HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-19

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Vercel April 2026 security incident (bleepingcomputer.com)

    867 points · HN #47824463

  2. 02

    College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)

    492 points · HN #47818485

  3. 03

    Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 (archive.org)

    602 points · HN #47806096

  4. 04

    What are skiplists good for? (antithesis.com)

    290 points · HN #47806021

  5. 05

    Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)

    370 points · HN #47823270

  6. 06

    SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017) (usenix.org)

    187 points · HN #47822805

  7. 07

    The Bromine Chokepoint (warontherocks.com)

    230 points · HN #47826100

  8. 08

    Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)

    452 points · HN #47793161

  9. 09

    The RAM shortage could last years (theverge.com)

    354 points · HN #47822414

  10. 10

    The seven programming ur-languages (2022) (madhadron.com)

    351 points · HN #47822486

  11. 11

    Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language (nanopass.org)

    137 points · HN #47777715

  12. 12

    Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)

    182 points · HN #47779659

  13. 13

    Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerosint)

    401 points · HN #47824945

  14. 14

    The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)

    231 points · HN #47821429

  15. 15

    Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)

    163 points · HN #47823460

  16. 16

    Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)

    112 points · HN #47791771

  17. 17

    2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email (mxmap.ch)

    237 points · HN #47828420

  18. 18

    Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)

    120 points · HN #47820195

  19. 19

    Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024) (cssence.com)

    115 points · HN #47826502

  20. 20

    NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)

    235 points · HN #47820531

  21. 21

    I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language (github.com/navid-m)

    80 points · HN #47826852

  22. 22

    Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games (vincentgregoire.com)

    136 points · HN #47826104

  23. 23

    Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

    302 points · HN #47822940

  24. 24

    Show HN: Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders (basement.studio)

    160 points · HN #47796759

  25. 25

    Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)

    379 points · HN #47824976

  26. 26

    Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents (browser-use.com)

    108 points · HN #47781950

  27. 27

    It's cool to care (2025) (alexwlchan.net)

    111 points · HN #47779372

  28. 28

    I learned Unity the wrong way (darkounity.com)

    181 points · HN #47790041

  29. 29

    My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)

    60 points · HN #47819823

  30. 30

    Spiral staircase with a single guardrail once led to the top of the Eiffel Tower (smithsonianmag.com)

    54 points · HN #47794299