DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-04-13
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)
- 02
DIY Soft Drinks (blinry.org)
- 03
GitHub Stacked PRs (github.github.com)
- 04
Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)
- 05
All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)
- 06
US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)
- 07
Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)
- 08
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
- 09
Android now stops you sharing your location in photos (shkspr.mobi)
- 10
Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another' (eetimes.com)
- 11
Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)
- 12
Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)
- 13
A perfectable programming language (alok.github.io)
- 14
How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (farre.se)
- 15
How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025) (arxiv.org)
- 16
The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind (viktorcessan.com)
- 17
Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning (adlrocha.substack.com)
- 18
Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it (neowin.net)
- 19
I just want simple S3 (feld.me)
- 20
N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases? (winfunc.com)
- 21
I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI (danielvaughan.com)
- 22
Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)
- 23
This year’s insane timeline of hacks (ringmast4r.substack.com)
- 24
Is math big or small? (chessapig.github.io)
- 25
Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised (thecentersquare.com)
- 26
Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets (arxiv.org)
- 27
Show HN: Ithihāsas – a character explorer for Hindu epics, built in a few hours (ithihasas.in)
- 28
The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)
- 29
MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand (ieee.org)
- 30
If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)