HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-23

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Everything I own, owned (schlarp.com)

    1453 points · HN #49413320

  2. 02

    What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)

    589 points · HN #49409092

  3. 03

    Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)

    266 points · HN #49408550

  4. 04

    How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)

    591 points · HN #49411643

  5. 05

    My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)

    284 points · HN #49408858

  6. 06

    How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (complexsystems.fail)

    389 points · HN #49409473

  7. 07

    My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality (fabiensanglard.net)

    415 points · HN #49410932

  8. 08

    To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)

    486 points · HN #49405870

  9. 09

    A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)

    412 points · HN #49410362

  10. 10

    Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025) (elis.cc)

    391 points · HN #49411717

  11. 11

    Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)

    305 points · HN #49402202

  12. 12

    Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)

    202 points · HN #49409862

  13. 13

    Explain it to me like I'm ten (timharford.com)

    200 points · HN #49411020

  14. 14

    MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)

    218 points · HN #49405816

  15. 15

    Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)

    349 points · HN #49406539

  16. 16

    Fable and the end of the free lunch (dbreunig.com)

    225 points · HN #49411468

  17. 17

    I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)

    706 points · HN #49409073

  18. 18

    The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)

    181 points · HN #49406333

  19. 19

    NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)

    140 points · HN #49404380

  20. 20

    The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)

    182 points · HN #49405331

  21. 21

    Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)

    306 points · HN #49411395

  22. 22

    Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)

    391 points · HN #49409200

  23. 23

    Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests (studyfinds.com)

    190 points · HN #49409780

  24. 24

    I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (xda-developers.com)

    369 points · HN #49407507

  25. 25

    I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)

    89 points · HN #49402181

  26. 26

    Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)

    116 points · HN #49402491

  27. 27

    JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)

    167 points · HN #49406387

  28. 28

    Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)

    132 points · HN #49402213

  29. 29

    I dream of quieter computing (henry.codes)

    129 points · HN #49405682

  30. 30

    The Vibe Tax (insufferable.dev)

    166 points · HN #49411199