HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-16

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence (kimi.com)

    2107 points · HN #48935342

  2. 02

    Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source (opensource.microsoft.com)

    814 points · HN #48936426

  3. 03

    Decoy Font (mixfont.com)

    725 points · HN #48936584

  4. 04

    The lost joy of music piracy (pigeonsandplanes.com)

    853 points · HN #48930454

  5. 05

    NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook (blog.google)

    371 points · HN #48936451

  6. 06

    OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe (oneplus.com)

    600 points · HN #48932539

  7. 07

    Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015) (immersivemath.com)

    295 points · HN #48935951

  8. 08

    Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them (techdirt.com)

    707 points · HN #48933419

  9. 09

    Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning (lyc8503.net)

    248 points · HN #48936880

  10. 10

    How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going (rtfeldman.com)

    531 points · HN #48933149

  11. 11

    $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol (tryai.dev)

    396 points · HN #48939524

  12. 12

    LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models (lmstudio.ai)

    331 points · HN #48939662

  13. 13

    How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM (zhinit.dev)

    165 points · HN #48935687

  14. 14

    Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone (science.org)

    151 points · HN #48939742

  15. 15

    1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored (openculture.com)

    258 points · HN #48929945

  16. 16

    The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway (theocharis.dev)

    311 points · HN #48933310

  17. 17

    The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning (github.com/alxndrtl)

    213 points · HN #48941104

  18. 18

    Mathematics of Data Science (arxiv.org)

    222 points · HN #48939896

  19. 19

    Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode (spaceweather.gov)

    178 points · HN #48934286

  20. 20

    Command Line Interface Guidelines (clig.dev)

    171 points · HN #48881064

  21. 21

    CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026 (consequence.net)

    194 points · HN #48937398

  22. 22

    'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin (yale.edu)

    121 points · HN #48940833

  23. 23

    Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't (goughlui.com)

    236 points · HN #48883036

  24. 24

    Bluesky Trademarks ATProto (atproto.com)

    201 points · HN #48929351

  25. 25

    If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe (madcampos.dev)

    248 points · HN #48930136

  26. 26

    Ente – Opening Our Books (ente.com)

    289 points · HN #48932697

  27. 27

    Job queues are deceptively tricky (typesanitizer.com)

    143 points · HN #48903733

  28. 28

    LLM Networking with MikroTik (greg.technology)

    105 points · HN #48927915

  29. 29

    I also filed the corners off my MacBook (brt.fyi)

    316 points · HN #48911803

  30. 30

    Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20 (github.com/samyeyo)

    143 points · HN #48871547