HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-03

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Ghostty is now non-profit (mitchellh.com)

    1343 points · HN #46138238

  2. 02

    IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off (businessinsider.com)

    857 points · HN #46124324

  3. 03

    Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files (alexschapiro.com)

    821 points · HN #46137514

  4. 04

    Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service (theregister.com)

    1066 points · HN #46131406

  5. 05

    1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long (conwaylife.com)

    526 points · HN #46137253

  6. 06

    Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (micron.com)

    763 points · HN #46137783

  7. 07

    Everyone in Seattle hates AI (jonready.com)

    967 points · HN #46138952

  8. 08

    RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js (github.com/vercel)

    628 points · HN #46136026

  9. 09

    “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill (nber.org)

    829 points · HN #46134443

  10. 10

    Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions (finfam.app)

    393 points · HN #46139761

  11. 11

    How to Synthesize a House Loop (loopmaster.xyz)

    260 points · HN #46072280

  12. 12

    You can't fool the optimizer (xania.org)

    267 points · HN #46133622

  13. 13

    Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public (ft.com)

    367 points · HN #46132531

  14. 14

    MinIO is now in maintenance-mode (github.com/minio)

    511 points · HN #46136023

  15. 15

    Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game? (alexene.dev)

    226 points · HN #46135627

  16. 16

    Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024) (medium.com/atari-club)

    292 points · HN #46130335

  17. 17

    Accepting US car standards would risk European lives (etsc.eu)

    860 points · HN #46131330

  18. 18

    Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics (quantamagazine.org)

    174 points · HN #46138632

  19. 19

    AI agents break rules under everyday pressure (ieee.org)

    279 points · HN #46067995

  20. 20

    Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB (tomshardware.com)

    437 points · HN #46134178

  21. 21

    Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app

    138 points · HN #46137548

  22. 22

    Super fast aggregations in PostgreSQL 19 (cybertec-postgresql.com)

    226 points · HN #46054467

  23. 23

    Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet (brocas.org)

    146 points · HN #46141745

  24. 24

    The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition (dancohen.org)

    189 points · HN #46058154

  25. 25

    Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? (martinalderson.com)

    241 points · HN #46133141

  26. 26

    Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k (gamesindustry.biz)

    337 points · HN #46130187

  27. 27

    Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic (torproject.org)

    104 points · HN #46050624

  28. 28

    GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles (yunfan.zone)

    118 points · HN #46134991

  29. 29

    A Look at Rust from 2012 (purplesyringa.moe)

    153 points · HN #46050855

  30. 30

    Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil (scienceclock.com)

    105 points · HN #46130907