HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-08

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Git commands I run before reading any code (piechowski.io)

    2338 points · HN #47687273

  2. 02

    I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii (bryankeller.github.io)

    1924 points · HN #47691730

  3. 03

    They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)

    637 points · HN #47688678

  4. 04

    Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers (sourceforge.net)

    1297 points · HN #47686549

  5. 05

    US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology (cnet.com)

    765 points · HN #47689237

  6. 06

    ML promises to be profoundly weird (aphyr.com)

    615 points · HN #47689648

  7. 07

    MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (arxiv.org)

    326 points · HN #47689174

  8. 08

    Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example (kalmanfilter.net)

    433 points · HN #47693153

  9. 09

    USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers (werwolv.net)

    411 points · HN #47695012

  10. 10

    Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence (meta.com)

    393 points · HN #47692043

  11. 11

    Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones (skoda-storyboard.com)

    618 points · HN #47687248

  12. 12

    Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

    483 points · HN #47654062

  13. 13

    Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard (scottlawsonbc.com)

    250 points · HN #47675446

  14. 14

    Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates (404media.co)

    594 points · HN #47690977

  15. 15

    US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire (theguardian.com)

    605 points · HN #47682276

  16. 16

    John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement (thedrive.com)

    399 points · HN #47696035

  17. 17

    We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2 (railway.com)

    215 points · HN #47685945

  18. 18

    Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video] (youtube.com)

    384 points · HN #47685739

  19. 19

    I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue (nickvecchioni.github.io)

    433 points · HN #47693679

  20. 20

    Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing (arstechnica.com)

    124 points · HN #47676561

  21. 21

    Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)

    484 points · HN #47696562

  22. 22

    Protect your shed (dylanbutler.dev)

    320 points · HN #47684514

  23. 23

    Understanding Traceroute (stonecharioteer.com)

    177 points · HN #47656730

  24. 24

    I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit (oseifert.ch)

    162 points · HN #47648538

  25. 25

    Expanding Swift's IDE Support (swift.org)

    138 points · HN #47694983

  26. 26

    A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed (analogcamera.space)

    167 points · HN #47624572

  27. 27

    Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO (farzon.org)

    145 points · HN #47653642

  28. 28

    Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

    178 points · HN #47622436

  29. 29

    Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework (github.com/linebender)

    140 points · HN #47682719

  30. 30

    Union types in C# 15 (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)

    225 points · HN #47645717