HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-07

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) (rhodesmill.org)

    655 points · HN #46890814

  2. 02

    Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly (spritely.institute)

    235 points · HN #46923254

  3. 03

    Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI (github.com/pydantic)

    323 points · HN #46918254

  4. 04

    SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes (2023) (xorvoid.com)

    381 points · HN #46925741

  5. 05

    Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself (jesperordrup.github.io)

    433 points · HN #46922049

  6. 06

    The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else (washingtonpost.com)

    405 points · HN #46922969

  7. 07

    Software factories and the agentic moment (strongdm.ai)

    304 points · HN #46924426

  8. 08

    Stories from 25 Years of Software Development (susam.net)

    252 points · HN #46924264

  9. 09

    Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production (arcadeblogger.com)

    164 points · HN #46868343

  10. 10

    France's homegrown open source online office suite (github.com/suitenumerique)

    818 points · HN #46923736

  11. 11

    Speed up responses with fast mode (claude.com)

    223 points · HN #46926043

  12. 12

    We mourn our craft (nolanlawson.com)

    824 points · HN #46926245

  13. 13

    First Proof (arxiv.org)

    186 points · HN #46924591

  14. 14

    Where did all the starships go? (datawrapper.de)

    226 points · HN #46870694

  15. 15

    Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney (spillhistorie.no)

    123 points · HN #46924790

  16. 16

    Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions (hpcwire.com)

    100 points · HN #46926576

  17. 17

    I write games in C (yes, C) (2016) (jonathanwhiting.com)

    279 points · HN #46925808

  18. 18

    Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes (floedb.ai)

    173 points · HN #46898473

  19. 19

    LLMs as the new high level language (federicopereiro.com)

    177 points · HN #46868928

  20. 20

    Coding agents have replaced every framework I used (alaindichiappari.dev)

    375 points · HN #46923543

  21. 21

    Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (rlhfbook.com)

    133 points · HN #46923463

  22. 22

    Dark Alley Mathematics (szczepan.org)

    130 points · HN #46857453

  23. 23

    Selection rather than prediction (voratiq.com)

    43 points · HN #46878942

  24. 24

    Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo (si.edu)

    79 points · HN #46920773

  25. 25

    PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok (martypc.blogspot.com)

    91 points · HN #46854386

  26. 26

    Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression) (bitsnbites.eu)

    59 points · HN #46884412

  27. 27

    Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server (googleblog.com)

    95 points · HN #46919824

  28. 28

    FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs (fda.gov)

    144 points · HN #46928810

  29. 29

    Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? (windowscentral.com)

    187 points · HN #46927098

  30. 30

    A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System (rs-online.com)

    72 points · HN #46873322