HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-06-16

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)

    1596 points · HN #48555993

  2. 02

    SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (reuters.com)

    1151 points · HN #48553224

  3. 03

    GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 (grapheneos.org)

    1021 points · HN #48561654

  4. 04

    Mechanical Watch (2022) (ciechanow.ski)

    745 points · HN #48553550

  5. 05

    TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP (mareksuppa.com)

    548 points · HN #48558018

  6. 06

    I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

    938 points · HN #48550779

  7. 07

    Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity (therepublicofletters.substack.com)

    560 points · HN #48557079

  8. 08

    Stop Using JWTs (gist.github.com)

    492 points · HN #48558147

  9. 09

    Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness (theverge.com)

    902 points · HN #48557530

  10. 10

    But yak shaving is fun (2019) (parksb.github.io)

    307 points · HN #48555838

  11. 11

    GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands (tno.nl)

    252 points · HN #48559188

  12. 12

    The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

    504 points · HN #48550693

  13. 13

    Is Meta destroying its engineering organization? (pragmaticengineer.com)

    668 points · HN #48558045

  14. 14

    Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time (mll.sh)

    365 points · HN #48563394

  15. 15

    10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module (gilesthomas.com)

    195 points · HN #48559083

  16. 16

    Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence (qwen.ai)

    213 points · HN #48554814

  17. 17

    Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless (arseniyshestakov.com)

    529 points · HN #48559935

  18. 18

    Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers (theregister.com)

    613 points · HN #48552687

  19. 19

    Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 (tck.mn)

    310 points · HN #48552844

  20. 20

    I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video] (youtube.com)

    201 points · HN #48479957

  21. 21

    Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art (heikkilotvonen.com)

    162 points · HN #48550569

  22. 22

    Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields (sighack.com)

    191 points · HN #48522316

  23. 23

    Formal Methods and the Future of Programming (janestreet.com)

    107 points · HN #48497067

  24. 24

    Cohere's First Model for Developers (cohere.com)

    146 points · HN #48489934

  25. 25

    An interview with an Apple emoji designer (shadycharacters.co.uk)

    124 points · HN #48519723

  26. 26

    Making ast.walk 220x Faster (reflex.dev)

    112 points · HN #48557768

  27. 27

    SubQ 1.1 Small (subq.ai)

    132 points · HN #48556163

  28. 28

    Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS (2024) (filippo.io)

    68 points · HN #48561402

  29. 29

    Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion (economist.com)

    191 points · HN #48549628

  30. 30

    U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears (timescolonist.com)

    463 points · HN #48560847