HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-11-18

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues (cloudflarestatus.com)

    2432 points · HN #45963780

  2. 02

    Gemini 3 (blog.google)

    1735 points · HN #45967211

  3. 03

    Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem (cloudflare.com)

    1465 points · HN #45973709

  4. 04

    Google Antigravity (antigravity.google)

    1088 points · HN #45967814

  5. 05

    Blender 5.0 (blender.org)

    1053 points · HN #45972519

  6. 06

    Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright (bbc.com)

    863 points · HN #45966251

  7. 07

    Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward (ericmigi.com)

    468 points · HN #45969250

  8. 08

    Rebecca Heineman has died (pcgamer.com)

    980 points · HN #45960368

  9. 09

    Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun (iflscience.com)

    471 points · HN #45944158

  10. 10

    I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon (joinmastodon.org)

    617 points · HN #45969909

  11. 11

    How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack (fabiensanglard.net)

    528 points · HN #45962654

  12. 12

    Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf] (storage.googleapis.com)

    280 points · HN #45963670

  13. 13

    Solving a million-step LLM task with zero errors (arxiv.org)

    222 points · HN #45968362

  14. 14

    Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders (windowslatest.com)

    703 points · HN #45959795

  15. 15

    The code and open-source tools I used to produce a science fiction anthology (compellingsciencefiction.com)

    215 points · HN #45968121

  16. 16

    How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one (32bits.substack.com)

    342 points · HN #45916094

  17. 17

    Short Little Difficult Books (countercraft.substack.com)

    210 points · HN #45966435

  18. 18

    GitHub: Git operation failures (githubstatus.com)

    383 points · HN #45971726

  19. 19

    Show HN: RowboatX – open-source Claude Code for everyday automations (github.com/rowboatlabs)

    131 points · HN #45970338

  20. 20

    OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad (bbenchoff.github.io)

    220 points · HN #45970391

  21. 21

    The surprising benefits of giving up (nautil.us)

    243 points · HN #45961481

  22. 22

    Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to (huijzer.xyz)

    481 points · HN #45965060

  23. 23

    Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files (github.com/kaushiksrini)

    167 points · HN #45959780

  24. 24

    The Miracle of Wörgl (scf.green)

    159 points · HN #45963583

  25. 25

    What I learned about creativity from a man painting on a treadmill (2024) (quinnmaclay.com)

    74 points · HN #45926141

  26. 26

    Gemini 3 Pro Model Card (pixeldrain.com)

    431 points · HN #45963836

  27. 27

    Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions (github.com/rust9x)

    135 points · HN #45960852

  28. 28

    Core Devices keeps stealing our work (rebble.io)

    608 points · HN #45960893

  29. 29

    Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark (simonwillison.net)

    181 points · HN #45970519

  30. 30

    GoSign Desktop RCE flaws affecting users in Italy (ush.it)

    86 points · HN #45964835