HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-08

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Vouch (github.com/mitchellh)

    1077 points · HN #46930961

  2. 02

    Dave Farber has died (nanog.org)

    287 points · HN #46933401

  3. 03

    GitHub Agentic Workflows (github.github.io)

    302 points · HN #46934107

  4. 04

    Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

    334 points · HN #46937696

  5. 05

    Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars books (underhillgame.com)

    307 points · HN #46936237

  6. 06

    Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing (hofstede.it)

    205 points · HN #46934266

  7. 07

    Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory (github.com/localgpt-app)

    331 points · HN #46930391

  8. 08

    Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)

    175 points · HN #46937012

  9. 09

    OpenClaw is changing my life (reorx.com)

    340 points · HN #46931805

  10. 10

    The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (blog.svgames.pl)

    142 points · HN #46936828

  11. 11

    Beyond agentic coding (haskellforall.com)

    269 points · HN #46930565

  12. 12

    Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot (2019) (habr.com)

    140 points · HN #46934579

  13. 13

    Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler (github.com/apple-oss-distributions)

    181 points · HN #46938280

  14. 14

    A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)

    226 points · HN #46938241

  15. 15

    Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (latent.space)

    238 points · HN #46936920

  16. 16

    Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin (hyperallergic.com)

    196 points · HN #46932985

  17. 17

    Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version (github.com/momciloo)

    141 points · HN #46925811

  18. 18

    RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001) (ietf.org)

    168 points · HN #46934499

  19. 19

    Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 (mattst88.com)

    117 points · HN #46939187

  20. 20

    Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia (nih.gov)

    325 points · HN #46935991

  21. 21

    Why E cores make Apple silicon fast (eclecticlight.co)

    271 points · HN #46933365

  22. 22

    Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)

    212 points · HN #46938903

  23. 23

    I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (otterstack.com)

    342 points · HN #46935791

  24. 24

    DoNotNotify is now Open Source (donotnotify.com)

    418 points · HN #46932192

  25. 25

    Slop Terrifies Me (ezhik.jp)

    410 points · HN #46933067

  26. 26

    Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it (derekyan.com)

    208 points · HN #46888258

  27. 27

    Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 (github.com/joshuanwalker)

    93 points · HN #46932678

  28. 28

    Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox (github.com/jingkaihe)

    148 points · HN #46932343

  29. 29

    Bun v1.3.9 (bun.com)

    186 points · HN #46936595

  30. 30

    The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB (aosabook.org)

    89 points · HN #46861158