HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-19

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters (deuxfleurs.fr)

    722 points · HN #46326984

  2. 02

    Mistral OCR 3 (mistral.ai)

    694 points · HN #46313390

  3. 03

    History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts (github.com/dgoettlich)

    897 points · HN #46319826

  4. 04

    CSS Grid Lanes (webkit.org)

    754 points · HN #46331586

  5. 05

    Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks (kdpcommunity.com)

    634 points · HN #46324078

  6. 06

    1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 (jeffgeerling.com)

    617 points · HN #46319657

  7. 07

    GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust (mullvad.net)

    632 points · HN #46324543

  8. 08

    TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy (evilsocket.net)

    347 points · HN #46329038

  9. 09

    Graphite is joining Cursor (cursor.com)

    276 points · HN #46327206

  10. 10

    8-bit Boléro (linusakesson.net)

    345 points · HN #46324702

  11. 11

    Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest (dosaygo-studio.github.io)

    1384 points · HN #46326588

  12. 12

    Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels (noclip.website)

    485 points · HN #46321619

  13. 13

    Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens (ngrok.com)

    306 points · HN #46290620

  14. 14

    The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project (github.com/freebsdfoundation)

    193 points · HN #46326519

  15. 15

    Show HN: TinyPDF – 3kb pdf library (70x smaller than jsPDF) (github.com/lulzx)

    253 points · HN #46316968

  16. 16

    Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes (lorendb.dev)

    295 points · HN #46322540

  17. 17

    Rust's Block Pattern (notgull.net)

    218 points · HN #46322391

  18. 18

    A better zip bomb (2019) (bamsoftware.com)

    191 points · HN #46331216

  19. 19

    Great ideas in theoretical computer science (cs251.com)

    203 points · HN #46319946

  20. 20

    Believe the Checkbook (robertgreiner.com)

    171 points · HN #46327133

  21. 21

    Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say (washingtonpost.com)

    192 points · HN #46321947

  22. 22

    NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models (noaa.gov)

    159 points · HN #46306497

  23. 23

    Lite^3, a JSON-compatible zero-copy serialization format (github.com/fastserial)

    152 points · HN #46251460

  24. 24

    Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model (huggingface.co)

    130 points · HN #46321972

  25. 25

    From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality with Lean 4 (sdiehl.github.io)

    145 points · HN #46259343

  26. 26

    Performance Hints (abseil.io)

    143 points · HN #46328274

  27. 27

    Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations (alexschapiro.com)

    134 points · HN #46328992

  28. 28

    Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code (pckf.com)

    177 points · HN #46321982

  29. 29

    The pitfalls of partitioning Postgres yourself (hatchet.run)

    93 points · HN #46292148

  30. 30

    2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results (ads.apple.com)

    261 points · HN #46322556