HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-03-28

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)

    1404 points · HN #47556729

  2. 02

    AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (stanford.edu)

    792 points · HN #47554773

  3. 03

    Spanish legislation as a Git repo (github.com/enriquelop)

    827 points · HN #47553798

  4. 04

    I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)

    668 points · HN #47555556

  5. 05

    I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (youtube.com)

    463 points · HN #47553717

  6. 06

    Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem (stanford.edu)

    635 points · HN #47550282

  7. 07

    CSS is DOOMed (nielsleenheer.com)

    506 points · HN #47557960

  8. 08

    LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life (pcworld.com)

    320 points · HN #47495245

  9. 09

    Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com/bowang87)

    261 points · HN #47557166

  10. 10

    AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip (arstechnica.com)

    311 points · HN #47550878

  11. 11

    Linux is an interpreter (astrid.tech)

    241 points · HN #47556359

  12. 12

    OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (github.com/rajko-horvat)

    197 points · HN #47557064

  13. 13

    The bee that everyone wants to save (naturalist.bearblog.dev)

    288 points · HN #47520599

  14. 14

    CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering (theopenreader.org)

    334 points · HN #47552562

  15. 15

    Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly (github.com/j-x-z)

    331 points · HN #47553185

  16. 16

    South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots (reutersconnect.com)

    396 points · HN #47558997

  17. 17

    Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video] (youtube.com)

    122 points · HN #47515783

  18. 18

    Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most (twitchroulette.net)

    180 points · HN #47549160

  19. 19

    Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting (nickjanetakis.com)

    175 points · HN #47503687

  20. 20

    The first 40 months of the AI era (lzon.ca)

    216 points · HN #47557185

  21. 21

    Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer (cnbc.com)

    115 points · HN #47511112

  22. 22

    Undroidwish – A single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms (androwish.org)

    91 points · HN #47556267

  23. 23

    Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue (vegardstikbakke.com)

    101 points · HN #47508710

  24. 24

    Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables (iamkate.com)

    415 points · HN #47553484

  25. 25

    Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer (github.com/dbrll)

    145 points · HN #47518568

  26. 26

    Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (theregister.com)

    287 points · HN #47555090

  27. 27

    1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History (nybooks.com)

    93 points · HN #47513482

  28. 28

    Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting (coloradonewsline.com)

    127 points · HN #47547602

  29. 29

    Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors (schilk.co)

    70 points · HN #47511581

  30. 30

    Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide (alexedwards.net)

    115 points · HN #47509031