HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-10-25

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    The Journey Before main() (prasad.me)

    316 points · HN #45706380

  2. 02

    Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways (saxrag.com)

    669 points · HN #45695134

  3. 03

    First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself (quantamagazine.org)

    547 points · HN #45694856

  4. 04

    California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind (latimes.com)

    349 points · HN #45706527

  5. 05

    People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses (nbcnews.com)

    321 points · HN #45653639

  6. 06

    Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations (github.com/rohanadwankar)

    266 points · HN #45706792

  7. 07

    Why I code as a CTO (assembled.com)

    308 points · HN #45695979

  8. 08

    Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking (nike.com)

    125 points · HN #45706765

  9. 09

    Making a micro Linux distro (2023) (popovicu.com)

    197 points · HN #45703556

  10. 10

    How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015) (lwn.net)

    141 points · HN #45706938

  11. 11

    Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink (mbleigh.dev)

    177 points · HN #45682164

  12. 12

    We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable (libera.chat)

    295 points · HN #45705381

  13. 13

    Rock Tumbler Instructions (rocktumbler.com)

    197 points · HN #45705125

  14. 14

    What is intelligence? (2024) (antikythera.org)

    181 points · HN #45700663

  15. 15

    The future of Python web services looks GIL-free (baro.dev)

    203 points · HN #45633311

  16. 16

    Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update (iverify.io)

    245 points · HN #45700946

  17. 17

    An Update on TinyKVM (fwsgonzo.medium.com)

    150 points · HN #45706866

  18. 18

    Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL (no code changes needed) (github.com/microsoft)

    98 points · HN #45706729

  19. 19

    WebDAV isn't dead yet (feld.me)

    247 points · HN #45698070

  20. 20

    Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly (economist.com)

    351 points · HN #45701305

  21. 21

    AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages (technologyreview.com)

    131 points · HN #45706518

  22. 22

    Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes (shadcnthemer.com)

    136 points · HN #45706487

  23. 23

    The geometry of mathematical methods (oregonstate.edu)

    80 points · HN #45640363

  24. 24

    React vs. Backbone in 2025 (hyperclay.com)

    305 points · HN #45702558

  25. 25

    Passwords and Power Drills (google.github.io)

    121 points · HN #45653543

  26. 26

    Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation (synadia.com)

    405 points · HN #45703716

  27. 27

    Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself) (eugeneyan.com)

    137 points · HN #45700911

  28. 28

    Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts (itnews.com.au)

    155 points · HN #45701825

  29. 29

    ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety (2018) [pdf] (llvm.org)

    73 points · HN #45706815

  30. 30

    An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf] (washington.edu)

    53 points · HN #45706924