HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-06-20

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (neuviemeporte.github.io)

    284 points · HN #48609766

  2. 02

    SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)

    293 points · HN #48610827

  3. 03

    UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (lispm.net)

    230 points · HN #48610853

  4. 04

    CSSQuake (cssquake.com)

    548 points · HN #48608223

  5. 05

    Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil (cnn.com)

    195 points · HN #48612502

  6. 06

    Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You (moultano.wordpress.com)

    495 points · HN #48606140

  7. 07

    GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 (arrowtsx.dev)

    585 points · HN #48600167

  8. 08

    Can you see three trees? (not-ship.com)

    323 points · HN #48582374

  9. 09

    I Stored a Website in a Favicon (timwehrle.de)

    313 points · HN #48606619

  10. 10

    Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (cloudflare.com)

    249 points · HN #48608394

  11. 11

    Surprising economics of load-balanced systems (brooker.co.za)

    160 points · HN #48602918

  12. 12

    Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches (phoronix.com)

    300 points · HN #48612943

  13. 13

    Alice is impatient (brooker.co.za)

    148 points · HN #48612740

  14. 14

    The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)

    409 points · HN #48611411

  15. 15

    Egyptian Fractions (2006) (plover.com)

    113 points · HN #48548612

  16. 16

    Data Compression Explained (2012) (mattmahoney.net)

    193 points · HN #48562662

  17. 17

    A Perceptron in Age of Empires II (adewynter.github.io)

    128 points · HN #48582180

  18. 18

    The rise of South Korea’s weapons business (politico.com)

    158 points · HN #48608515

  19. 19

    AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks (lwn.net)

    134 points · HN #48600593

  20. 20

    The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory (ibm.com)

    128 points · HN #48568652

  21. 21

    Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023) (nochan.net)

    262 points · HN #48602817

  22. 22

    PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services (clickhouse.com)

    113 points · HN #48611942

  23. 23

    Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore (github.com/oven-sh)

    148 points · HN #48610841

  24. 24

    Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (extremetech.com)

    322 points · HN #48609343

  25. 25

    Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering (space.com)

    186 points · HN #48606271

  26. 26

    Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) (github.com/overflowy)

    155 points · HN #48611513

  27. 27

    Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem (2017) (digitalorientalist.com)

    76 points · HN #48563047

  28. 28

    Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks (kentbeck.com)

    229 points · HN #48604851

  29. 29

    Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server (bootimus.com)

    125 points · HN #48608255

  30. 30

    LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)

    213 points · HN #48605355