HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-23

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    GPT-5.5 (openai.com)

    1580 points · HN #47879092

  2. 02

    I am building a cloud (crawshaw.io)

    1115 points · HN #47872324

  3. 03

    Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign (socket.dev)

    872 points · HN #47876043

  4. 04

    An update on recent Claude Code quality reports (anthropic.com)

    942 points · HN #47878905

  5. 05

    Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs (bloomberg.com)

    800 points · HN #47879986

  6. 06

    Your hex editor should color-code bytes (simonomi.dev)

    614 points · HN #47846688

  7. 07

    MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code (meshcore.io)

    285 points · HN #47878117

  8. 08

    Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys (wired.com)

    964 points · HN #47878633

  9. 09

    Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite (github.com/russellromney)

    327 points · HN #47874647

  10. 10

    Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025) (ar-ms.me)

    178 points · HN #47873694

  11. 11

    A programmable watch you can actually wear (hackster.io)

    231 points · HN #47846307

  12. 12

    French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data (bleepingcomputer.com)

    410 points · HN #47877366

  13. 13

    Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image (antiz.fr)

    352 points · HN #47871519

  14. 14

    Using the internet like it's 1999 (joshblais.com)

    258 points · HN #47881198

  15. 15

    The Onion to Take over InfoWars (nytimes.com)

    481 points · HN #47843434

  16. 16

    UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub (rocher.lc)

    197 points · HN #47875843

  17. 17

    Incident with multple GitHub services (githubstatus.com)

    267 points · HN #47877644

  18. 18

    My phone replaced a brass plug (drobinin.com)

    185 points · HN #47877715

  19. 19

    Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases (github.com/refactoringhq)

    318 points · HN #47882697

  20. 20

    If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad? (derekthompson.org)

    564 points · HN #47877429

  21. 21

    Show HN: Agent Vault – Open-source credential proxy and vault for agents (github.com/infisical)

    156 points · HN #47865822

  22. 22

    Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way (skyandtelescope.org)

    159 points · HN #47879239

  23. 23

    Our newsroom AI policy (arstechnica.com)

    212 points · HN #47872452

  24. 24

    Isopods of the world (isopod.site)

    185 points · HN #47840520

  25. 25

    Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns (techcrunch.com)

    412 points · HN #47874814

  26. 26

    What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels? (quantamagazine.org)

    227 points · HN #47846718

  27. 27

    A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory (scientificamerican.com)

    121 points · HN #47848162

  28. 28

    Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge (bbc.com)

    226 points · HN #47880189

  29. 29

    I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable (tenphi.me)

    79 points · HN #47875025

  30. 30

    Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game (homemade.systems)

    112 points · HN #47871195