HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-11

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (bbc.com)

    561 points · HN #49257377

  2. 02

    As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing (thewalrus.ca)

    938 points · HN #49250836

  3. 03

    Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)

    699 points · HN #49257876

  4. 04

    France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (lemonde.fr)

    1064 points · HN #49254880

  5. 05

    OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (ft.com)

    524 points · HN #49257160

  6. 06

    H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (github.com/antirez)

    440 points · HN #49252179

  7. 07

    Mojo 1.0 (modular.com)

    432 points · HN #49261128

  8. 08

    The UK's war on anonymity has come to America (effort.news)

    672 points · HN #49251411

  9. 09

    Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead (stowaway.live)

    441 points · HN #49209918

  10. 10

    Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)

    329 points · HN #49226623

  11. 11

    Chicken Scheme 6.0 (call-cc.org)

    303 points · HN #49251702

  12. 12

    London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces (btp.police.uk)

    389 points · HN #49255496

  13. 13

    Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard (nvidia.com)

    262 points · HN #49263340

  14. 14

    The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life (resobscura.substack.com)

    225 points · HN #49184220

  15. 15

    Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (alen.is)

    295 points · HN #49251179

  16. 16

    Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme (jolt-lang.github.io)

    213 points · HN #49223965

  17. 17

    Nvidia's Risky Business (stratechery.com)

    356 points · HN #49255710

  18. 18

    Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering (googleblog.com)

    444 points · HN #49261133

  19. 19

    WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale (tencent-hunyuan.github.io)

    277 points · HN #49265051

  20. 20

    How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story (ironicsans.ghost.io)

    167 points · HN #49262211

  21. 21

    Making holograms with a pen plotter (matelsky.com)

    184 points · HN #49262811

  22. 22

    Manus will return to operating as an independent company (manus.im)

    169 points · HN #49258764

  23. 23

    Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word (fabscene.medium.com)

    117 points · HN #49212449

  24. 24

    What's the best programming language for coding agents? (danluu.com)

    262 points · HN #49245936

  25. 25

    LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models (huggingface.co)

    169 points · HN #49173107

  26. 26

    Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp (github.com/trycua)

    307 points · HN #49259339

  27. 27

    Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com/therealyt)

    166 points · HN #49259611

  28. 28

    Recycle – Floppydisks (floppydisk.com)

    120 points · HN #49252462

  29. 29

    What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy (lighthousenewsletter.com)

    201 points · HN #49256057

  30. 30

    CSS properties you should know for better text designs (master.dev)

    132 points · HN #49261417