HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-07

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)

    816 points · HN #49204352

  2. 02

    What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)

    1110 points · HN #49209539

  3. 03

    DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)

    796 points · HN #49214008

  4. 04

    Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)

    704 points · HN #49199346

  5. 05

    Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)

    436 points · HN #49214098

  6. 06

    Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (dealroom.co)

    536 points · HN #49213754

  7. 07

    São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest (saopaulosecreto.com)

    351 points · HN #49138446

  8. 08

    2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)

    519 points · HN #49207236

  9. 09

    Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)

    340 points · HN #49208535

  10. 10

    Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)

    261 points · HN #49214770

  11. 11

    Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes (sciencedaily.com)

    217 points · HN #49202716

  12. 12

    Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (cloudflare.com)

    221 points · HN #49208393

  13. 13

    An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)

    190 points · HN #49211921

  14. 14

    US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)

    910 points · HN #49208314

  15. 15

    Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale (databricks.com)

    317 points · HN #49214468

  16. 16

    Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)

    222 points · HN #49203105

  17. 17

    Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)

    199 points · HN #49209572

  18. 18

    Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)

    206 points · HN #49213029

  19. 19

    Carl's Required Reading (carlkolon.com)

    237 points · HN #49135457

  20. 20

    A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)

    462 points · HN #49211386

  21. 21

    Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/wyzer-lang)

    227 points · HN #49209385

  22. 22

    I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)

    258 points · HN #49152255

  23. 23

    Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)

    210 points · HN #49208458

  24. 24

    Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)

    259 points · HN #49216362

  25. 25

    Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer (bbc.com)

    159 points · HN #49163879

  26. 26

    Möbius-Strip Crosswords (quuxplusone.github.io)

    81 points · HN #49211660

  27. 27

    Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025) (aleksagordic.com)

    151 points · HN #49202852

  28. 28

    Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015) (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)

    89 points · HN #49214775

  29. 29

    Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)

    88 points · HN #49157770

  30. 30

    Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop? (londonist.com)

    67 points · HN #49158302