HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-22

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Felony Bench (felonybench.com)

    850 points · HN #49389430

  2. 02

    ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)

    497 points · HN #49400408

  3. 03

    Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io)

    423 points · HN #49393052

  4. 04

    Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (munderdiffl.in)

    312 points · HN #49398152

  5. 05

    Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (level1techs.com)

    511 points · HN #49402232

  6. 06

    Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)

    497 points · HN #49351802

  7. 07

    Scrap (2006) (twitter.com/moxie)

    419 points · HN #49402189

  8. 08

    There's no reason for software to be slow anymore (danluu.com)

    669 points · HN #49395628

  9. 09

    typ.ing (typ.ing)

    365 points · HN #49346854

  10. 10

    Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021) (computer.org)

    150 points · HN #49398158

  11. 11

    New MCP Roadmap (modelcontextprotocol.io)

    270 points · HN #49399591

  12. 12

    A Friendly Introduction to Racket (geometridae.bearblog.dev)

    271 points · HN #49399898

  13. 13

    RF Cafe (rfcafe.com)

    250 points · HN #49355659

  14. 14

    How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (reuters.com)

    211 points · HN #49387959

  15. 15

    Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (bbc.com)

    726 points · HN #49397074

  16. 16

    ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (atproto.com)

    178 points · HN #49379732

  17. 17

    NetBSD and my life (2005) (netbsd.org)

    153 points · HN #49402781

  18. 18

    Three important steps in my maturation process (thomasdullien.github.io)

    227 points · HN #49394496

  19. 19

    Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime (lambda-symbolics.com)

    128 points · HN #49376197

  20. 20

    OTel isn’t going well (matduggan.com)

    235 points · HN #49391553

  21. 21

    Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice (washu.edu)

    157 points · HN #49380303

  22. 22

    Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team (ozbrain.com)

    93 points · HN #49394827

  23. 23

    Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong (gingerbill.org)

    160 points · HN #49376769

  24. 24

    Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)

    167 points · HN #49388694

  25. 25

    What's in a PowerPoint File? (editide.com)

    93 points · HN #49360643

  26. 26

    hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (lapcatsoftware.com)

    189 points · HN #49402741

  27. 27

    HN: The Good Parts (2016) (danluu.com)

    82 points · HN #49395171

  28. 28

    A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber (decodingvibes.com)

    237 points · HN #49399524

  29. 29

    Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device (grapheneos.social)

    149 points · HN #49395605

  30. 30

    One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? (columbia.edu)

    117 points · HN #49392536