DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-08-21
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)
- 02
Kobo can run apps now (bandarlabs.github.io)
- 03
Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (nytimes.com)
- 04
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)
- 05
AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (economist.com)
- 06
Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (github.com/adnanakil)
- 07
Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe (lbl.gov)
- 08
I'm becoming AI-blind (cymerys.com)
- 09
New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)
- 10
People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)
- 11
Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)
- 12
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (deepseek.com)
- 13
A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)
- 14
How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms (nari-labs.com)
- 15
Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (experimental-history.com)
- 16
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)
- 17
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)
- 18
A look under our trunk: what's in our compute (waymo.com)
- 19
Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)
- 20
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)
- 21
Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (xda-developers.com)
- 22
Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes (byroot.github.io)
- 23
Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout (invertingvision.com)
- 24
Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023) (hardcoded.net)
- 25
I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)
- 26
Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)
- 27
Captain Zilog (zilog.com)
- 28
We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)
- 29
Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com/openai)
- 30
Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)