HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-09

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    LittleSnitch for Linux (obdev.at)

    1378 points · HN #47697870

  2. 02

    EFF is leaving X (eff.org)

    1427 points · HN #47706268

  3. 03

    Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (arhan.sh)

    644 points · HN #47708818

  4. 04

    Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)

    397 points · HN #47707477

  5. 05

    Help Keep Thunderbird Alive (thunderbird.net)

    579 points · HN #47700388

  6. 06

    Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer (elastiq.ch)

    321 points · HN #47709158

  7. 07

    Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes (skypilot.co)

    214 points · HN #47706141

  8. 08

    Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation (axios.com)

    632 points · HN #47703419

  9. 09

    PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement (eaw.app)

    226 points · HN #47708041

  10. 10

    Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator (nytimes.com)

    636 points · HN #47685320

  11. 11

    Open source security at Astral (astral.sh)

    365 points · HN #47699181

  12. 12

    Top laptops to use with FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.github.io)

    333 points · HN #47701148

  13. 13

    Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter (braw.dev)

    349 points · HN #47700972

  14. 14

    The Importance of Being Idle (theamericanscholar.org)

    318 points · HN #47666639

  15. 15

    Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming (patater.com)

    243 points · HN #47685644

  16. 16

    A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent (github.com/jure)

    150 points · HN #47702541

  17. 17

    Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy (bbc.com)

    215 points · HN #47701572

  18. 18

    Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries (hegel.dev)

    133 points · HN #47707762

  19. 19

    Haunted Paper Toys (ravensblight.com)

    246 points · HN #47658950

  20. 20

    Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection (github.com/aloshdenny)

    177 points · HN #47709130

  21. 21

    Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++ (github.com/randerson112)

    177 points · HN #47705413

  22. 22

    Claude mixes up who said what (dwyer.co.za)

    467 points · HN #47701233

  23. 23

    Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps (instantdb.com)

    215 points · HN #47707632

  24. 24

    Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage? (lzon.ca)

    395 points · HN #47710149

  25. 25

    Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence (perfectlynormal.co.uk)

    114 points · HN #47678690

  26. 26

    Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated (relvy.ai)

    48 points · HN #47702647

  27. 27

    Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead (davidoks.blog)

    220 points · HN #47710907

  28. 28

    How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU (pizzalegacy.nl)

    304 points · HN #47703123

  29. 29

    Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers (gadgetreview.com)

    306 points · HN #47708817

  30. 30

    Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent (cssstudio.ai)

    175 points · HN #47702196