HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-30

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (uefa.com)

    1235 points · HN #49113929

  2. 02

    Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)

    818 points · HN #49112744

  3. 03

    Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)

    620 points · HN #49111237

  4. 04

    Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)

    783 points · HN #49112232

  5. 05

    AI's top startups are barely publishing their research (science.org)

    619 points · HN #49103285

  6. 06

    GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)

    357 points · HN #49108685

  7. 07

    The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)

    286 points · HN #49111176

  8. 08

    Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)

    610 points · HN #49112867

  9. 09

    Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (construction-physics.com)

    233 points · HN #49109193

  10. 10

    Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (quantamagazine.org)

    236 points · HN #49111305

  11. 11

    Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year (googleblog.com)

    423 points · HN #49107950

  12. 12

    The lost civic life of movie rental stores (mitpress.mit.edu)

    214 points · HN #49110308

  13. 13

    We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (bottlenecklabs.com)

    409 points · HN #49113059

  14. 14

    Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal (github.com/memoiremorte)

    99 points · HN #49083970

  15. 15

    Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it (ctgt.ai)

    170 points · HN #49113599

  16. 16

    CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)

    193 points · HN #49113338

  17. 17

    LLM Honeypot (llm2human.pages.dev)

    387 points · HN #49104117

  18. 18

    The Productivity Mirage (frantic.im)

    366 points · HN #49104335

  19. 19

    The Cold Email (zachholman.com)

    302 points · HN #49103089

  20. 20

    Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (anthropic.com)

    252 points · HN #49116922

  21. 21

    Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (github.com/aminblg)

    363 points · HN #49114639

  22. 22

    Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free (rune.build)

    100 points · HN #49116272

  23. 23

    2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026 (obryant.dev)

    280 points · HN #49047839

  24. 24

    Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (projectpluto.com)

    220 points · HN #49109616

  25. 25

    Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)

    176 points · HN #49110547

  26. 26

    Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (science.org)

    71 points · HN #49116074

  27. 27

    Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (grumpygamer.com)

    265 points · HN #49107246

  28. 28

    'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling (remysharp.com)

    434 points · HN #49109440

  29. 29

    Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools (prized.dev)

    79 points · HN #49109721

  30. 30

    Logic for Programmers (logicforprogrammers.com)

    217 points · HN #49104937