HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-11-17

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter (bitsnpieces.dev)

    1278 points · HN #45900425

  2. 02

    Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses (bleepingcomputer.com)

    483 points · HN #45955900

  3. 03

    My stages of learning to be a socially normal person (sashachapin.substack.com)

    631 points · HN #45937302

  4. 04

    FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools (github.com/medusalix)

    334 points · HN #45953452

  5. 05

    Project Gemini (geminiprotocol.net)

    327 points · HN #45954640

  6. 06

    WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model (blog.google)

    291 points · HN #45954210

  7. 07

    Compiling Ruby to machine language (patshaughnessy.net)

    287 points · HN #45957629

  8. 08

    Where do the children play? (unpublishablepapers.substack.com)

    409 points · HN #45945114

  9. 09

    A file format uncracked for 20 years (landaire.net)

    299 points · HN #45837259

  10. 10

    How when AWS was down, we were not (authress.io)

    203 points · HN #45955565

  11. 11

    PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator (picoide.com)

    186 points · HN #45949352

  12. 12

    Neuroscientists track the neural activity underlying an “aha” (quantamagazine.org)

    164 points · HN #45948792

  13. 13

    Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis (github.com/francescopace)

    215 points · HN #45953977

  14. 14

    Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h) (hwisnu.bearblog.dev)

    271 points · HN #45952428

  15. 15

    Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies (angadh.com)

    129 points · HN #45954140

  16. 16

    Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop (github.com/anandchowdhary)

    170 points · HN #45938517

  17. 17

    Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication (scientificamerican.com)

    258 points · HN #45930438

  18. 18

    A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents (shoosmiths.com)

    207 points · HN #45949655

  19. 19

    Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) (britneyspears.ac)

    286 points · HN #45949326

  20. 20

    “One Student One Chip” Course Homepage (oscc.cc)

    185 points · HN #45901379

  21. 21

    Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL (peterullrich.com)

    175 points · HN #45885768

  22. 22

    A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser (greg.technology)

    139 points · HN #45950396

  23. 23

    Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware (github.com/felipenlunkes)

    125 points · HN #45958717

  24. 24

    Building a Simple Search Engine That Works (karboosx.net)

    279 points · HN #45950720

  25. 25

    How to escape the Linux networking stack (cloudflare.com)

    148 points · HN #45954638

  26. 26

    Google is killing the open web, part 2 (oblomov.eu)

    418 points · HN #45954560

  27. 27

    The time has finally come for geothermal energy (newyorker.com)

    160 points · HN #45953568

  28. 28

    A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism (newrepublic.com)

    126 points · HN #45955889

  29. 29

    An official atlas of North Korea (cartographerstale.com)

    228 points · HN #45956176

  30. 30

    Are you stuck in movie logic? (usefulfictions.substack.com)

    239 points · HN #45952890