HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-28

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Substack writers, you need a website (elizabethtai.com)

    646 points · HN #49086788

  2. 02

    New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study (lji.org)

    662 points · HN #49083314

  3. 03

    7.1 Earthquake in Japan (jma.go.jp)

    819 points · HN #49080664

  4. 04

    Codex Security (github.com/openai)

    598 points · HN #49089755

  5. 05

    Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes (sebastianraschka.com)

    507 points · HN #49085698

  6. 06

    Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' (slow-journalism.com)

    337 points · HN #49085731

  7. 07

    Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 (sbcl.org)

    277 points · HN #49086971

  8. 08

    Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals (mlugg.co.uk)

    274 points · HN #49085666

  9. 09

    How to survive boiling water (taxa.substack.com)

    498 points · HN #49036068

  10. 10

    Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (mac-classic.com)

    304 points · HN #49089814

  11. 11

    Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench (github.com/humanlayer)

    405 points · HN #49076391

  12. 12

    Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025) (arxiv.org)

    306 points · HN #49082022

  13. 13

    The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade (apple.com)

    211 points · HN #49087306

  14. 14

    A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review (fermisense.com)

    342 points · HN #49078454

  15. 15

    Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library (acm.org)

    190 points · HN #49084987

  16. 16

    Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude (anthropic.com)

    232 points · HN #49087091

  17. 17

    Vehicle Motion Cues (support.apple.com)

    208 points · HN #49077999

  18. 18

    Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly (unawatch.com)

    274 points · HN #49084813

  19. 19

    Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification (europa.eu)

    727 points · HN #49084938

  20. 20

    Interview with Boris Cherny [video] (youtube.com)

    74 points · HN #49077040

  21. 21

    Using an open model feels surprisingly good (matthewsaltz.com)

    326 points · HN #49078583

  22. 22

    Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise (nypost.com)

    443 points · HN #49076923

  23. 23

    RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB (gpusolutions.net)

    155 points · HN #49041256

  24. 24

    C/C++ projects packaged for Zig (github.com/allyourcodebase)

    78 points · HN #49076791

  25. 25

    DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it (ciphercue.com)

    200 points · HN #49081783

  26. 26

    Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API (telnyx.com)

    132 points · HN #49076505

  27. 27

    Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download (github.com/frigadehq)

    104 points · HN #49073834

  28. 28

    Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era (acm.org)

    160 points · HN #49081644

  29. 29

    How Do I Profile eBPF Code? (naveensrinivasan.com)

    123 points · HN #49085811

  30. 30

    Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts (arsastronomica.com)

    109 points · HN #49079727