HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-04

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com/ammaarreshi)

    690 points · HN #48788283

  2. 02

    The bottleneck might be the air in the room (mikebowler.ca)

    833 points · HN #48783117

  3. 03

    Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (wafer.ai)

    358 points · HN #48780417

  4. 04

    Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)

    374 points · HN #48780801

  5. 05

    Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)

    694 points · HN #48786781

  6. 06

    Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (annas-archive.gl)

    533 points · HN #48786838

  7. 07

    Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com/anthropics)

    314 points · HN #48785485

  8. 08

    Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)

    479 points · HN #48782435

  9. 09

    Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)

    514 points · HN #48784777

  10. 10

    GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)

    372 points · HN #48789428

  11. 11

    What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) (wozniak.ca)

    275 points · HN #48742175

  12. 12

    New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview (epoch.ai)

    156 points · HN #48780056

  13. 13

    Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained (databricks.com)

    182 points · HN #48745855

  14. 14

    Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)

    232 points · HN #48786638

  15. 15

    “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky (eso.org)

    190 points · HN #48787042

  16. 16

    Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era (mirtitles.org)

    183 points · HN #48739018

  17. 17

    Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (quantamagazine.org)

    213 points · HN #48783948

  18. 18

    Better Models: Worse Tools (pocoo.org)

    232 points · HN #48788599

  19. 19

    MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)

    146 points · HN #48781688

  20. 20

    The Vespa at 80 (cbc.ca)

    172 points · HN #48746327

  21. 21

    Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (ucr.edu)

    152 points · HN #48779723

  22. 22

    Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)

    262 points · HN #48781196

  23. 23

    Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)

    154 points · HN #48782219

  24. 24

    Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com/maximqaxd)

    115 points · HN #48785840

  25. 25

    Agentic coding notes (danluu.com)

    179 points · HN #48782671

  26. 26

    Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)

    126 points · HN #48781597

  27. 27

    Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web (blog.archive.org)

    125 points · HN #48739682

  28. 28

    Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language (freepressjournal.in)

    128 points · HN #48739446

  29. 29

    Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches (jefftk.com)

    154 points · HN #48787329

  30. 30

    Drone Physics (iahmed.me)

    138 points · HN #48738395