Channel
@HNDigestEN
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
40subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003507719586 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @HNDigestEN |
| Created | Between 1 December 2025 and 31 May 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 17 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 17 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/HNDigestEN |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Sept 2026, 12:39 | 40 | +1 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 01:21 | 39 | -2 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 02:55 | 41 | +1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 19:31 | 40 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 23:48 | 40 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 10 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
How I use LLMs to learn complex topics Generating interactive, low-poly web simulations like ChipTycoon via LLM prompts provides a visual, hands-on workflow for mastering complex manufacturing processes. 💬 Skepticism emerged over the author's 'hallucination-free' claim, with warnings about the danger of learning incorrect facts from LLMs. → discussion 770 points · 502 comments · #daily · @HNDigestEn
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM The WebView2-based application consumes up to 1.6 GB of RAM and displays embedded ads because it runs as an MSN web app rather than a native Windows utility. 💬 Several users criticized the embedded ads, while others questioned if the author confused active RAM with page file allocation. → discussion 550 points · 475 comments · #daily · @HNDigestEn
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) HN users are building a Zig-based Linux screen recorder using Vulkan Video, a single-HTML SQL editor using AGENTS.md metadata tables, and a printed monthly newspaper designed to reduce kids' screen time. 214 points · 752 comments · #daily · @HNDigestEn
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments Denmark will implement oral defenses for high school papers to counter AI cheating, reviving a traditional academic testing format to ensure students actually wrote their own work. 💬 Danish educators note oral defenses are a traditional, recently defunded format now returning to counter AI-assisted plagiarism. → discussion 599 points · 271 comm…
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers High developer salaries, rigorous technical interviews, and persistent software bugs counter the claim that coding is easy, highlighting that implementation remains a highly complex craft even in the AI era. 💬 Several users point out the author is an AI consultant, while others debate the distinction between builders and engineers. → discussion 764 poi…
HN Digest | The Best of Hacker News pinned «Hacker News Digest #24 1 Aug — 8 Aug 2026 1. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs Demis Hassabis is transitioning to Chair of Google DeepMind, Koray Kavukcuoglu is stepping up as SVP, and Jeff Dean is leaving to…»
Hacker News Digest #24 · 6–10 6. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? Security researchers discovered that a batch of critical SQLite CVEs, initially rated 10.0 by Red Hat, were completely fabricated, AI-generated slop referencing non-existent functions. 💬 Security professionals warn that automated ingestion of unverified CVEs creates a massive, expensive triage burden for organizations. → discussion726 points · 374 …
Hacker News Digest #24 1 Aug — 8 Aug 2026 1. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs Demis Hassabis is transitioning to Chair of Google DeepMind, Koray Kavukcuoglu is stepping up as SVP, and Jeff Dean is leaving to co-found an independent public benefit corporation called Discovery Loop. 💬 Industry observers view this as a massive organizational shift, noting Hassabis's hist…
Taste Is All That's Left AI code generation collapses the distance between idea and artifact, making human judgment—developed through sitting with past mistakes—the only remaining scarce skill in software engineering. 💬 Some commenters argue that prioritizing taste over speed leads to market failure, as markets cannot easily measure quality. → discussion 592 points · 464 comments · #daily · @HNDigestEn
🔥 US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects German energy giant RWE will reinvest the $1.2 billion payout into conventional gas projects, including a $900 million LNG export terminal in Louisiana, after relinquishing its US offshore wind leases. 💬 Intense debate focused on the hypocrisy of canceling wind leases while redirecting public funds to fossil fuel projects. → discussion 456 p…
Mario Meets Pareto Mario Kart 8 has tens of thousands of driver, kart, tire, and glider combinations, but applying Pareto efficiency filters out dominated options to reveal the mathematically optimal builds. 💬 Readers praised the interactive, 3D presentation and discussed applying Pareto frontiers to software trade-offs like security versus user experience. → discussion 1047 points · 160 comments · #daily · @HNDig…
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon Early tech demos of Taalas's model-specific integrated circuits achieved inference speeds of up to 17,000 tokens per second by hardwiring specific LLMs directly into silicon. 💬 Disappointment that Taalas will not launch independent hardware is balanced by optimism for AMD's integration of the technology. → discussion 513 points · 394 c…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @HNDigestEN. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 17 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“HN Digest | The Best of Hacker News” (@HNDigestEN), 40 subscribers as measured 17 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/HNDigestEN.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.