HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-06

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)

    1747 points · HN #48037555

  2. 02

    Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)

    1634 points · HN #48038001

  3. 03

    Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)

    787 points · HN #48037128

  4. 04

    Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (cloudflare.com)

    658 points · HN #48031684

  5. 05

    StarFighter 16-Inch (starlabs.systems)

    687 points · HN #48031261

  6. 06

    The bottleneck was never the code (thetypicalset.com)

    586 points · HN #48006967

  7. 07

    Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA (cloud.google.com)

    415 points · HN #48039362

  8. 08

    From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth (val.town)

    304 points · HN #48038827

  9. 09

    CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” (aaedmusa.com)

    477 points · HN #48005432

  10. 10

    Ted Turner has died (cnn.com)

    296 points · HN #48037009

  11. 11

    YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken (openrss.org)

    340 points · HN #48030964

  12. 12

    245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping (micron.com)

    264 points · HN #48031867

  13. 13

    Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)

    205 points · HN #48037724

  14. 14

    Knitting bullshit (katedaviesdesigns.com)

    489 points · HN #48032461

  15. 15

    Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)

    317 points · HN #48038257

  16. 16

    Multi-stroke text effect in CSS (yuanchuan.dev)

    370 points · HN #48032265

  17. 17

    Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions (cian.lol)

    767 points · HN #48034587

  18. 18

    A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)

    250 points · HN #48027455

  19. 19

    Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server (draxinar.github.io)

    248 points · HN #48032976

  20. 20

    Inkscape 1.4.4 (inkscape.org)

    355 points · HN #48040622

  21. 21

    Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 (catstret.ch)

    145 points · HN #48034762

  22. 22

    Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (gatech.edu)

    235 points · HN #47998638

  23. 23

    Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model (sander.ai)

    161 points · HN #48040002

  24. 24

    Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents (letsdatascience.com)

    236 points · HN #48031109

  25. 25

    Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX (anthropic.com)

    512 points · HN #48037986

  26. 26

    Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases (dair.ai)

    134 points · HN #47997915

  27. 27

    Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)

    169 points · HN #48038019

  28. 28

    Virtual violin produces realistic sounds (news.mit.edu)

    96 points · HN #47996668

  29. 29

    Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me (stripes.com)

    354 points · HN #48031769

  30. 30

    Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) (happydaze.se)

    149 points · HN #48011077