HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-09-12

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01JOSM Download panel with an area of interest selected on the map

    A 15-Minute Guide to Your First OpenStreetMap Edit Using the Website Wizard Plugin

    621 points · HN #49674050

  2. 02

    Nvidia is the central bank of AI (economist.com)

    582 points · HN #49673098

  3. 03

    LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' (tomshardware.com)

    632 points · HN #49645480

  4. 04

    We must pace the frontier (darioamodei.com)

    749 points · HN #49672510

  5. 05

    google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update (autom.dev)

    680 points · HN #49668386

  6. 06

    IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video] (youtube.com)

    609 points · HN #49639647

  7. 07Official Rust programming language logo

    Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

    246 points · HN #49625056

  8. 08Blue field entoptic phenomenon showing bright dots darting along wiggly paths against a blue background

    Bodily Oddities: A Catalog of 161 Strange Things the Human Body Can Do

    341 points · HN #49649789

  9. 09

    Apple iPod Engraver (2019) (dunstanorchard.com)

    288 points · HN #49619848

  10. 10

    Navier-Stokes Announcement (claymath.org)

    340 points · HN #49668706

  11. 11

    Will there be a 7G? (arxiv.org)

    125 points · HN #49674498

  12. 12Diagram showing Core ML folding constant scale and offset into convolution weights and bias before the ReLU activation

    Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

    240 points · HN #49670032

  13. 13

    Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown (supuk.ch)

    211 points · HN #49665502

  14. 14

    Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard (hachyderm.io)

    430 points · HN #49675902

  15. 15

    Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (righto.com)

    131 points · HN #49673580

  16. 16

    Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them (cbc.ca)

    159 points · HN #49624456

  17. 17

    I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times (lalitm.com)

    173 points · HN #49672842

  18. 18

    Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases (withspecific.com)

    275 points · HN #49676820

  19. 19

    John Deere's Self-Repair Service Exists, but Farmers Still Can't Fix Their Own Tractors

    146 points · HN #49658672

  20. 20

    Fuck it, make it anyway (joelotter.com)

    605 points · HN #49671329

  21. 21

    A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021) (transformer-circuits.pub)

    106 points · HN #49672365

  22. 22Magnetic tape reels labeled with usenet archive data from the David Wiseman collection

    Usenet-Rewind Offers Browseable Archive of 350,000 Newsgroups Spanning Three Decades

    138 points · HN #49668777

  23. 23

    The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle (tedium.co)

    127 points · HN #49671159

  24. 24Diagram showing CSS environment variables for viewport segment geometry on a foldable device

    How to Lay Out Web Content Across Foldable and Dual-Screen Devices

    63 points · HN #49643011

  25. 25Line chart showing the best WebAssembly runtime performance across 2024, 2025, and 2026 releases.

    WebAssembly Runtimes Are Getting Faster — But It Depends on Which One and What You Run

    102 points · HN #49623933

  26. 26

    LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest (github.com/gauravapiscean)

    108 points · HN #49643543

  27. 27

    Forgotten Woodlands (arcgis.com)

    91 points · HN #49665549

  28. 28

    Testing Race Conditions (projectzero.google)

    67 points · HN #49634928

  29. 29

    Eating Fruit Skins (pgadey.ca)

    101 points · HN #49625108

  30. 30

    How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats (trailofbits.com)

    79 points · HN #49671237