HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-11-19

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max (openai.com)

    483 points · HN #45982649

  2. 02

    Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws (theverge.com)

    975 points · HN #45980117

  3. 03

    Loose wire leads to blackout, contact with Francis Scott Key bridge (ntsb.gov)

    430 points · HN #45984659

  4. 04

    Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp (univie.ac.at)

    310 points · HN #45985036

  5. 05

    Meta Segment Anything Model 3 (meta.com)

    692 points · HN #45982073

  6. 06

    Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector (downdetectorsdowndetector.com)

    591 points · HN #45974012

  7. 07

    Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable (theverge.com)

    561 points · HN #45985506

  8. 08

    AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power (chrbutler.com)

    545 points · HN #45983700

  9. 09

    Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support (thunderbird.net)

    463 points · HN #45978423

  10. 10

    Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System (amoses.dev)

    256 points · HN #45985867

  11. 11

    Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150 (dragas.net)

    193 points · HN #45982162

  12. 12

    Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body problem simulator (trisolarchaos.com)

    249 points · HN #45967079

  13. 13

    I just want working RCS messaging (wt.gd)

    318 points · HN #45974869

  14. 14

    How Slide Rules Work (amenzwa.github.io)

    203 points · HN #45985196

  15. 15

    Launch HN: Mosaic (YC W25) – Agentic Video Editing (mosaic.so)

    148 points · HN #45980760

  16. 16

    Ultima VII Revisited (github.com/viridiangames)

    232 points · HN #45893007

  17. 17

    A $1k AWS mistake (geocod.io)

    339 points · HN #45977744

  18. 18

    Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality' (bbc.com)

    335 points · HN #45961886

  19. 19

    Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship (aclu.org)

    468 points · HN #45979297

  20. 20

    Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation (github.com/tyfeld)

    136 points · HN #45977542

  21. 21

    Vortex: An extensible, state of the art columnar file format (github.com/vortex-data)

    115 points · HN #45934665

  22. 22

    The Future of Programming (2013) [video] (youtube.com)

    166 points · HN #45912457

  23. 23

    Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022) (corecursive.com)

    244 points · HN #45973573

  24. 24

    The Lucas-Lehmer Prime Number Test (scientificamerican.com)

    96 points · HN #45903273

  25. 25

    Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board (cnbc.com)

    334 points · HN #45979190

  26. 26

    The Death of Arduino? (linkedin.com)

    458 points · HN #45984143

  27. 27

    Bluetooth Channel Sounding: The Next Leap in Bluetooth Innovation (embedded.com)

    82 points · HN #45913870

  28. 28

    How to stay sane in a world that rewards insanity (joanwestenberg.com)

    360 points · HN #45980106

  29. 29

    Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use (apa.org)

    319 points · HN #45984353

  30. 30

    The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects (shkspr.mobi)

    196 points · HN #45979232