HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-26

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    How uv got so fast (nesbitt.io)

    1290 points · HN #46393992

  2. 02

    Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)

    784 points · HN #46391514

  3. 03

    Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI (skyview.social)

    1550 points · HN #46392115

  4. 04

    Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations (utah.edu)

    494 points · HN #46393936

  5. 05

    LearnixOS (learnix-os.com)

    273 points · HN #46391599

  6. 06

    The best things and stuff of 2025 (fogus.me)

    415 points · HN #46365726

  7. 07

    Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system (github.com/pranshuparmar)

    526 points · HN #46392910

  8. 08

    My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL (reddit.com)

    504 points · HN #46395184

  9. 09

    How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023) (johndcook.com)

    209 points · HN #46395106

  10. 10

    The Algebra of Loans in Rust (nadrieril.github.io)

    227 points · HN #46357814

  11. 11

    Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines (github.com/valdanylchuk)

    154 points · HN #46392736

  12. 12

    FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub (twitter.com/ffmpeg)

    555 points · HN #46394327

  13. 13

    MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming (minimaxi.com)

    228 points · HN #46388213

  14. 14

    Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players (gamingcouch.com)

    437 points · HN #46344573

  15. 15

    TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models (github.com/thu-ml)

    248 points · HN #46388907

  16. 16

    Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors (sfconservancy.org)

    446 points · HN #46388040

  17. 17

    Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

    340 points · HN #46391572

  18. 18

    Tiled Art (tiled.art)

    261 points · HN #46324881

  19. 19

    Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode (nullprogram.com)

    125 points · HN #46391448

  20. 20

    Paperbacks and TikTok (calnewport.com)

    142 points · HN #46358211

  21. 21

    Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?

    272 points · HN #46385197

  22. 22

    Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall (arstechnica.com)

    72 points · HN #46328725

  23. 23

    Drawing with zero-width characters (swerdlow.dev)

    122 points · HN #46395061

  24. 24

    Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith (catalinionescu.dev)

    109 points · HN #46390055

  25. 25

    Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf] (douira.dev)

    77 points · HN #46390667

  26. 26

    What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World? (1985) (straightdope.com)

    125 points · HN #46352016

  27. 27

    When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions (online.fr)

    81 points · HN #46388059

  28. 28

    Tachyon: High frequency statistical sampling profiler (python.org)

    101 points · HN #46353257

  29. 29

    Gaussian Splatting 3 Ways (github.com/nullandkale)

    74 points · HN #46395273

  30. 30

    Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core (nytimes.com)

    92 points · HN #46360080