HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-09-10

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin (shopify.engineering)

    1273 points · HN #49643982

  2. 02

    More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math (mathstodon.xyz/andreasthom)

    867 points · HN #49639408

  3. 03Rust Foundation guest blog graphic announcing Microsoft Rust Tier-1 language status

    Microsoft Declares Rust a Tier-1 Language, Anchored by a New MSVC Codegen Backend

    729 points · HN #49643546

  4. 04

    DeepSeek v4.1 Flash (twitter.com/deepseek_ai)

    1015 points · HN #49639090

  5. 05

    Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (cognition.com)

    446 points · HN #49645443

  6. 06

    Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025) (nasa.gov)

    378 points · HN #49645437

  7. 07

    Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls (pv-magazine.com)

    321 points · HN #49627634

  8. 08OpenAI Developers wordmark in its signature typography

    OpenAI's Agents API turns the Codex harness into a hosted service

    349 points · HN #49649213

  9. 09

    Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom (pugetsound.edu)

    306 points · HN #49647134

  10. 10

    Neki – Sharded Postgres (planetscale.com)

    280 points · HN #49645686

  11. 11

    Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE (codeberg.org/forgejo)

    207 points · HN #49645907

  12. 12Screenshot of the Relativity Park simulator showing a virtual park with relativistic visual effects

    Relativity Park Simulator Redefines Light Speed at 5 km/h

    631 points · HN #49637385

  13. 13

    Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] (youtube.com)

    212 points · HN #49587121

  14. 14

    List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games (consumerrights.wiki)

    454 points · HN #49642531

  15. 15

    The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac (auberon.xyz)

    273 points · HN #49649124

  16. 16Matt Mullenweg wearing a distinctive bling watch, founder and CEO of Automattic

    Automattic Board Forces Founder Matt Mullenweg Into Leave of Absence, Names CFO Interim CEO

    458 points · HN #49636283

  17. 17

    What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

    363 points · HN #49640646

  18. 18

    Stockfish 19 (stockfishchess.org)

    277 points · HN #49599992

  19. 19

    Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography (merybenavente.me)

    142 points · HN #49649222

  20. 20

    NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami (ntsb.gov)

    150 points · HN #49650418

  21. 21

    JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation (openjdk.org)

    105 points · HN #49647404

  22. 22

    The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021 (honestlyranked.com)

    387 points · HN #49641215

  23. 23Illustration showing the factorization of RSA-260 into two 130-digit primes using GPU-accelerated sieve

    Researchers Factor RSA-260 Using GPU-Accelerated Sieve Built by AI Agent

    132 points · HN #49633534

  24. 24

    Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast (thomasahle.com)

    139 points · HN #49623398

  25. 25

    Larger Pacific striped octopus (wikipedia.org)

    136 points · HN #49621018

  26. 26

    Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024) (brown.edu)

    182 points · HN #49645754

  27. 27

    All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it (mathstodon.xyz/tao)

    273 points · HN #49638280

  28. 28Aardman studio Wallace and Gromit character display

    Aardman, Studio Behind Wallace and Gromit, Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets

    85 points · HN #49592799

  29. 29

    I have a theory that software drives people insane (graybeard.ing)

    470 points · HN #49646181

  30. 30

    Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract (latimes.com)

    252 points · HN #49635384