HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-01

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Ti-84 Evo (ti.com)

    603 points · HN #47979583

  2. 02

    New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming (newyorker.com)

    463 points · HN #47977748

  3. 03

    For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions (openwall.com)

    601 points · HN #47965108

  4. 04

    Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables (github.com/darrylmorley)

    566 points · HN #47972511

  5. 05

    I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

    212 points · HN #47975676

  6. 06

    Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey (theargumentmag.com)

    472 points · HN #47951295

  7. 07

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

    311 points · HN #47975571

  8. 08

    City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo (404media.co)

    478 points · HN #47978370

  9. 09

    The gay jailbreak technique (2025) (github.com/exocija)

    684 points · HN #47977134

  10. 10

    Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search (github.com/whohas)

    154 points · HN #47975592

  11. 11

    Maladaptive Frugality (herbertlui.net)

    226 points · HN #47942863

  12. 12

    Apocalypse Early Warning System (kylemcdonald.net)

    261 points · HN #47976566

  13. 13

    Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment (wired.com)

    172 points · HN #47955789

  14. 14

    New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome (tcd.ie)

    217 points · HN #47946899

  15. 15

    OpenWarp (zerx.dev)

    209 points · HN #47970622

  16. 16

    CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940 (watchtowr.com)

    158 points · HN #47969288

  17. 17

    AI uses less water than the public thinks (californiawaterblog.com)

    409 points · HN #47977383

  18. 18

    Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser (pagetable.com)

    154 points · HN #47973755

  19. 19

    Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI (bbc.com)

    287 points · HN #47976856

  20. 20

    Grok 4.3 (x.ai)

    405 points · HN #47972447

  21. 21

    Your website is not for you (websmith.studio)

    268 points · HN #47973376

  22. 22

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

    153 points · HN #47975570

  23. 23

    The smelly baby problem (worksinprogress.news)

    215 points · HN #47950070

  24. 24

    Understand Anything (github.com/lum1104)

    169 points · HN #47977470

  25. 25

    Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care? (idlemachines.co.uk)

    134 points · HN #47927011

  26. 26

    Whimsical Animations Course Open House (joshwcomeau.com)

    112 points · HN #47979190

  27. 27

    An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open (keepthingsopen.com)

    262 points · HN #47975785

  28. 28

    Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died (online-tribute.com)

    124 points · HN #47975392

  29. 29

    Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app (x.com)

    384 points · HN #47973378

  30. 30

    Show HN: AI CAD Harness (adam.new)

    101 points · HN #47977694