HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-15

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

    439 points · HN #46264491

  2. 02

    Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges (bloomberglaw.com)

    670 points · HN #46268854

  3. 03

    “Are you the one?” is free money (owenlacey.dev)

    481 points · HN #46241500

  4. 04

    I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me (marcusolang.substack.com)

    800 points · HN #46273466

  5. 05

    Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ (thenewstack.io)

    437 points · HN #46265362

  6. 06

    If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? (elpais.com)

    588 points · HN #46268709

  7. 07

    “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number (ericdaigle.ca)

    623 points · HN #46279123

  8. 08

    Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century (hpjansson.org)

    228 points · HN #46278208

  9. 09

    Essential Semiconductor Physics [pdf] (nanohub.org)

    224 points · HN #46256643

  10. 10

    AI agents are starting to eat SaaS (martinalderson.com)

    412 points · HN #46268452

  11. 11

    Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres (andyatkinson.com)

    377 points · HN #46272487

  12. 12

    Arborium: Tree-sitter code highlighting with Native and WASM targets (bearcove.eu)

    230 points · HN #46270298

  13. 13

    Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 (wired.com)

    439 points · HN #46281182

  14. 14

    Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES (relaxing.run)

    381 points · HN #46274822

  15. 15

    Unscii (viznut.fi)

    321 points · HN #46270282

  16. 16

    Umbrel – Personal Cloud (umbrel.com)

    220 points · HN #46279187

  17. 17

    SoundCloud has banned VPN access (reddit.com)

    293 points · HN #46269891

  18. 18

    Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers (andrewmccalip.com)

    195 points · HN #46281288

  19. 19

    The appropriate amount of effort is zero (expandingawareness.org)

    210 points · HN #46279825

  20. 20

    A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock (questdb.com)

    120 points · HN #46280465

  21. 21

    Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets (science.org)

    102 points · HN #46277090

  22. 22

    John Varley has died (floggingbabel.blogspot.com)

    173 points · HN #46269991

  23. 23

    In Defense of Matlab Code (runmat.org)

    144 points · HN #46248294

  24. 24

    It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs (benjojo.co.uk)

    215 points · HN #46274478

  25. 25

    Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time (apnews.com)

    212 points · HN #46178966

  26. 26

    Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates (letsencrypt.org)

    321 points · HN #46279241

  27. 27

    CapROS: Capability-Based Reliable Operating System (capros.org)

    112 points · HN #46268869

  28. 28

    Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide (mlive.com)

    456 points · HN #46275079

  29. 29

    The Whole App is a Blob (drobinin.com)

    164 points · HN #46270386

  30. 30

    An attempt to articulate Forth's practical strengths and eternal usefulness (im-just-lee.ing)

    85 points · HN #46186914