HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-22

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample (chatgpt.com)

    1128 points · HN #49010345

  2. 02

    John C. Dvorak has died (twitter.com/na_announce)

    930 points · HN #49012070

  3. 03

    Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (bento.page)

    1033 points · HN #49008211

  4. 04

    The startup's Postgres survival guide (hatchet.run)

    523 points · HN #49005787

  5. 05

    GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization (github.com/marcelroed)

    620 points · HN #49010167

  6. 06

    Everyone should know SIMD (mitchellh.com)

    672 points · HN #49010648

  7. 07

    Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (dylancastillo.co)

    686 points · HN #49010129

  8. 08

    Making (beej.us)

    442 points · HN #49008440

  9. 09

    Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude (apnews.com)

    568 points · HN #48996652

  10. 10

    So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (cole-k.com)

    610 points · HN #49005747

  11. 11

    Malleable computing, Emacs, and you (yummymelon.com)

    159 points · HN #49013538

  12. 12

    Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth (ciphertalk.substack.com)

    279 points · HN #48917135

  13. 13

    Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns (fiddery.com)

    381 points · HN #49005973

  14. 14

    Back to Kagi (melashri.net)

    332 points · HN #49006195

  15. 15

    Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere (textualize.io)

    196 points · HN #49007626

  16. 16

    LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps (krebsonsecurity.com)

    468 points · HN #49000864

  17. 17

    Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong (github.com/cactus-compute)

    191 points · HN #49010782

  18. 18

    Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon (morethanmoore.substack.com)

    248 points · HN #48961698

  19. 19

    Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years (cnn.com)

    153 points · HN #49014007

  20. 20

    It's a shame what's happened to radio (jimgrey.net)

    230 points · HN #48999825

  21. 21

    Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored (ai.google.dev)

    136 points · HN #48998606

  22. 22

    OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future (overpaid.lol)

    685 points · HN #49004663

  23. 23

    Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules (github.com/chrislgarry)

    191 points · HN #49002166

  24. 24

    Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain (twitter.com/nikitabier)

    577 points · HN #49007374

  25. 25

    Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015) (hintjens.com)

    230 points · HN #49000600

  26. 26

    Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people (late.sh)

    333 points · HN #49001127

  27. 27

    Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1 (hashcloak.com)

    244 points · HN #48969200

  28. 28

    Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app (unlayer.com)

    56 points · HN #49008901

  29. 29

    I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation (citizendot.github.io)

    482 points · HN #49013036

  30. 30

    ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space (screenwall.app)

    146 points · HN #48945804