HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-30

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants (dpa-international.com)

    871 points · HN #47961319

  2. 02

    How an oil refinery works (construction-physics.com)

    541 points · HN #47962548

  3. 03

    Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? (rivian.com)

    760 points · HN #47967786

  4. 04

    Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" (twitter.com/theo)

    1349 points · HN #47963204

  5. 05

    How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] (mitpress.mit.edu)

    710 points · HN #47965060

  6. 06

    Cursor Camp (neal.fun)

    1215 points · HN #47949939

  7. 07

    Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library (semgrep.dev)

    465 points · HN #47964617

  8. 08

    Where the goblins came from (openai.com)

    1072 points · HN #47957688

  9. 09

    You can beat the binary search (lemire.me)

    360 points · HN #47924912

  10. 10

    The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (simonwillison.net)

    683 points · HN #47957294

  11. 11

    I built a Game Boy emulator in F# (nickkossolapov.github.io)

    351 points · HN #47965503

  12. 12

    I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search (bidprowl.com)

    302 points · HN #47961378

  13. 13

    Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API (github.com/mozilla)

    663 points · HN #47959463

  14. 14

    Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (noctua.at)

    501 points · HN #47927627

  15. 15

    Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga (democrata.es)

    520 points · HN #47964034

  16. 16

    Craig Venter has died (jcvi.org)

    342 points · HN #47957101

  17. 17

    Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file (honker.dev)

    227 points · HN #47963316

  18. 18

    New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges (wideluxx.com)

    224 points · HN #47937033

  19. 19

    Reverse Engineering SimTower (phulin.me)

    259 points · HN #47937814

  20. 20

    Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (firethering.com)

    328 points · HN #47960507

  21. 21

    Full-Text Search with DuckDB (peterdohertys.website)

    207 points · HN #47966254

  22. 22

    10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home (gilesthomas.com)

    232 points · HN #47947944

  23. 23

    Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell (burrito.bio)

    216 points · HN #47957714

  24. 24

    Does Postgres Scale? (dbos.dev)

    192 points · HN #47966625

  25. 25

    Mike: open-source legal AI (mikeoss.com)

    209 points · HN #47956739

  26. 26

    Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs (github.com/cauchy221)

    201 points · HN #47957627

  27. 27

    Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs (bbc.com)

    526 points · HN #47961838

  28. 28

    The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill (wikipedia.org)

    113 points · HN #47939158

  29. 29

    LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions (404privacy.com)

    435 points · HN #47967262

  30. 30

    London to Calcutta by Bus (2022) (amusingplanet.com)

    127 points · HN #47941931