HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-04

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)

    1550 points · HN #48007438

  2. 02

    GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)

    712 points · HN #48006402

  3. 03

    How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)

    510 points · HN #48013919

  4. 04

    Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks (nber.org)

    343 points · HN #48009983

  5. 05

    Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)

    379 points · HN #47977990

  6. 06

    Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/l1v1ng0ffth3l4n)

    644 points · HN #48012735

  7. 07

    Redis array: short story of a long development process (antirez.com)

    320 points · HN #48009172

  8. 08

    Let's Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)

    607 points · HN #48002777

  9. 09

    I am worried about Bun (wwj.dev)

    523 points · HN #48011184

  10. 10

    Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability (strix.ai)

    221 points · HN #48012162

  11. 11

    US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants (techcrunch.com)

    523 points · HN #48011689

  12. 12

    How Monero’s proof of work works (alcazarsec.com)

    318 points · HN #48009020

  13. 13

    Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac (notepad-plus-plus.org)

    634 points · HN #48006445

  14. 14

    Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected (tomshardware.com)

    408 points · HN #47940789

  15. 15

    Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024) (aruljohn.com)

    154 points · HN #47961208

  16. 16

    Introduction to Atom (w3.org)

    137 points · HN #48002089

  17. 17

    PyInfra 3.8.0 (github.com/pyinfra-dev)

    307 points · HN #48008083

  18. 18

    Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) (stuffedcow.net)

    164 points · HN #47968187

  19. 19

    Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database (pomiferous.com)

    141 points · HN #48009441

  20. 20

    The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (jdgr.net)

    229 points · HN #48002607

  21. 21

    Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight (stripe.dev)

    215 points · HN #48014325

  22. 22

    Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to (economist.com)

    309 points · HN #48011603

  23. 23

    Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (ecopv-eu.com)

    573 points · HN #48009697

  24. 24

    Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (nhk.or.jp)

    227 points · HN #47983333

  25. 25

    The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)

    296 points · HN #48002938

  26. 26

    UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations (fuelinsight.co.uk)

    195 points · HN #48009747

  27. 27

    Heat pump sales rise across Europe (pv-magazine.com)

    273 points · HN #48012003

  28. 28

    Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (science.org)

    160 points · HN #48008074

  29. 29

    K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s (github.com/alexellis)

    91 points · HN #47975069

  30. 30

    Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)

    463 points · HN #48002442