HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-08

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    IBM to acquire Confluent (confluent.io)

    449 points · HN #46192130

  2. 02

    Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued (nhk.or.jp)

    349 points · HN #46192846

  3. 03

    Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices (office365itpros.com)

    477 points · HN #46192186

  4. 04

    Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1 (jepsen.io)

    432 points · HN #46196105

  5. 05

    AMD GPU Debugger (thegeeko.me)

    279 points · HN #46193931

  6. 06

    Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)

    329 points · HN #46194337

  7. 07

    Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? (martinalderson.com)

    421 points · HN #46196228

  8. 08

    Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables (nkinternet.com)

    289 points · HN #46194384

  9. 09

    Bag of words, have mercy on us (experimental-history.com)

    328 points · HN #46185957

  10. 10

    Trials avoid high risk patients and underestimate drug harms (nber.org)

    174 points · HN #46196308

  11. 11

    Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros (cnbc.com)

    367 points · HN #46192459

  12. 12

    Turtletoy (turtletoy.net)

    317 points · HN #46138459

  13. 13

    Microsoft Download Center Archive (legacyupdate.net)

    193 points · HN #46166178

  14. 14

    AI should only run as fast as we can catch up (higashi.blog)

    198 points · HN #46195198

  15. 15

    GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst (nesbitt.io)

    444 points · HN #46189692

  16. 16

    A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos (pkh.me)

    204 points · HN #46194477

  17. 17

    Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning (research.google)

    152 points · HN #46182031

  18. 18

    Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation (science.org)

    174 points · HN #46185576

  19. 19

    Damn Small Linux (damnsmalllinux.org)

    242 points · HN #46187387

  20. 20

    Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents (trynia.ai)

    131 points · HN #46194828

  21. 21

    Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams (fanfa.dev)

    154 points · HN #46147329

  22. 22

    Emacs is my new window manager (2015) (howardism.org)

    229 points · HN #46161328

  23. 23

    How I block all online ads (troubled.engineer)

    355 points · HN #46185816

  24. 24

    Flow: Actor-based language for C++, used by FoundationDB (github.com/apple)

    189 points · HN #46191763

  25. 25

    NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle (philippeoger.com)

    302 points · HN #46196076

  26. 26

    Twelve Days of Shell (cmdchallenge.com)

    258 points · HN #46190577

  27. 27

    The Nova Programming Language (nova-lang.net)

    118 points · HN #46192997

  28. 28

    The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks (steerlabs.substack.com)

    324 points · HN #46152838

  29. 29

    The fuck off contact page (nicchan.me)

    494 points · HN #46189994

  30. 30

    Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

    98 points · HN #46147285