HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-01-01

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    2025: The Year in LLMs (simonwillison.net)

    940 points · HN #46449643

  2. 02

    Linux is good now (pcgamer.com)

    1194 points · HN #46457770

  3. 03

    A website to destroy all websites (henry.codes)

    790 points · HN #46457784

  4. 04

    Cameras and Lenses (2020) (ciechanow.ski)

    549 points · HN #46455872

  5. 05

    Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] (ccc.de)

    551 points · HN #46453204

  6. 06

    Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust (openworkers.com)

    500 points · HN #46454693

  7. 07

    BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal (bloomberg.com)

    361 points · HN #46454977

  8. 08

    I rebooted my social life (jamesomalley.co.uk)

    528 points · HN #46453114

  9. 09

    Python numbers every programmer should know (mkennedy.codes)

    429 points · HN #46454470

  10. 10

    2025 Letter (danwang.co)

    398 points · HN #46454413

  11. 11

    Can Bundler be as fast as uv? (tenderlovemaking.com)

    360 points · HN #46458302

  12. 12

    Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups (smokingonabike.com)

    395 points · HN #46446366

  13. 13

    Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy (wiley.com)

    235 points · HN #46448998

  14. 14

    Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs (github.com/quickemu-project)

    217 points · HN #46430815

  15. 15

    50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player (lightcapai.medium.com)

    274 points · HN #46454944

  16. 16

    If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app (jgc.org)

    260 points · HN #46413256

  17. 17

    Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke (monash.edu)

    230 points · HN #46448894

  18. 18

    iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan (developer.apple.com)

    439 points · HN #46453950

  19. 19

    Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring (bustermq.sh)

    134 points · HN #46449812

  20. 20

    Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points (jeffgeerling.com)

    153 points · HN #46457027

  21. 21

    C-events, yet another event loop, simpler, smaller, faster, safer (zelang-dev.github.io)

    95 points · HN #46392095

  22. 22

    Flow5 released to open source (flow5.tech)

    152 points · HN #46451124

  23. 23

    Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them (sherwood.news)

    329 points · HN #46453582

  24. 24

    Pokémon Team Optimization (nchagnet.pages.dev)

    193 points · HN #46401763

  25. 25

    Pixar's True Story (computerhistory.org)

    102 points · HN #46450731

  26. 26

    Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes (tomshardware.com)

    284 points · HN #46455053

  27. 27

    Build a Deep Learning Library (quarto.pub)

    134 points · HN #46454587

  28. 28

    Build Software. Build Users (dima.day)

    71 points · HN #46409830

  29. 29

    Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder (theguardian.com)

    168 points · HN #46452937

  30. 30

    All my Deutschlandtickets gone: Fraud at an industrial scale [video] (ccc.de)

    132 points · HN #46411930