DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-07-12
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring (techcrunch.com)
- 02
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)
- 03
How to read more books (scotto.me)
- 04
Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)
- 05
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
- 06
Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)
- 07
LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)
- 08
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)
- 09
So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) (susanrigetti.com)
- 10
How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)
- 11
What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis (gist.github.com)
- 12
Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (terrytao.wordpress.com)
- 13
Why write code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)
- 14
I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)
- 15
Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks (kode.diy)
- 16
I Learned to Read Again (magazinenongrata.com)
- 17
Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts (arxiv.org)
- 18
An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)
- 19
Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)
- 20
I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) (triapul.cz)
- 21
Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)
- 22
Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)
- 23
How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (cancerworld.net)
- 24
Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)
- 25
Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout (visitfaroeislands.com)
- 26
Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com/cosmtrek)
- 27
Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (acm.org)
- 28
A dock that wakes up reliably (fabiensanglard.net)
- 29
Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)
- 30
Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises (buf.build)