HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-31

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Playa Phone (playaphone.com)

    751 points · HN #49510514

  2. 02

    I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (jasontucker.blog)

    630 points · HN #49511856

  3. 03

    Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (rockpapershotgun.com)

    502 points · HN #49467636

  4. 04

    A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] (youtube.com)

    401 points · HN #49512975

  5. 05

    Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (macrumors.com)

    501 points · HN #49508982

  6. 06

    I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com)

    401 points · HN #49508506

  7. 07

    RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source (ravynos.com)

    240 points · HN #49511534

  8. 08

    Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (chosun.com)

    284 points · HN #49496292

  9. 09

    Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)

    253 points · HN #49489376

  10. 10

    OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor (openshot.org)

    603 points · HN #49507822

  11. 11

    ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (chatgpt.site)

    245 points · HN #49510000

  12. 12

    Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (wsj.com)

    216 points · HN #49500504

  13. 13

    Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)

    229 points · HN #49504905

  14. 14

    Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO (webiterate.dev)

    761 points · HN #49514878

  15. 15

    Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs)

    318 points · HN #49467700

  16. 16

    Understanding ChatGPT Work (simonwillison.net)

    352 points · HN #49504625

  17. 17

    Damn fine tiny cafe (sandyuraz.com)

    397 points · HN #49481141

  18. 18

    A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history (arstechnica.com)

    388 points · HN #49506182

  19. 19

    How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)

    184 points · HN #49503956

  20. 20

    Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (abortretry.fail)

    193 points · HN #49503934

  21. 21

    P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)

    225 points · HN #49505219

  22. 22

    Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (embracethered.com)

    399 points · HN #49506819

  23. 23

    It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell (vghaisas.com)

    242 points · HN #49480091

  24. 24

    Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)

    59 points · HN #49511007

  25. 25

    Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com/hebbian-robotics)

    46 points · HN #49510632

  26. 26

    'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online (phys.org)

    215 points · HN #49476239

  27. 27

    Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic (relm4.org)

    64 points · HN #49446705

  28. 28

    uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com/astral-sh)

    231 points · HN #49506142

  29. 29

    No country for mediocre mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)

    250 points · HN #49495171

  30. 30

    Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)

    199 points · HN #49505217