HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-23

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)

    1670 points · HN #47122715

  2. 02

    Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)

    1274 points · HN #47120899

  3. 03

    A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)

    312 points · HN #47124149

  4. 04

    Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)

    496 points · HN #47114530

  5. 05

    Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)

    326 points · HN #47123631

  6. 06

    Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)

    561 points · HN #47119530

  7. 07

    Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)

    422 points · HN #47075455

  8. 08

    UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (atariage.com)

    206 points · HN #47127986

  9. 09

    Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)

    573 points · HN #47119210

  10. 10

    My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)

    385 points · HN #47067031

  11. 11

    Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)

    398 points · HN #47119274

  12. 12

    0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)

    348 points · HN #47078112

  13. 13

    FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me (vladimir.varank.in)

    434 points · HN #47129361

  14. 14

    “Car Wash” test with 53 models (opper.ai)

    371 points · HN #47128138

  15. 15

    Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)

    552 points · HN #47127396

  16. 16

    Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)

    706 points · HN #47127081

  17. 17

    Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)

    384 points · HN #47125374

  18. 18

    ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)

    371 points · HN #47125349

  19. 19

    Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)

    181 points · HN #47123894

  20. 20

    Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)

    174 points · HN #47119871

  21. 21

    What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)

    189 points · HN #47125286

  22. 22

    Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) (github.com/vignesh07)

    151 points · HN #47128535

  23. 23

    femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/jeffbezanson)

    146 points · HN #47121539

  24. 24

    ‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020) (science.org)

    179 points · HN #47100612

  25. 25

    The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)

    248 points · HN #47117459

  26. 26

    Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)

    457 points · HN #47121029

  27. 27

    The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)

    267 points · HN #47122789

  28. 28

    Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)

    102 points · HN #47113401

  29. 29

    SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)

    93 points · HN #47120201

  30. 30

    The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)

    84 points · HN #47075716