DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-05-02
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (github.com/microsoft)
- 02
Dav2d (videolan.org)
- 03
How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (eclecticlight.co)
- 04
Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
- 05
Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade (epo.org)
- 06
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (noctua.at)
- 07
Six years perfecting maps on watchOS (david-smith.org)
- 08
Artemis II Photo Timeline (artemistimeline.com)
- 09
Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025) (universiteitleiden.nl)
- 10
NetHack 5.0.0 (nethack.org)
- 11
The USB Situation (randsinrepose.com)
- 12
The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox (mendral.com)
- 13
Ask.com has closed (ask.com)
- 14
Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming (github.com/microsoft)
- 15
Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com/enterprisedb)
- 16
To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi (yale.edu)
- 17
Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (clojuriststogether.org)
- 18
DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier (simonwillison.net)
- 19
Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
- 20
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws (bbc.com)
- 21
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
- 22
A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf] (mirandaheath.website)
- 23
Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com/nexu-io)
- 24
Little magazines are back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
- 25
Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings (cnbc.com)
- 26
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
- 27
Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com/dotcl)
- 28
Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans (github.com/bruin-data)
- 29
Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies (techcrunch.com)
- 30
AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights (arxiv.org)