HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-17

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Claude Design (anthropic.com)

    1235 points · HN #47806725

  2. 02

    Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)

    714 points · HN #47807006

  3. 03

    Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)

    768 points · HN #47806304

  4. 04

    Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)

    792 points · HN #47804965

  5. 05

    Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)

    499 points · HN #47808268

  6. 06

    Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)

    272 points · HN #47806484

  7. 07

    NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)

    336 points · HN #47807209

  8. 08

    I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)

    364 points · HN #47807583

  9. 09

    Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)

    265 points · HN #47807809

  10. 10

    NIST gives up enriching most CVEs (risky.biz)

    235 points · HN #47806777

  11. 11

    Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (play.date)

    276 points · HN #47798176

  12. 12

    CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models (cadquery.github.io)

    231 points · HN #47772725

  13. 13

    A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)

    208 points · HN #47810872

  14. 14

    Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review (stagereview.app)

    130 points · HN #47796818

  15. 15

    Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming (chapel-lang.org)

    146 points · HN #47759436

  16. 16

    US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)

    400 points · HN #47801991

  17. 17

    Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages (iqiipi.com)

    286 points · HN #47803844

  18. 18

    Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code (lucasgerads.com)

    121 points · HN #47801255

  19. 19

    A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)

    157 points · HN #47755261

  20. 20

    Introducing: ShaderPad (rileyjshaw.com)

    144 points · HN #47781889

  21. 21

    Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)

    195 points · HN #47806348

  22. 22

    FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer (nongnu.org)

    146 points · HN #47803323

  23. 23

    ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm (github.com/seeed-projects)

    95 points · HN #47750600

  24. 24

    The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded (hal.science)

    119 points · HN #47773722

  25. 25

    Experiment with ICEYE Open Data (iceye.com)

    120 points · HN #47806440

  26. 26

    Human Accelerated Region 1 (wikipedia.org)

    125 points · HN #47802312

  27. 27

    I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months (wespiser.com)

    144 points · HN #47779049

  28. 28

    Everything we like is a psyop? (techcrunch.com)

    348 points · HN #47800738

  29. 29

    Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished (bbc.com)

    111 points · HN #47776663

  30. 30

    Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source (discourse.org)

    226 points · HN #47802233