HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-22

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    The Illustrated Transformer (jalammar.github.io)

    500 points · HN #46357675

  2. 02

    Claude Code gets native LSP support (github.com/anthropics)

    511 points · HN #46355165

  3. 03

    GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability (z.ai)

    437 points · HN #46357287

  4. 04

    Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors (ieee.org)

    343 points · HN #46357945

  5. 05

    NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut (jeffgeerling.com)

    335 points · HN #46355949

  6. 06

    Programming languages used for music (timthompson.com)

    316 points · HN #46338437

  7. 07

    Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases (kierangill.xyz)

    307 points · HN #46354970

  8. 08

    The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 (dfarq.homeip.net)

    281 points · HN #46353777

  9. 09

    CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally (ieee.org)

    370 points · HN #46345506

  10. 10

    The Garbage Collection Handbook (gchandbook.org)

    284 points · HN #46357870

  11. 11

    Deliberate Internet Shutdowns (schneier.com)

    327 points · HN #46316050

  12. 12

    Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf (disneyparksblog.com)

    280 points · HN #46348847

  13. 13

    Debian's Git Transition (diziet.dreamwidth.org)

    256 points · HN #46352231

  14. 14

    US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified (arstechnica.com)

    612 points · HN #46357881

  15. 15

    The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice (bbc.com)

    201 points · HN #46352565

  16. 16

    Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go (rue-lang.dev)

    257 points · HN #46348262

  17. 17

    Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts (koi.ai)

    323 points · HN #46359996

  18. 18

    Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2) (arxiv.org)

    131 points · HN #46357458

  19. 19

    Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere (nasa.gov)

    142 points · HN #46325475

  20. 20

    Build Android apps using Rust and Iced (github.com/ibaryshnikov)

    173 points · HN #46350641

  21. 21

    If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014) (gregmckeown.com)

    452 points · HN #46352930

  22. 22

    Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom (reason.com)

    386 points · HN #46355888

  23. 23

    ONNX Runtime and CoreML May Silently Convert Your Model to FP16 (ym2132.github.io)

    98 points · HN #46350075

  24. 24

    Functional Flocking Quadtree in ClojureScript (lbjgruppen.com)

    103 points · HN #46286906

  25. 25

    How I protect my Forgejo instance from AI web crawlers (esy.fun)

    189 points · HN #46345205

  26. 26

    Kernighan's Lever (linusakesson.net)

    112 points · HN #46331292

  27. 27

    Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe (avbrief.com)

    283 points · HN #46346214

  28. 28

    Aliasing (xania.org)

    96 points · HN #46286813

  29. 29

    Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot (enzom.dev)

    173 points · HN #46357451

  30. 30

    How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-culture (ieee.org)

    83 points · HN #46304195