HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-09-07

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Keep Our Servers Running (blog.archive.org)

    1058 points · HN #49593563

  2. 02

    LG Smart TVs Secretly Record Audio and Scan Networks Even When Turned Off

    940 points · HN #49592375

  3. 03

    Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026) (parcelscope.net)

    342 points · HN #49601655

  4. 04

    LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices (notebookcheck.net)

    1201 points · HN #49594878

  5. 05

    Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics (mathathonchallenge.com)

    271 points · HN #49596055

  6. 06Terminal showing byte count verification, compilation, and fizzbuzz output from the 1024-byte interpreter

    Making a Python Interpreter in 1024 Bytes of C

    325 points · HN #49591876

  7. 07

    WeatherNext 3 (deepmind.google)

    406 points · HN #49552299

  8. 08

    Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world (ox.ac.uk)

    263 points · HN #49569838

  9. 09

    Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads (virtualizationhowto.com)

    270 points · HN #49602699

  10. 10

    Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds (mceglowski.substack.com)

    222 points · HN #49586207

  11. 11

    Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution (arxiv.org)

    241 points · HN #49575515

  12. 12

    Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

    299 points · HN #49577129

  13. 13

    Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE) (yale.edu)

    172 points · HN #49554622

  14. 14

    bzip3 (github.com/iczelia)

    431 points · HN #49598291

  15. 15

    Live map of public transport in Belgium (openbaarvervoerbelgie.be)

    198 points · HN #49595865

  16. 16

    Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

    320 points · HN #49589914

  17. 17

    Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)

    263 points · HN #49558685

  18. 18

    This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 (ladybird.org)

    289 points · HN #49571096

  19. 19

    Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? (mbmccoy.dev)

    134 points · HN #49591793

  20. 20

    Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements (theregister.com)

    310 points · HN #49597189

  21. 21

    Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers (itsfoss.com)

    371 points · HN #49594251

  22. 22

    Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs (vllm.ai)

    145 points · HN #49596054

  23. 23

    De-Brainrot Vacations (devz.cl)

    518 points · HN #49597907

  24. 24

    Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode (martypc.blogspot.com)

    150 points · HN #49561002

  25. 25

    'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes (variety.com)

    323 points · HN #49596119

  26. 26

    Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post (gettogether.dev)

    107 points · HN #49592840

  27. 27Whistle Synth icon on the Mac App Store listing

    Whistle Synth Brings AI-Assisted Whistle-Controlled Synthesis to the Mac App Store

    90 points · HN #49562440

  28. 28

    Reverse engineering the storage format for an undocumented database (glazer.ee)

    70 points · HN #49561514

  29. 29

    The Dataflow Model Revisited (vldb.org)

    116 points · HN #49589190

  30. 30

    Show HN: Jigsaw Haiku (jigsawhaiku.com)

    118 points · HN #49568162