HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-07-31

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)

    1680 points · HN #49124218

  2. 02

    qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work (github.com/yc-software)

    682 points · HN #49126604

  3. 03

    Big Food vs. the People (lighthousereports.com)

    274 points · HN #49124858

  4. 04

    Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI (blog.google)

    585 points · HN #49120097

  5. 05

    DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (deepseek.com)

    745 points · HN #49119559

  6. 06

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)

    594 points · HN #49120299

  7. 07

    Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio (jeffgeerling.com)

    230 points · HN #49125034

  8. 08

    The most official water costs $120k a gallon (signoregalilei.com)

    240 points · HN #49124042

  9. 09

    Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion (tailscale.com)

    627 points · HN #49127306

  10. 10

    The session you cannot take with you (earendil.com)

    790 points · HN #49118781

  11. 11

    I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals (geospatialml.com)

    276 points · HN #49116721

  12. 12

    Progressive Web Components (arielsalminen.com)

    196 points · HN #49121196

  13. 13

    Bad Apple but It's Traceroute (jssfr.de)

    157 points · HN #49071299

  14. 14

    The AI Aesthetic (jim-nielsen.com)

    378 points · HN #49117099

  15. 15

    The Religion of Speed (graybeard.ing)

    320 points · HN #49117284

  16. 16

    Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons? (quantamagazine.org)

    224 points · HN #49124358

  17. 17

    Let's make the worst Htmx (zserge.com)

    142 points · HN #49119270

  18. 18

    The End of an Era (hughhowey.com)

    455 points · HN #49121980

  19. 19

    Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: RowHammer and RowPress Phenomena (arxiv.org)

    64 points · HN #49128323

  20. 20

    JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master (github.com/openjdk)

    237 points · HN #49119063

  21. 21

    Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion (semyonsinchenko.github.io)

    137 points · HN #49124658

  22. 22

    Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way (maurycyz.com)

    190 points · HN #49121849

  23. 23

    Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions (github.com/mokshablr)

    211 points · HN #49119425

  24. 24

    Authorize, don't authenticate (marcua.net)

    110 points · HN #49123468

  25. 25

    Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video] (ccc.de)

    85 points · HN #49126919

  26. 26

    Where USB Memory Sticks are Born (2013) (bunniestudios.com)

    97 points · HN #49077372

  27. 27

    How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods (cgjennings.ca)

    132 points · HN #49070810

  28. 28

    Severance (lcamtuf.substack.com)

    272 points · HN #49125971

  29. 29

    Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours (manifest.build)

    132 points · HN #49126630

  30. 30

    The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem (fzakaria.com)

    116 points · HN #49096170