HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-11

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    GPT-5.2 (openai.com)

    1195 points · HN #46234788

  2. 02

    Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration (ankursethi.com)

    845 points · HN #46223311

  3. 03

    The highest quality codebase (gricha.dev)

    641 points · HN #46197930

  4. 04

    Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free (riviantrackr.com)

    395 points · HN #46234920

  5. 05

    Patterns.dev (patterns.dev)

    627 points · HN #46226483

  6. 06

    Craft software that makes people feel something (rapha.land)

    344 points · HN #46231274

  7. 07

    Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools (lr0.org)

    422 points · HN #46234806

  8. 08

    An SVG is all you need (recoil.org)

    347 points · HN #46235959

  9. 09

    Litestream VFS (fly.io)

    377 points · HN #46234710

  10. 10

    Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components (react.dev)

    346 points · HN #46236924

  11. 11

    French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] (youtube.com)

    499 points · HN #46231187

  12. 12

    iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] (youtube.com)

    709 points · HN #46232528

  13. 13

    Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative (github.com/simstudioai)

    240 points · HN #46234186

  14. 14

    The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora (openai.com)

    269 points · HN #46231493

  15. 15

    VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III (vcmi.eu)

    191 points · HN #46174534

  16. 16

    The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void (suggger.substack.com)

    129 points · HN #46231709

  17. 17

    My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) (jeffhuang.com)

    295 points · HN #46236037

  18. 18

    EFF launches Age Verification Hub (eff.org)

    375 points · HN #46223389

  19. 19

    The Cost of a Closure in C (thephd.dev)

    213 points · HN #46228597

  20. 20

    Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program (serversfor.dev)

    271 points · HN #46147987

  21. 21

    Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow (cloudflare.com)

    143 points · HN #46192748

  22. 22

    Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation

    77 points · HN #46232434

  23. 23

    Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction (steampowered.com)

    276 points · HN #46131518

  24. 24

    Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS (csswg.org)

    197 points · HN #46227619

  25. 25

    How the Brain Parses Language (quantamagazine.org)

    152 points · HN #46191597

  26. 26

    A “frozen” dictionary for Python (lwn.net)

    191 points · HN #46229467

  27. 27

    UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16 (alecmuffett.com)

    394 points · HN #46236738

  28. 28

    Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years (cam.ac.uk)

    76 points · HN #46119762

  29. 29

    An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions (arxiv.org)

    90 points · HN #46232220

  30. 30

    Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them (github.com/privacyshield-ai)

    111 points · HN #46206591