DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-07-23
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)
- 02
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)
- 03
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)
- 04
OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)
- 05
Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
- 06
What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)
- 07
Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)
- 08
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop (resobscura.substack.com)
- 09
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)
- 10
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)
- 11
The Beam Engine (glinscott.github.io)
- 12
Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com/humanlayer)
- 13
Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)
- 14
The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)
- 15
Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com/palmier-io)
- 16
Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)
- 17
Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)
- 18
Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com/onecli)
- 19
A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements (uchicago.edu)
- 20
Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents
- 21
Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)
- 22
Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)
- 23
Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)
- 24
Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)
- 25
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects (codeberg.org/codeberg)
- 26
git's –end-of-options Flag (nesbitt.io)
- 27
Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com/izeigerman)
- 28
Making ASCII Art in Vim (alexyang.dev)
- 29
Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot (jointhefreeworld.org)
- 30
Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds (wuemeli.com)