HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-06-29

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (quesma.com)

    1192 points · HN #48721903

  2. 02

    .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting (onmy.cloud)

    676 points · HN #48724230

  3. 03

    Rocketlab acquires Iridium (rocketlabcorp.com)

    473 points · HN #48719485

  4. 04

    Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech (nonogra.ph)

    1020 points · HN #48714529

  5. 05

    US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections (theguardian.com)

    613 points · HN #48720924

  6. 06

    Free the Icons (rogueamoeba.com)

    690 points · HN #48698908

  7. 07

    HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 (danunparsed.com)

    1032 points · HN #48713832

  8. 08

    Historical memory prices 1960-2026 (stanford.edu)

    407 points · HN #48710092

  9. 09

    Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding (github.com/deepreinforce-ai)

    262 points · HN #48722052

  10. 10

    What happens when you run a CUDA kernel? (fergusfinn.com)

    294 points · HN #48718863

  11. 11

    Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown (elpais.com)

    557 points · HN #48708991

  12. 12

    A native graphical shell for SSH (probablymarcus.com)

    370 points · HN #48720758

  13. 13

    Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it (pragmaticengineer.com)

    920 points · HN #48716902

  14. 14

    WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter (humphri.es)

    227 points · HN #48720190

  15. 15

    Dark Sky Lighting (savingourstars.org)

    244 points · HN #48675653

  16. 16

    Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance (arxiv.org)

    234 points · HN #48702825

  17. 17

    Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing (sedaily.com)

    428 points · HN #48718102

  18. 18

    Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU (cpushack.com)

    186 points · HN #48717287

  19. 19

    Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it (lucassifoni.info)

    153 points · HN #48683475

  20. 20

    Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024) (arxiv.org)

    123 points · HN #48712420

  21. 21

    European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage (torrentfreak.com)

    418 points · HN #48721072

  22. 22

    The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party (det.social)

    695 points · HN #48717469

  23. 23

    South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots (arstechnica.com)

    260 points · HN #48726102

  24. 24

    Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses (twitter.com/i)

    357 points · HN #48719027

  25. 25

    Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF) (schamper.dev)

    163 points · HN #48708644

  26. 26

    Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship (thomasdullien.github.io)

    247 points · HN #48674875

  27. 27

    Working With AI: A concrete example (htmx.org)

    197 points · HN #48720064

  28. 28

    NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them (edera.dev)

    140 points · HN #48662018

  29. 29

    Deciphering basmala (plover.com)

    85 points · HN #48657131

  30. 30

    Rebuilding the Computer Room (alexwlchan.net)

    124 points · HN #48717905