HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-27

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace (huggingface.co)

    1382 points · HN #49065752

  2. 02

    Our position on open-weights models (anthropic.com)

    1180 points · HN #49076057

  3. 03

    PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works (nikolays.github.io)

    930 points · HN #49063754

  4. 04

    Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (theconsensus.dev)

    261 points · HN #49045474

  5. 05

    US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search (techspot.com)

    1340 points · HN #49063022

  6. 06

    French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time (france24.com)

    462 points · HN #49060495

  7. 07

    Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (blackhole.plav.in)

    477 points · HN #49021270

  8. 08

    We have proof automation now (imperialviolet.org)

    232 points · HN #49062291

  9. 09

    Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary (github.com/vercel-labs)

    287 points · HN #49063175

  10. 10

    Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023) (misago-project.org)

    254 points · HN #49067301

  11. 11

    How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going? (lockwood.dev)

    496 points · HN #49067854

  12. 12

    Paged Out #9 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)

    288 points · HN #49070138

  13. 13

    Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)

    167 points · HN #49073942

  14. 14

    The computer that helped win World War II (ieee.org)

    208 points · HN #49012309

  15. 15

    Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages (gpuopen.com)

    123 points · HN #49021007

  16. 16

    AI companies are shredding rare books (twitter.com/hedgiemarkets)

    801 points · HN #49068738

  17. 17

    Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol (acs.org)

    179 points · HN #49020993

  18. 18

    Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines (github.com/libsm64)

    196 points · HN #49067352

  19. 19

    Securing Services with Rootless Containers (coderspirit.xyz)

    115 points · HN #49021024

  20. 20

    Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (techdirt.com)

    341 points · HN #49073513

  21. 21

    Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals (rise-reforming.com)

    85 points · HN #49074817

  22. 22

    DConf 2026 in London (dconf.org)

    126 points · HN #49076840

  23. 23

    I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated (arstechnica.com)

    181 points · HN #49020219

  24. 24

    VLC for Unity now supported on Linux (videolan.org)

    169 points · HN #49066928

  25. 25

    A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)

    408 points · HN #49076116

  26. 26

    How real are real numbers? (2004) (arxiv.org)

    96 points · HN #49071190

  27. 27

    Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)

    163 points · HN #49070756

  28. 28

    Modern email can be built from borrowed parts (andros.dev)

    198 points · HN #49066639

  29. 29

    The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (1939) [pdf] (lsu.edu)

    133 points · HN #49020842

  30. 30

    Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025) (mymodernmet.com)

    260 points · HN #49009706