DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-22

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

1. 01

   Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price (wheelfront.com)

   2320 points · HN #47865868

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2. 02

   Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones (techcrunch.com)

   888 points · HN #47868867

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3. 03

   We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities (fingerprint.com)

   930 points · HN #47866697

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4. 04

   Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model (qwen.ai)

   993 points · HN #47863217

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5. 05

   5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (maurycyz.com)

   822 points · HN #47824943

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6. 06

   Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux (hails.org)

   1011 points · HN #47861270

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7. 07

   SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B (twitter.com/spacex)

   823 points · HN #47855293

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8. 08

   Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary (nrehiew.github.io)

   422 points · HN #47866913

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9. 09

   Technical, cognitive, and intent debt (martinfowler.com)

   352 points · HN #47865661

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10. 10

    Website streamed live directly from a model (flipbook.page)

    439 points · HN #47867048

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11. 11

    Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms (psu.edu)

    258 points · HN #47863324

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12. 12

    Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen (asteriskmag.com)

    706 points · HN #47835635

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13. 13

    Making RAM at Home [video] (youtube.com)

    627 points · HN #47842569

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14. 14

    Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns (adriankrebs.ch)

    333 points · HN #47864393

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15. 15

    Parallel agents in Zed (zed.dev)

    279 points · HN #47866750

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16. 16

    GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry (cli.github.com)

    464 points · HN #47862331

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17. 17

    Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players (reuters.com)

    191 points · HN #47864785

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18. 18

    Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era (blog.google)

    454 points · HN #47862497

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19. 19

    Bodega cats of New York (bodegacatsofnewyork.com)

    220 points · HN #47812649

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20. 20

    Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021) (luminousmen.substack.com)

    347 points · HN #47856535

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21. 21

    3.4M Solar Panels (marksblogg.com)

    320 points · HN #47862386

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22. 22

    Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM (jasoneckert.github.io)

    187 points · HN #47821801

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23. 23

    Another Day Has Come (daringfireball.net)

    255 points · HN #47854365

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24. 24

    Workspace Agents in ChatGPT (openai.com)

    161 points · HN #47866860

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25. 25

    What killed the Florida orange? (slate.com)

    170 points · HN #47840618

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26. 26

    How does GPS work? (perthirtysix.com)

    241 points · HN #47861087

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27. 27

    XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

    231 points · HN #47859861

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28. 28

    CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production (brex.com)

    132 points · HN #47850212

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29. 29

    Garbage collection without unsafe code (fitzgen.com)

    114 points · HN #47821853

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30. 30

    Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment (courthousenews.com)

    102 points · HN #47846861

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