HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-17

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic.com)

    1346 points · HN #47050488

  2. 02

    GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)

    1182 points · HN #47045612

  3. 03

    Gentoo on Codeberg (gentoo.org)

    436 points · HN #47050067

  4. 04

    Using go fix to modernize Go code (go.dev)

    432 points · HN #47049479

  5. 05

    Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway (asteroidos.org)

    470 points · HN #47051852

  6. 06

    BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (github.com/zaneham)

    464 points · HN #47052941

  7. 07

    Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

    1148 points · HN #47049824

  8. 08

    HackMyClaw (hackmyclaw.com)

    369 points · HN #47049573

  9. 09

    Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)

    447 points · HN #47040524

  10. 10

    So you want to build a tunnel (practical.engineering)

    272 points · HN #47049718

  11. 11

    Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (bbc.com)

    571 points · HN #47042396

  12. 12

    Async/Await on the GPU (vectorware.com)

    228 points · HN #47049628

  13. 13

    Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp (berksoft.ca)

    252 points · HN #47048733

  14. 14

    Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning (arthurcnops.blog)

    522 points · HN #47045804

  15. 15

    I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D (edbn.me)

    270 points · HN #47048004

  16. 16

    Four Column ASCII (2017) (garbagecollected.org)

    338 points · HN #47022270

  17. 17

    Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (openculture.com)

    85 points · HN #47000708

  18. 18

    DBASE on the Kaypro II (stonetools.ghost.io)

    99 points · HN #47012486

  19. 19

    A deep dive into Apple's .car file format (dbg.re)

    165 points · HN #47014002

  20. 20

    Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI (codemade.net)

    114 points · HN #47041973

  21. 21

    Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (quantamagazine.org)

    107 points · HN #47007117

  22. 22

    Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)

    195 points · HN #47042895

  23. 23

    Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification (kotaku.com)

    267 points · HN #47050376

  24. 24

    Assistant to the Regional Manager (paulbloom.net)

    116 points · HN #47002926

  25. 25

    Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans (electrek.co)

    462 points · HN #47051546

  26. 26

    Rendering the Visible Spectrum (brandonli.net)

    147 points · HN #47012895

  27. 27

    Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser (glitchycam.com)

    173 points · HN #47033954

  28. 28

    Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? (arxiv.org)

    232 points · HN #47034087

  29. 29

    I swear the UFO is coming any minute (experimental-history.com)

    192 points · HN #47054134

  30. 30

    AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (jeffgeerling.com)

    422 points · HN #47042136