HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-12

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023) (johnloeber.com)

    694 points · HN #47738827

  2. 02

    Most people can't juggle one ball (lesswrong.com)

    507 points · HN #47702887

  3. 03

    Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024) (the-independent.com)

    669 points · HN #47739313

  4. 04

    Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block

    1157 points · HN #47738883

  5. 05

    Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS (boringbar.app)

    520 points · HN #47742200

  6. 06

    I gave every train in New York an instrument (trainjazz.com)

    398 points · HN #47719490

  7. 07

    Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone (phyphox.org)

    256 points · HN #47737376

  8. 08

    Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card) (github.com/rochus-keller)

    245 points · HN #47739174

  9. 09

    JVM Options Explorer (chriswhocodes.com)

    222 points · HN #47738094

  10. 10

    I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack (stevehanov.ca)

    980 points · HN #47736555

  11. 11

    Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage (github.com/anthropics)

    759 points · HN #47739260

  12. 12

    We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees (blogfontawesome.wpcomstaging.com)

    364 points · HN #47738978

  13. 13

    Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play (bsky.app)

    524 points · HN #47743730

  14. 14

    Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th (github.com/anthropics)

    552 points · HN #47736476

  15. 15

    The peril of laziness lost (dtrace.org)

    480 points · HN #47743628

  16. 16

    A Tour of Oodi (blinry.org)

    177 points · HN #47706560

  17. 17

    Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system (pijul.org)

    191 points · HN #47672941

  18. 18

    Happy Map (pudding.cool)

    260 points · HN #47675444

  19. 19

    The End of Eleventy (brennan.day)

    229 points · HN #47735535

  20. 20

    How Complex is my Code? (philodev.one)

    174 points · HN #47673171

  21. 21

    Tofolli gates are all you need (johndcook.com)

    129 points · HN #47672718

  22. 22

    Doom, Played over Curl (github.com/xsawyerx)

    124 points · HN #47737876

  23. 23

    The Soul of an Old Machine (skalski.dev)

    78 points · HN #47674273

  24. 24

    US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (theguardian.com)

    246 points · HN #47736298

  25. 25

    Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts (awi.de)

    103 points · HN #47744132

  26. 26

    The Physics of GPS (perthirtysix.com)

    170 points · HN #47738343

  27. 27

    An Interview with Pat Gelsinger (morethanmoore.substack.com)

    109 points · HN #47706423

  28. 28

    AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It (thealgorithmicbridge.com)

    348 points · HN #47737563

  29. 29

    Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User (github.com/halfwhey)

    120 points · HN #47741889

  30. 30

    Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user (theregister.com)

    337 points · HN #47737383