HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-15

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (wiley.com)

    502 points · HN #49311651

  2. 02

    At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (smithsonianmag.com)

    297 points · HN #49310682

  3. 03

    AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them (davidepiffer.com)

    634 points · HN #49312845

  4. 04

    RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)

    397 points · HN #49298035

  5. 05

    Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

    277 points · HN #49314235

  6. 06

    A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)

    282 points · HN #49310926

  7. 07

    Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (acc.org)

    343 points · HN #49314403

  8. 08

    AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)

    188 points · HN #49313367

  9. 09

    Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (sankalp.bearblog.dev)

    457 points · HN #49309549

  10. 10

    The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist (conic.al)

    391 points · HN #49307592

  11. 11

    Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding (bargi.org)

    338 points · HN #49309451

  12. 12

    Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum (baselashraf81.github.io)

    243 points · HN #49246366

  13. 13

    The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves (linebender.org)

    202 points · HN #49237183

  14. 14

    Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia (usgs.gov)

    224 points · HN #49306577

  15. 15

    Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (stapelberg.ch)

    123 points · HN #49314579

  16. 16

    eigendrum (eigendrum.com)

    216 points · HN #49305250

  17. 17

    In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace (popularmechanics.com)

    133 points · HN #49271382

  18. 18

    Xorshift Generators (alanzucconi.com)

    97 points · HN #49310128

  19. 19

    Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018) (arxiv.org)

    145 points · HN #49306196

  20. 20

    Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (codeberg.page)

    103 points · HN #49308685

  21. 21

    Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin (32bits.substack.com)

    133 points · HN #49272784

  22. 22

    Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)

    136 points · HN #49307700

  23. 23

    This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever (ieee.org)

    68 points · HN #49263186

  24. 24

    Racket v9.3 (racket-lang.org)

    143 points · HN #49302562

  25. 25

    The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (ploopy.co)

    150 points · HN #49306443

  26. 26

    The Color of White Light (ludens.cl)

    98 points · HN #49260582

  27. 27

    Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737 (wired.com)

    126 points · HN #49282951

  28. 28

    2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization (disneyresearch.com)

    80 points · HN #49306333

  29. 29

    A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms (nature.com)

    199 points · HN #49312008

  30. 30

    An image can overflow (master.dev)

    61 points · HN #49261421