DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-08-18
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
The Amazon tax (seths.blog)
- 02
Being ambitious and being a dad (nicholascharriere.com)
- 03
How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)
- 04
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
- 05
A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com/denissergeevitch)
- 06
fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (fx.sh)
- 07
Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (cursor.com)
- 08
Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com/ryancodrai)
- 09
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (shkspr.mobi)
- 10
Finger: the 1971 social network that never died (andros.dev)
- 11
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (tomshardware.com)
- 12
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com/kuberwastaken)
- 13
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)
- 14
Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities (openai.com)
- 15
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)
- 16
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)
- 17
The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] (youtube.com)
- 18
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera (catcrafts.net)
- 19
Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)
- 20
Beware Management Consultants (iceland.co.uk)
- 21
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)
- 22
Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)
- 23
Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD (tau.dev)
- 24
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)
- 25
Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items (repaircafe.org)
- 26
The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
- 27
Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)
- 28
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (posit.co)
- 29
Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asme.org)
- 30
Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI (machine0.io)