HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-29

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Zed 1.0 (zed.dev)

    2153 points · HN #47949027

  2. 02

    Copy Fail (copy.fail)

    1491 points · HN #47952181

  3. 03

    HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com/anthropics)

    1251 points · HN #47952722

  4. 04

    FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies (agwa.name)

    424 points · HN #47950510

  5. 05

    Online age verification is the hill to die on (x.com)

    974 points · HN #47950091

  6. 06

    Bugs Rust won't catch (corrode.dev)

    680 points · HN #47943499

  7. 07

    We need a federation of forges (tangled.org)

    599 points · HN #47948603

  8. 08

    An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce (github.com/gliax)

    306 points · HN #47949204

  9. 09

    How ChatGPT serves ads (buchodi.com)

    509 points · HN #47942437

  10. 10

    OpenTrafficMap (opentrafficmap.org)

    388 points · HN #47953541

  11. 11

    Laws of UX (lawsofux.com)

    346 points · HN #47951137

  12. 12

    Soft launch of open-source code platform for government (nldigitalgovernment.nl)

    560 points · HN #47945918

  13. 13

    Warp is now open-source (warp.dev)

    373 points · HN #47936264

  14. 14

    Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell (jointhefreeworld.org)

    269 points · HN #47945707

  15. 15

    Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years (jivx.com)

    381 points · HN #47953275

  16. 16

    Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (github.com/fesens)

    241 points · HN #47937380

  17. 17

    Mistral Medium 3.5 (mistral.ai)

    500 points · HN #47949642

  18. 18

    How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] (youtube.com)

    141 points · HN #47948664

  19. 19

    Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals (github.com/anthropics)

    252 points · HN #47942492

  20. 20

    Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores (theguardian.com)

    339 points · HN #47951007

  21. 21

    Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials (promptarmor.com)

    143 points · HN #47951786

  22. 22

    GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts (github.com/dos-history)

    162 points · HN #47946813

  23. 23

    HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work' (theregister.com)

    413 points · HN #47946958

  24. 24

    HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle (hardenedbsd.org)

    160 points · HN #47944864

  25. 25

    Withnail's Coat and I (ontherow.substack.com)

    134 points · HN #47926148

  26. 26

    Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown (chrisbrunet.com)

    265 points · HN #47950022

  27. 27

    Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing (jeffschomay.com)

    136 points · HN #47947525

  28. 28

    Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage (github.com/rocky-data)

    122 points · HN #47935246

  29. 29

    Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026 (lttlabs.com)

    90 points · HN #47942353

  30. 30

    Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things (rip.so)

    187 points · HN #47945955