HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-11-02

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997 (visopsys.org)

    494 points · HN #45785858

  2. 02

    Notes by djb on using Fil-C (cr.yp.to)

    365 points · HN #45788040

  3. 03

    Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016) (karpathy.medium.com)

    353 points · HN #45787993

  4. 04

    URLs are state containers (alfy.blog)

    512 points · HN #45789474

  5. 05

    Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch (tongyi-agent.github.io)

    365 points · HN #45789602

  6. 06

    Why don't you use dependent types? (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

    269 points · HN #45790827

  7. 07

    Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again (jsteuernagel.de)

    399 points · HN #45789424

  8. 08

    Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020) (openculture.com)

    409 points · HN #45793466

  9. 09

    X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland (x.org)

    207 points · HN #45790015

  10. 10

    How I use every Claude Code feature (sshh.io)

    534 points · HN #45786738

  11. 11

    Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark (gamingonlinux.com)

    832 points · HN #45792503

  12. 12

    Pomelli (blog.google)

    291 points · HN #45786324

  13. 13

    Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody (krebsonsecurity.com)

    173 points · HN #45793244

  14. 14

    Anti-cybercrime laws are being weaponized to repress journalism (cjr.org)

    327 points · HN #45792209

  15. 15

    Lisp: Notes on its Past and Future (1980) (stanford.edu)

    193 points · HN #45792579

  16. 16

    Writing FreeDOS Programs in C (freedos.org)

    145 points · HN #45790293

  17. 17

    Is Your Bluetooth Chip Leaking Secrets via RF Signals? (semanticscholar.org)

    150 points · HN #45792166

  18. 18

    Reproducing the AWS Outage Race Condition with a Model Checker (wyounas.github.io)

    144 points · HN #45792373

  19. 19

    Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015) (cringely.com)

    136 points · HN #45745382

  20. 20

    Anonymous credentials: rate-limit bots and agents without compromising privacy (cloudflare.com)

    104 points · HN #45786914

  21. 21

    Automatically Translating C to Rust (acm.org)

    115 points · HN #45695483

  22. 22

    LM8560, the eternal chip from the 1980 years (tycospages.com)

    135 points · HN #45787842

  23. 23

    Why does Swiss cheese have holes? (usdairy.com)

    105 points · HN #45735246

  24. 24

    3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf] (retrocmp.de)

    123 points · HN #45727696

  25. 25

    Crossfire: High-performance lockless spsc/mpsc/mpmc channels for Rust (github.com/frostyplanet)

    102 points · HN #45787571

  26. 26

    Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples (dhuan.github.io)

    137 points · HN #45789556

  27. 27

    How to build a solar powered electric oven (lowtechmagazine.com)

    91 points · HN #45703666

  28. 28

    At the end you use `git bisect` (kevin3010.github.io)

    232 points · HN #45791882

  29. 29

    Rats filmed snatching bats from air (science.org)

    153 points · HN #45730366

  30. 30

    Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK (bbc.co.uk)

    49 points · HN #45745415