HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-10-27

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Claude for Excel (claude.com)

    684 points · HN #45722639

  2. 02

    It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts (pabloecortez.com)

    1300 points · HN #45722069

  3. 03

    Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] (cmog.org)

    363 points · HN #45721801

  4. 04

    JetKVM – Control any computer remotely (jetkvm.com)

    386 points · HN #45723159

  5. 05

    Easy RISC-V (dramforever.github.io)

    401 points · HN #45726192

  6. 06

    PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program (pyfound.blogspot.com)

    735 points · HN #45721904

  7. 07

    Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra (benbrubaker.com)

    238 points · HN #45723359

  8. 08

    Rust cross-platform GPUI components (github.com/longbridge)

    515 points · HN #45719004

  9. 09

    Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins (thenewstack.io)

    260 points · HN #45713359

  10. 10

    Tags to make HTML work like you expect (jim-nielsen.com)

    441 points · HN #45719140

  11. 11

    Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization (phys.org)

    216 points · HN #45725009

  12. 12

    MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities (github.com/cisco-ai-defense)

    168 points · HN #45723699

  13. 13

    How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in (lalinsky.com)

    329 points · HN #45716109

  14. 14

    Corrosion (fly.io)

    225 points · HN #45680583

  15. 15

    Should LLMs just treat text content as an image? (seangoedecke.com)

    167 points · HN #45652952

  16. 16

    The last European train that travels by sea (bbc.com)

    175 points · HN #45718711

  17. 17

    Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling (smithsonianmag.com)

    157 points · HN #45672615

  18. 18

    We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3" (nanit.com)

    328 points · HN #45715204

  19. 19

    TOON – Token Oriented Object Notation (github.com/johannschopplich)

    178 points · HN #45715632

  20. 20

    Recall for Linux (github.com/rolflobker)

    547 points · HN #45718231

  21. 21

    The new calculus of AI-based coding (joemag.dev)

    205 points · HN #45723686

  22. 22

    Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (2012) (tannerhelland.com)

    120 points · HN #45698323

  23. 23

    Fnox, a secret manager that pairs well with mise (github.com/jdx)

    185 points · HN #45722931

  24. 24

    Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers (hacktivate.app)

    281 points · HN #45669394

  25. 25

    Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013) (endpointdev.com)

    341 points · HN #45723554

  26. 26

    Are-we-fast-yet implementations in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon (github.com/rochus-keller)

    91 points · HN #45715873

  27. 27

    Sphere Computer – The Innovative 1970s Computer Company Everyone Forgot (sphere.computer)

    98 points · HN #45683536

  28. 28

    Show HN: JSON Query (jsonquerylang.org)

    154 points · HN #45722826

  29. 29

    What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine? (hackaday.com)

    433 points · HN #45718665

  30. 30

    Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams (adamlogue.com)

    218 points · HN #45715837