HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-13

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (xda-developers.com)

    980 points · HN #48087887

  2. 02

    Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) (fredchan.org)

    618 points · HN #48122635

  3. 03

    I moved my digital stack to Europe (monokai.com)

    1040 points · HN #48120629

  4. 04

    Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers (github.com/fulu-foundation)

    671 points · HN #48115127

  5. 05

    A History of IDEs at Google (le-brun.eu)

    473 points · HN #48073979

  6. 06

    The Emacsification of Software (sockpuppet.org)

    465 points · HN #48118727

  7. 07

    Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 (python.org)

    265 points · HN #48077924

  8. 08

    Leaving GitHub for Forgejo (jorijn.com)

    634 points · HN #48121266

  9. 09

    The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization (avkcode.github.io)

    241 points · HN #48121929

  10. 10

    MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble (jdhodges.com)

    337 points · HN #48125617

  11. 11

    Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC (github.com/nooga)

    213 points · HN #48080755

  12. 12

    Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent (dailyprincetonian.com)

    391 points · HN #48126848

  13. 13

    Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book (ardoedo.it)

    227 points · HN #48096760

  14. 14

    New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater (sciencedaily.com)

    315 points · HN #48089921

  15. 15

    Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter (dmitry.gr)

    238 points · HN #48091812

  16. 16

    Scrcpy v4.0 (github.com/genymobile)

    373 points · HN #48114356

  17. 17

    Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine (savethearchive.com)

    435 points · HN #48115807

  18. 18

    Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics (arxiv.org)

    298 points · HN #48117810

  19. 19

    My graduation cap runs Rust (ericswpark.com)

    214 points · HN #48116207

  20. 20

    S-100 Virtual Workbench (grantmestrength.github.io)

    135 points · HN #48123546

  21. 21

    An idiot’s guide to lead optimisation for proteins (magnusross.github.io)

    176 points · HN #48093578

  22. 22

    When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug (cloudflare.com)

    163 points · HN #48116064

  23. 23

    Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined (dynomight.net)

    118 points · HN #48109772

  24. 24

    Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s (github.com/tracewayapp)

    174 points · HN #48091898

  25. 25

    How can Apple deal with the memory shortage? (asymco.com)

    136 points · HN #48094986

  26. 26

    Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration (tryardent.com)

    99 points · HN #48124436

  27. 27

    The vi family (ath0.com)

    279 points · HN #48033483

  28. 28

    Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams (github.com/xtellect)

    108 points · HN #48082586

  29. 29

    Starship V3 (spacex.com)

    326 points · HN #48116781

  30. 30

    Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors (kotaku.com)

    400 points · HN #48123198