HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-11-04

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Things you can do with diodes (lcamtuf.substack.com)

    407 points · HN #45805900

  2. 02

    This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm (tomshardware.com)

    437 points · HN #45812024

  3. 03

    Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access (github.com/snowflake-labs)

    371 points · HN #45812606

  4. 04

    When stick figures fought (animationobsessive.substack.com)

    389 points · HN #45806348

  5. 05

    My Truck Desk (theparisreview.org)

    471 points · HN #45806903

  6. 06

    I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars (rameerez.com)

    520 points · HN #45816041

  7. 07

    Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator (layoutit.com)

    371 points · HN #45811093

  8. 08

    Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It (cognition.ai)

    315 points · HN #45813767

  9. 09

    A friendly tour of process memory on Linux (0xkato.xyz)

    246 points · HN #45805539

  10. 10

    You can't cURL a Border (drobinin.com)

    471 points · HN #45806263

  11. 11

    Whole Earth Index (wholeearth.info)

    263 points · HN #45734259

  12. 12

    By the Power of Grayscale (zserge.com)

    274 points · HN #45771151

  13. 13

    Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

    647 points · HN #45807775

  14. 14

    What is a manifold? (quantamagazine.org)

    393 points · HN #45809193

  15. 15

    NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware (github.com/codykociemba)

    385 points · HN #45813343

  16. 16

    Tenacity – a multi-track audio editor/recorder (tenacityaudio.org)

    160 points · HN #45718710

  17. 17

    Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results (torrentfreak.com)

    397 points · HN #45816968

  18. 18

    Bloom filters are good for search that does not scale (notpeerreviewed.com)

    208 points · HN #45808998

  19. 19

    Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers (github.com/vivier)

    124 points · HN #45729340

  20. 20

    Customize Nano Text Editor (2022) (ddns.net)

    164 points · HN #45702316

  21. 21

    Optimizing Datalog for the GPU (danglingpointers.substack.com)

    127 points · HN #45811447

  22. 22

    Launch HN: Plexe (YC P25) – Build production-grade ML models from prompts (plexe.ai)

    85 points · HN #45813310

  23. 23

    Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future? (byroot.github.io)

    78 points · HN #45733836

  24. 24

    Singing bus horns in West Sumatra (auralarchipelago.com)

    105 points · HN #45692042

  25. 25

    Chaining FFmpeg with a Browser Agent (100x.bot)

    108 points · HN #45810430

  26. 26

    How devtools map minified JS code back to your TypeScript source code (polarsignals.com)

    107 points · HN #45812000

  27. 27

    Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?

    186 points · HN #45744209

  28. 28

    Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator (tomverbeure.github.io)

    63 points · HN #45719250

  29. 29

    Linkers (2007) (airs.com)

    81 points · HN #45805514

  30. 30

    Aisuru botnet shifts from DDoS to residential proxies (krebsonsecurity.com)

    59 points · HN #45741357