DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-09-28
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Pirating the Pirates: How Fan Preservers Save Films Studios Alter or Abandon
- 02
Author Claims NVIDIA Stock Option Discrepancy Worth Millions Due to Vesting Schedule Error
- 03
Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic.com)
- 04
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (thisamericanlife.org)
- 05
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms (github.com/firelex)
- 06
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
- 07
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (stateofutopia.com)
- 08
Congressional Investigation Urged into Frontier AI Labs' Risky Experiments
- 09

How to Self-Host a Website as a Tor Hidden Service
- 10
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (cnbc.com)
- 11
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (mills.io)
- 12

First Intact Burials at Göbeklitepe Reveal How Erosion Scattered Hundreds of Human Bones Across the Site
- 13
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests (petervijeh.com)
- 14

AMD Acquires World Labs in $8.2 Billion Deal to Advance Physical AI
- 15
CoyoPedal Brings Full Neural Amp Modeling to a Touchscreen ESP32-S3 Guitar Pedal
- 16

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
- 17
Coding is not solved (alexewerlof.com)
- 18

An 1840s space-weather mystery is solved: the Exeter train delay was 1848, not 1841
- 19

HN.watch Generates AI Video Explainers for Hacker News Stories
- 20
Using Kahneman’s Fast and Slow Thinking to Guide AI Architecture
- 21
MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta (reuters.com)
- 22

Nissan Unveils Third-Generation e-POWER Hybrid Powertrain with 5-in-1 Modular Design
- 23
Why Code Review Resists Automation: Human Judgment Beyond Detectable Defects
- 24
Cloudflare Launches cf CLI for Agentic Cloudflare API Access
- 25
Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com)
- 26
Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman (spritefusion.com)
- 27

What Heraldry and Japanese Mon Teach About Visual-Identity Generators
- 28
37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (habibicode.org)
- 29

Reverse Engineering a 1989 War Game with AI Shows How Transformers Are Reshaping Knowledge Labor
- 30
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity