HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-02-28

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    We Will Not Be Divided (notdivided.org)

    2645 points · HN #47188473

  2. 02

    Obsidian Sync now has a headless client (help.obsidian.md)

    587 points · HN #47197267

  3. 03

    The happiest I've ever been (ben-mini.com)

    662 points · HN #47161759

  4. 04

    OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network (twitter.com/sama)

    1407 points · HN #47189650

  5. 05

    The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran (cnn.com)

    1207 points · HN #47191232

  6. 06

    Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust (github.com/ad-si)

    350 points · HN #47155526

  7. 07

    Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (anthropic.com)

    1170 points · HN #47188697

  8. 08

    Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access (github.com/google-gemini)

    254 points · HN #47195371

  9. 09

    The whole thing was a scam (garymarcus.substack.com)

    993 points · HN #47197505

  10. 10

    Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers (venturebeat.com)

    461 points · HN #47199781

  11. 11

    Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages (nowigetit.us)

    305 points · HN #47195123

  12. 12

    The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) (acm.org)

    362 points · HN #47200904

  13. 13

    Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) (gist.github.com)

    211 points · HN #47197595

  14. 14

    The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (ivanturkovic.com)

    324 points · HN #47147597

  15. 15

    Our Agreement with the Department of War (openai.com)

    374 points · HN #47199948

  16. 16

    Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts (robservatory.com)

    318 points · HN #47198977

  17. 17

    New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind? (quantamagazine.org)

    142 points · HN #47154637

  18. 18

    How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription? (help.openai.com)

    1073 points · HN #47190997

  19. 19

    Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs (unsloth.ai)

    237 points · HN #47192505

  20. 20

    Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years (hrt.hr)

    523 points · HN #47189535

  21. 21

    Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction (thenation.com)

    92 points · HN #47178051

  22. 22

    747s and coding agents (carlkolon.com)

    176 points · HN #47182986

  23. 23

    Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers (github.com/anadim)

    248 points · HN #47170030

  24. 24

    Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (timcappalli.me)

    280 points · HN #47189749

  25. 25

    Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule (npr.org)

    473 points · HN #47200879

  26. 26

    Ghosts'n Goblins – “Worse danger is ahead” (superchartisland.com)

    83 points · HN #47155235

  27. 27

    The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks (popsci.com)

    88 points · HN #47152835

  28. 28

    Building a Minimal Transformer for 10-digit Addition (alexlitzenberger.com)

    73 points · HN #47200828

  29. 29

    Qt45: A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself (science.org)

    117 points · HN #47187649

  30. 30

    From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion (lighthousesoftware.co.uk)

    154 points · HN #47163167