HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-23

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Time to talk about my writerdeck (veronicaexplains.net)

    517 points · HN #48250144

  2. 02

    On The <dl> (2021) (benmyers.dev)

    442 points · HN #48247325

  3. 03

    Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says (nytimes.com)

    1129 points · HN #48241890

  4. 04

    80386 microcode disassembled (reenigne.org)

    278 points · HN #48247004

  5. 05

    Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers (reuters.com)

    234 points · HN #48194645

  6. 06

    The Art of Money Getting (kk.org)

    409 points · HN #48247208

  7. 07

    My two-part desk setup (2025) (arslan.io)

    358 points · HN #48214311

  8. 08

    SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket (space.com)

    441 points · HN #48242959

  9. 09

    Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street (victoriaritvo.com)

    201 points · HN #48241335

  10. 10

    Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality (reclaimthenet.org)

    803 points · HN #48249747

  11. 11

    Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980 (righto.com)

    123 points · HN #48248954

  12. 12

    Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug (utoronto.ca)

    232 points · HN #48242278

  13. 13

    Making deep learning go brrrr from first principles (2022) (horace.io)

    199 points · HN #48246889

  14. 14

    -​-dangerously-skip-reading-code (olano.dev)

    200 points · HN #48246232

  15. 15

    sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library (spader.zone)

    225 points · HN #48207043

  16. 16

    Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby (github.com/amatsuda)

    185 points · HN #48245262

  17. 17

    .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types (andrewlock.net)

    237 points · HN #48234954

  18. 18

    PHP's Oddities (flowtwo.io)

    134 points · HN #48199314

  19. 19

    BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork (twitter.com/josefprusa)

    407 points · HN #48245862

  20. 20

    Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020) (extension.org)

    120 points · HN #48204985

  21. 21

    Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)

    95 points · HN #48206313

  22. 22

    Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers (euronews.com)

    284 points · HN #48248775

  23. 23

    Oura says it gets government demands for user data (weekinsecurity.com)

    296 points · HN #48247876

  24. 24

    FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack (pcmag.com)

    197 points · HN #48243293

  25. 25

    The quadratic sandwich (fedemagnani.github.io)

    147 points · HN #48206387

  26. 26

    Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025) (phys.org)

    103 points · HN #48206763

  27. 27

    New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire (scientificamerican.com)

    115 points · HN #48206543

  28. 28

    Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order (torrentfreak.com)

    225 points · HN #48245362

  29. 29

    Improving C# Memory Safety (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)

    166 points · HN #48225782

  30. 30

    Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son (theguardian.com)

    259 points · HN #48245571