HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-09-28

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Pirating the Pirates: How Fan Preservers Save Films Studios Alter or Abandon

    700 points · HN #49880036

  2. 02

    Author Claims NVIDIA Stock Option Discrepancy Worth Millions Due to Vesting Schedule Error

    1088 points · HN #49872723

  3. 03

    Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic.com)

    882 points · HN #49881850

  4. 04

    Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (thisamericanlife.org)

    483 points · HN #49879697

  5. 05

    Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms (github.com/firelex)

    573 points · HN #49883844

  6. 06

    Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream

    292 points · HN #49879702

  7. 07

    MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (stateofutopia.com)

    282 points · HN #49882781

  8. 08

    Congressional Investigation Urged into Frontier AI Labs' Risky Experiments

    624 points · HN #49883471

  9. 09Illustration of self-hosting a website on the Tor network as a .onion hidden service

    How to Self-Host a Website as a Tor Hidden Service

    356 points · HN #49870295

  10. 10

    Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (cnbc.com)

    227 points · HN #49879883

  11. 11

    Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (mills.io)

    327 points · HN #49875913

  12. 12Photograph of Göbeklitepe excavation showing two intact Neolithic burials beneath plaster floors with scattered human bones and archaeological context

    First Intact Burials at Göbeklitepe Reveal How Erosion Scattered Hundreds of Human Bones Across the Site

    170 points · HN #49855059

  13. 13

    Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (petervijeh.com)

    309 points · HN #49877678

  14. 14AMD CEO Lisa Su and Fei-Fei Li announcing the $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs

    AMD Acquires World Labs in $8.2 Billion Deal to Advance Physical AI

    307 points · HN #49883760

  15. 15Photo of the CoyoPedal pedalboard showing the ESP32-S3 touchscreen display and SD card slot

    CoyoPedal Brings Full Neural Amp Modeling to a Touchscreen ESP32-S3 Guitar Pedal

    163 points · HN #49852600

  16. 16Photo of a guitar workshop with tools arranged on a workbench

    Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

    161 points · HN #49869755

  17. 17

    Coding is not solved (alexewerlof.com)

    578 points · HN #49877988

  18. 18Digitized magnetogram from the Greenwich Magnetic Observatory showing extraordinary magnetic-field disturbances on 18 October 1848

    An 1840s space-weather mystery is solved: the Exeter train delay was 1848, not 1841

    128 points · HN #49883536

  19. 19HN.watch homepage showing Hacker News stories with explainer video badges

    HN.watch Generates AI Video Explainers for Hacker News Stories

    219 points · HN #49879401

  20. 20

    Using Kahneman’s Fast and Slow Thinking to Guide AI Architecture

    177 points · HN #49873241

  21. 21

    MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta (reuters.com)

    363 points · HN #49879000

  22. 22Nissan ZR15DDTe turbocharged purpose-built engine

    Nissan Unveils Third-Generation e-POWER Hybrid Powertrain with 5-in-1 Modular Design

    168 points · HN #49872883

  23. 23

    Why Code Review Resists Automation: Human Judgment Beyond Detectable Defects

    165 points · HN #49857281

  24. 24Nix flake repository for Cloudflare cf CLI showing dependencies and prebuilt binaries

    Cloudflare Launches cf CLI for Agentic Cloudflare API Access

    170 points · HN #49879577

  25. 25

    Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com)

    167 points · HN #49865312

  26. 26

    Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)

    192 points · HN #49880601

  27. 27A gold lion rampant on a blue shield

    What Heraldry and Japanese Mon Teach About Visual-Identity Generators

    83 points · HN #49878900

  28. 28

    37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (habibicode.org)

    181 points · HN #49875142

  29. 29Screenshot of the War of the Lance game visuals reconstructed using AI models

    Reverse Engineering a 1989 War Game with AI Shows How Transformers Are Reshaping Knowledge Labor

    134 points · HN #49861755

  30. 30

    AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

    440 points · HN #49875148