HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2025-12-28

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    What an unprocessed photo looks like (maurycyz.com)

    2510 points · HN #46415225

  2. 02

    Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (substack.com)

    810 points · HN #46408988

  3. 03

    Calendar (neatnik.net)

    1108 points · HN #46408613

  4. 04

    Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML (htmhell.dev)

    748 points · HN #46407337

  5. 05

    Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should (marekfiser.com)

    279 points · HN #46414819

  6. 06

    Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA (quantamagazine.org)

    322 points · HN #46407502

  7. 07

    PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python (pysdr.org)

    230 points · HN #46413975

  8. 08

    MongoBleed Explained Simply (2minutestreaming.com)

    260 points · HN #46414475

  9. 09

    Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (seangoedecke.com)

    300 points · HN #46414723

  10. 10

    Project Vend: Phase Two (anthropic.com)

    197 points · HN #46354050

  11. 11

    Text rendering hates you (2019) (faultlore.com)

    193 points · HN #46349988

  12. 12

    Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains (yale.edu)

    224 points · HN #46415129

  13. 13

    Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling (stanislas.blog)

    289 points · HN #46410402

  14. 14

    Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32 (exquisite.tube)

    155 points · HN #46406098

  15. 15

    One year of keeping a tada list (ducktyped.org)

    273 points · HN #46354282

  16. 16

    Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free (scratchapixel.com)

    310 points · HN #46410210

  17. 17

    Rex is a safe kernel extension framework that allows Rust in the place of eBPF (github.com/rex-rs)

    146 points · HN #46361927

  18. 18

    Immer – A library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++ (github.com/arximboldi)

    127 points · HN #46348367

  19. 19

    Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure (rastrian.dev)

    158 points · HN #46406901

  20. 20

    Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server (dialtone.live)

    115 points · HN #46408192

  21. 21

    Say No to Palantir in the NHS (goodlawproject.org)

    602 points · HN #46405309

  22. 22

    C++ says “We have try... finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

    149 points · HN #46408984

  23. 23

    Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years (github.com/mockito)

    283 points · HN #46414078

  24. 24

    The Origins of APL (1974) [video] (youtube.com)

    56 points · HN #46350476

  25. 25

    Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief (eclecticlight.co)

    511 points · HN #46409969

  26. 26

    Remembering Lou Gerstner (ibm.com)

    95 points · HN #46413365

  27. 27

    Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer (ucsf.edu)

    166 points · HN #46409928

  28. 28

    7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG" (keshikan.net)

    44 points · HN #46406213

  29. 29

    Public Domain Day 2026 (duke.edu)

    124 points · HN #46405866

  30. 30

    No, it's not a battleship (navalgazing.net)

    186 points · HN #46413790