HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-19

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Qwen 3.8 (twitter.com/alibaba_qwen)

    961 points · HN #48966120

  2. 02

    Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

    2935 points · HN #48968606

  3. 03

    Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now (simonwillison.net)

    608 points · HN #48966569

  4. 04

    What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard (chipweinberger.com)

    552 points · HN #48966713

  5. 05

    Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3 (minecraft.net)

    352 points · HN #48967256

  6. 06

    Transcribe.cpp (cjpais.com)

    773 points · HN #48963879

  7. 07

    NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings (petapixel.com)

    591 points · HN #48962983

  8. 08

    I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned (andros.dev)

    242 points · HN #48966984

  9. 09

    Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years (bbc.com)

    183 points · HN #48968063

  10. 10

    Better and Cheaper Than IPTV (github.com/stupside)

    348 points · HN #48964015

  11. 11

    Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers (scientificamerican.com)

    232 points · HN #48895861

  12. 12

    OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k (github.com/openai)

    371 points · HN #48965850

  13. 13

    Blender 5.2 LTS (blender.org)

    419 points · HN #48911021

  14. 14

    C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8) (retrogamecoders.com)

    88 points · HN #48968949

  15. 15

    Classic Amiga titles, free to download (downer.tech)

    180 points · HN #48962838

  16. 16

    Cagire: Live Coding in Forth (raphaelforment.fr)

    111 points · HN #48860719

  17. 17

    I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens (quesma.com)

    181 points · HN #48967355

  18. 18

    AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making (mataroa.blog)

    469 points · HN #48964185

  19. 19

    HMD Touch 4G (hmd.com)

    91 points · HN #48969983

  20. 20

    HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router (justsomebody.dev)

    159 points · HN #48970772

  21. 21

    AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy (thenextweb.com)

    364 points · HN #48971738

  22. 22

    Dupes took over the world (vox.com)

    118 points · HN #48908433

  23. 23

    The death and rebirth of my home server (hootr.club)

    145 points · HN #48966769

  24. 24

    Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand (twitter.com/kimi_moonshot)

    284 points · HN #48969291

  25. 25

    UnifiedIR for Julia (github.com/julialang)

    103 points · HN #48962600

  26. 26

    A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software (marciot.com)

    84 points · HN #48877124

  27. 27

    A new Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows (raymii.org)

    84 points · HN #48971566

  28. 28

    Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves (chipsandcheese.com)

    66 points · HN #48965161

  29. 29

    The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired (phoronix.com)

    225 points · HN #48969635

  30. 30

    Making Software: How to make a font (makingsoftware.com)

    119 points · HN #48904269