DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-08-08
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
- 02
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
- 03
_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
- 04
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
- 05
A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
- 06
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
- 07
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
- 08
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
- 09
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
- 10
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)
- 11
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
- 12
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)
- 13
US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
- 14
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
- 15
Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband (zeus.ugent.be)
- 16
Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
- 17
SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
- 18
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
- 19
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
- 20
ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
- 21
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
- 22
Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (science.org)
- 23
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
- 24
Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (treehouse.systems)
- 25
Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
- 26
BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
- 27
From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
- 28
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
- 29
From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
- 30
LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)