DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-09-16
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)
- 02
Small programming tricks (will-keleher.com)
- 03
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard (xiaomi.com)
- 04
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)
- 05
AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran (wsj.com)
- 06
Hackers Expose Flock Camera Software, Revealing People Detection and National Surveillance Network
- 07
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography (security.apple.com)
- 08
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month (codyho.dev)
- 09
Backups Aren't Simple (filipovski.net)
- 10
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs (arxiv.org)
- 11
Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger (inflightsimulator.com)
- 12
Performance Improvements in .NET 11 (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)
- 13
The engineering behind the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve: salt‑cavern storage
- 14
Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds (arxiv.org)
- 15
Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries (untranslatedjp.substack.com)
- 16
Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA (nand2mario.github.io)
- 17
EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' (bbc.com)
- 18
OpenSpec: A Spec-Driven Framework for AI-Assisted Development
- 19
Anatomy of a Texture (agentlien.github.io)
- 20
Reversing Factorio's RNG (gegell.github.io)
- 21
The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week (gultsch.social)
- 22
Doing Everyone Else's Job (yosefk.com)
- 23
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)
- 24
Saving Jet Fuel (marksblogg.com)
- 25
Tell the speakers that you liked their talks (ohhelloana.blog)
- 26
The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)
- 27
Salesforce Global Outage (salesforce.com)
- 28
Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New (blog.archive.org)
- 29
Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years (tomshardware.com)
- 30
Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI (arxiv.org)