    404 points · HN #45636285

  5. 05

    Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103 (chinadaily.com.cn)

    292 points · HN #45625229

  6. 06

    Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100% (github.com/gillou68310)

    235 points · HN #45637880

  7. 07

    Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one (ounapuu.ee)

    217 points · HN #45577181

  8. 08

    GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime (jupyter.org)

    181 points · HN #45635069

  9. 09

    When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

    409 points · HN #45609986

  10. 10

    Replacement.ai (replacement.ai)

    1000 points · HN #45634095

  11. 11

    Compare Single Board Computers (sbc.compare)

    222 points · HN #45636365

  12. 12

    EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers (youtube.com)

    263 points · HN #45626349

  13. 13

    Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi (cmaiolino.wordpress.com)

    165 points · HN #45637133

  14. 14

    The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish (southernwoodenboatsailing.com)

    151 points · HN #45556911

  15. 15

    Show HN: Duck-UI – Browser-Based SQL IDE for DuckDB (duckui.com)

    213 points · HN #45633453

  16. 16

    The case for the return of fine-tuning (welovesota.com)

    167 points · HN #45633081

  17. 17

    Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds (tamu.edu)

    159 points · HN #45634026

  18. 18

    The Accountability Problem (jamesshore.com)

    144 points · HN #45631678

  19. 19

    The macOS LC_COLLATE hunt: Or why does sort order differently on macOS and Linux (2020) (zhimingwang.org)

    97 points · HN #45633815

  20. 20

    OpenAI researcher announced GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened (the-decoder.com)

    430 points · HN #45633482

  21. 21

    Xubuntu.org Might Be Compromised (reddit.com)

    365 points · HN #45634367

  22. 22

    Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data (psu.edu)

    110 points · HN #45629299

  23. 23

    The reason GCC is not a library (2000) (gcc.gnu.org)

    168 points · HN #45557032

  24. 24

    How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams (ducktypelabs.com)

    90 points · HN #45573626

  25. 25

    How to Assemble an Electric Heating Element from Scratch (lowtechmagazine.com)

    110 points · HN #45633958

  26. 26

    Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices? (optimizedbyotto.com)

    120 points · HN #45636116

  27. 27

    Show HN: Pyversity – Fast Result Diversification for Retrieval and RAG (github.com/pringled)

    86 points · HN #45634310

  28. 28

    Friendship Begins at Home (3quarksdaily.com)

    166 points · HN #45631503

  29. 29

    Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator (shkspr.mobi)

    100 points · HN #45633642

  30. 30

    The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies (theguardian.com)

    128 points · HN #45557596