HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-18

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent (videocardz.com)

    1228 points · HN #48956688

  2. 02

    Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb (github.com/moonshine-ai)

    570 points · HN #48911793

  3. 03

    GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (reddit.com)

    601 points · HN #48957779

  4. 04

    Regressive JPEGs (maurycyz.com)

    727 points · HN #48954851

  5. 05

    The Kimi K3 Moment (bochinski.dev)

    636 points · HN #48960218

  6. 06

    Codex Resets (codex-resets.com)

    312 points · HN #48963465

  7. 07

    Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help? (charlesazam.com)

    257 points · HN #48956879

  8. 08

    Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day (neatnik.net)

    258 points · HN #48962758

  9. 09

    If You Build It, They Will Come (benlandautaylor.com)

    474 points · HN #48959090

  10. 10

    TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years (github.com/badchemical)

    237 points · HN #48952565

  11. 11

    Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? (amateurphotographer.com)

    234 points · HN #48916044

  12. 12

    What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph (data.stackexchange.com)

    483 points · HN #48956949

  13. 13

    Gleam Is Now on Tangled (tangled.org)

    249 points · HN #48959143

  14. 14

    Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux (parksb.github.io)

    230 points · HN #48907063

  15. 15

    Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide (ykdojo.github.io)

    251 points · HN #48959392

  16. 16

    Elixir-lang.org has a new design (elixir-lang.org)

    254 points · HN #48959042

  17. 17

    Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds (acm.org)

    295 points · HN #48960155

  18. 18

    Lego building instructions through time (lego.com)

    158 points · HN #48950518

  19. 19

    I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp (mssv.net)

    174 points · HN #48892021

  20. 20

    Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System (prathosh.in)

    212 points · HN #48896149

  21. 21

    Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser (q3edit.com)

    106 points · HN #48958854

  22. 22

    I started a “dirt notebook” (pinewind.bearblog.dev)

    122 points · HN #48954149

  23. 23

    A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game (nytimes.com)

    98 points · HN #48895763

  24. 24

    The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal (negroniventurestudios.com)

    183 points · HN #48956231

  25. 25

    Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator (stenchill.com)

    83 points · HN #48953981

  26. 26

    Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind (deepmind.google)

    83 points · HN #48959297

  27. 27

    Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home (lcamtuf.substack.com)

    85 points · HN #48951756

  28. 28

    EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application (europa.eu)

    316 points · HN #48958269

  29. 29

    Qubes OS Security in the Public Record (arxiv.org)

    92 points · HN #48956307

  30. 30

    An Update on Igalia's Layer Based SVG Engine in WebKit (Reducing Layer Overhead) (igalia.com)

    73 points · HN #48906171