HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-16

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Claude Opus 4.7 (anthropic.com)

    1959 points · HN #47793411

  2. 02

    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all (qwen.ai)

    1274 points · HN #47792764

  3. 03

    Codex for almost everything (openai.com)

    1001 points · HN #47796469

  4. 04

    IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark (google.com)

    816 points · HN #47777894

  5. 05

    The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here? (aphyr.com)

    745 points · HN #47792718

  6. 06

    Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents (cloudflare.com)

    307 points · HN #47792538

  7. 07

    The paper computer (jsomers.net)

    291 points · HN #47747770

  8. 08

    Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent (googleblog.com)

    315 points · HN #47797665

  9. 09

    Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links (clojure.org)

    362 points · HN #47798345

  10. 10

    Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs (darkbloom.dev)

    501 points · HN #47788542

  11. 11

    Codex Hacked a Samsung TV (calif.io)

    259 points · HN #47791212

  12. 12

    FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account (daedal.io)

    398 points · HN #47788424

  13. 13

    A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter (ropensci.org)

    164 points · HN #47799573

  14. 14

    Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)

    463 points · HN #47796830

  15. 15

    Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine (github.com/gainsec)

    225 points · HN #47800033

  16. 16

    AI cybersecurity is not proof of work (antirez.com)

    241 points · HN #47791236

  17. 17

    CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome (medicalxpress.com)

    225 points · HN #47781286

  18. 18

    Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git (cloudflare.com)

    217 points · HN #47792374

  19. 19

    Cloudflare Email Service (cloudflare.com)

    464 points · HN #47792593

  20. 20

    New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims (theguardian.com)

    274 points · HN #47800166

  21. 21

    Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters (tratt.net)

    135 points · HN #47777897

  22. 22

    RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update (github.com/nightmare-eclipse)

    195 points · HN #47788473

  23. 23

    Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs (zatanna.ai)

    100 points · HN #47794514

  24. 24

    Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1989 Macintosh (github.com/seanfdz)

    159 points · HN #47792525

  25. 25

    The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs (joanwestenberg.com)

    406 points · HN #47799120

  26. 26

    The Gemini app is now on Mac (blog.google)

    186 points · HN #47782256

  27. 27

    North American English Dialects (aschmann.net)

    164 points · HN #47788398

  28. 28

    Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers (gpfault.net)

    150 points · HN #47749548

  29. 29

    Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (lighterra.com)

    188 points · HN #47737499

  30. 30

    Show HN: CodeBurn – Analyze Claude Code token usage by task (github.com/agentseal)

    112 points · HN #47759035