HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-10-28

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea (arstechnica.com)

    1587 points · HN #45720376

  2. 02

    What we talk about when we talk about sideloading (f-droid.org)

    1516 points · HN #45736479

  3. 03

    EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages (eurollm.io)

    773 points · HN #45733707

  4. 04

    Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k (threads.com)

    1034 points · HN #45734582

  5. 05

    The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem (basicappleguy.com)

    513 points · HN #45733329

  6. 06

    Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell (googleblog.com)

    411 points · HN #45701901

  7. 07

    Boring is what we wanted (512pixels.net)

    440 points · HN #45738247

  8. 08

    Ubiquiti SFP Wizard (ui.com)

    260 points · HN #45732874

  9. 09

    Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update (arstechnica.com)

    629 points · HN #45737338

  10. 10

    Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties (npr.org)

    620 points · HN #45733197

  11. 11

    Generative AI Image Editing Showdown (specr.net)

    342 points · HN #45739080

  12. 12

    Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud (itsfoss.com)

    479 points · HN #45732485

  13. 13

    OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly (techcrunch.com)

    389 points · HN #45727060

  14. 14

    HTTPS by default (googleblog.com)

    302 points · HN #45736499

  15. 15

    Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes (theconversation.com)

    201 points · HN #45714348

  16. 16

    Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter (andonlabs.com)

    229 points · HN #45733169

  17. 17

    Poker Tournament for LLMs (pokerbattle.ai)

    311 points · HN #45730094

  18. 18

    Mapping the off-target effects of every FDA-approved drug in existence (owlposting.com)

    162 points · HN #45736608

  19. 19

    Why do some radio towers blink? (jeffgeerling.com)

    179 points · HN #45737941

  20. 20

    The decline of deviance (experimental-history.com)

    313 points · HN #45734620

  21. 21

    Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (developer.apple.com)

    318 points · HN #45692116

  22. 22

    A brief history of random numbers (2018) (crates.io)

    214 points · HN #45733412

  23. 23

    Iroh-blobs (iroh.computer)

    142 points · HN #45727557

  24. 24

    How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep (massgeneralbrigham.org)

    179 points · HN #45701546

  25. 25

    We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source (samsaffron.com)

    300 points · HN #45731321

  26. 26

    Show HN: Bash Screensavers (github.com/attogram)

    246 points · HN #45731366

  27. 27

    The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership (openai.com)

    366 points · HN #45732350

  28. 28

    Complete Digitization of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus (openculture.com)

    147 points · HN #45728975

  29. 29

    Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels (ijmpr.in)

    341 points · HN #45732670

  30. 30

    Sick: Indexed deduplicated binary storage for JSON-like data structures (github.com/7mind)

    124 points · HN #45732552