HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-16

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Claude: System Prompts (claude.com)

    762 points · HN #49319556

  2. 02

    Asus Bike Booster (asus.com)

    626 points · HN #49268580

  3. 03

    A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)

    625 points · HN #49321717

  4. 04

    Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)

    715 points · HN #49319633

  5. 05

    Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (severe-weather.eu)

    452 points · HN #49313428

  6. 06

    The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)

    334 points · HN #49320611

  7. 07

    Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work (duckdb.org)

    281 points · HN #49243061

  8. 08

    Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)

    325 points · HN #49314902

  9. 09

    Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

    663 points · HN #49322107

  10. 10

    Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)

    173 points · HN #49322573

  11. 11

    SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX (pikuma.com)

    138 points · HN #49285096

  12. 12

    Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga (nnamgreb.de)

    126 points · HN #49281352

  13. 13

    MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)

    118 points · HN #49322330

  14. 14

    A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer (lapcatsoftware.com)

    166 points · HN #49244872

  15. 15

    Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter (lowtechlab.org)

    199 points · HN #49259980

  16. 16

    Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (youtube.com)

    84 points · HN #49313920

  17. 17

    Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware (hwbusters.com)

    162 points · HN #49292385

  18. 18

    Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)

    114 points · HN #49315995

  19. 19

    Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (anthropic.com)

    200 points · HN #49316271

  20. 20

    St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)

    196 points · HN #49320856

  21. 21

    Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)

    439 points · HN #49319389

  22. 22

    A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)

    117 points · HN #49319349

  23. 23

    A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem (arxiv.org)

    98 points · HN #49268565

  24. 24

    Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life (wustl.edu)

    98 points · HN #49306021

  25. 25

    Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)

    93 points · HN #49315742

  26. 26

    Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)

    335 points · HN #49322695

  27. 27

    Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite (notebook.link)

    68 points · HN #49269451

  28. 28

    Tea5767-Radio-Tuner (github.com/turtushig22-blip)

    59 points · HN #49315456

  29. 29

    Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (github.com/wmww)

    86 points · HN #49313068

  30. 30

    Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)

    165 points · HN #49277952