HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-11-16

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem (github.com/kavishdevar)

    1424 points · HN #45941596

  2. 02

    Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models (github.com/p-e-w)

    745 points · HN #45945587

  3. 03

    Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit (djnn.sh)

    1160 points · HN #45944296

  4. 04

    Things that aren't doing the thing (strangestloop.io)

    517 points · HN #45939431

  5. 05

    FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT (bit-hack.net)

    235 points · HN #45945784

  6. 06

    I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure (jonathanclark.com)

    685 points · HN #45948058

  7. 07

    Open-source Zig book (zigbook.net)

    692 points · HN #45947810

  8. 08

    I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels (david.coffee)

    311 points · HN #45946865

  9. 09

    The fate of "small" open source (nolanlawson.com)

    295 points · HN #45947639

  10. 10

    Fourier Transforms (continuummechanics.org)

    178 points · HN #45825413

  11. 11

    Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021) (github.com/jonasstrehle)

    357 points · HN #45947770

  12. 12

    The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023) (ahalbert.com)

    219 points · HN #45948254

  13. 13

    Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015) (ericpony.github.io)

    155 points · HN #45947301

  14. 14

    Garbage collection is useful (dubroy.com)

    165 points · HN #45944969

  15. 15

    Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust (github.com/hans-halverson)

    239 points · HN #45944337

  16. 16

    IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs (codeberg.org/idemacs)

    301 points · HN #45941835

  17. 17

    When did people favor composition over inheritance? (sicpers.info)

    230 points · HN #45841095

  18. 18

    Dark Pattern Games (darkpattern.games)

    350 points · HN #45947761

  19. 19

    When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

    320 points · HN #45941563

  20. 20

    Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript (owl.is)

    198 points · HN #45941441

  21. 21

    Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares (unflipgame.com)

    184 points · HN #45891066

  22. 22

    AsciiMath (asciimath.org)

    141 points · HN #45940706

  23. 23

    Linux mode setting, from the comfort of OCaml (roscidus.com)

    84 points · HN #45947822

  24. 24

    Maybe you’re not trying (usefulfictions.substack.com)

    448 points · HN #45943979

  25. 25

    The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024) (polybdenum.com)

    127 points · HN #45941443

  26. 26

    Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight (greatscottgadgets.com)

    134 points · HN #45815948

  27. 27

    What if you don't need MCP at all? (mariozechner.at)

    237 points · HN #45947444

  28. 28

    Writing a DOS Clone in 2019 (medium.com/andrewimm)

    70 points · HN #45795778

  29. 29

    UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales (bbc.com)

    172 points · HN #45944056

  30. 30

    Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018) (cnbc.com)

    249 points · HN #45949247