HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-09

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer (github.com/justvugg)

    937 points · HN #48842459

  2. 02

    Show HN: 18 Words (18words.com)

    1160 points · HN #48845049

  3. 03

    EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 (patrick-breyer.de)

    1636 points · HN #48843923

  4. 04

    John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement (apnews.com)

    1397 points · HN #48838876

  5. 05

    GPT-5.6 (openai.com)

    1561 points · HN #48849066

  6. 06

    Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests (github.com/malisper)

    832 points · HN #48841676

  7. 07

    Hy3 (tencent.com)

    561 points · HN #48847552

  8. 08

    The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war (westpoint.edu)

    470 points · HN #48845442

  9. 09

    No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026 (iers.org)

    311 points · HN #48846281

  10. 10

    Muse Spark 1.1 (meta.com)

    413 points · HN #48846184

  11. 11

    Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig (alexalejandre.com)

    405 points · HN #48849292

  12. 12

    A road to Lisp: Why Lisp (scotto.me)

    299 points · HN #48845209

  13. 13

    Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip (theregister.com)

    333 points · HN #48778956

  14. 14

    A possible future for Damn Interesting (damninteresting.com)

    318 points · HN #48847511

  15. 15

    Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting (nahla.dev)

    203 points · HN #48809574

  16. 16

    Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees (connectsci.au)

    307 points · HN #48841259

  17. 17

    Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone (wired.com)

    393 points · HN #48803004

  18. 18

    Why American ambulance rides are so expensive (davidoks.blog)

    337 points · HN #48853091

  19. 19

    Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line (yamanote.fun)

    238 points · HN #48816987

  20. 20

    New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony (bbc.com)

    167 points · HN #48836324

  21. 21

    TLS certificates for internal services done right (tuxnet.dev)

    186 points · HN #48846995

  22. 22

    Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website (context.dev)

    119 points · HN #48847562

  23. 23

    Opinionated and easy Pi.dev configuration (lazypi.org)

    151 points · HN #48847407

  24. 24

    Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives (howtogeek.com)

    367 points · HN #48842611

  25. 25

    SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers (mitpress.mit.edu)

    114 points · HN #48846332

  26. 26

    Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI (nexte.st)

    175 points · HN #48800596

  27. 27

    Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete (seriot.ch)

    131 points · HN #48829797

  28. 28

    My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite (andrewkelley.me)

    817 points · HN #48843352

  29. 29

    GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper (toot-books.com)

    225 points · HN #48850414

  30. 30

    Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase (databricks.com)

    161 points · HN #48837696