HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-08

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)

    1561 points · HN #48067119

  2. 02

    Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)

    1356 points · HN #48054423

  3. 03

    Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)

    921 points · HN #48055913

  4. 04

    Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)

    1063 points · HN #48062117

  5. 05

    David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)

    886 points · HN #48061884

  6. 06

    An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)

    524 points · HN #48061566

  7. 07

    Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)

    854 points · HN #48056227

  8. 08

    Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)

    419 points · HN #48065360

  9. 09

    AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)

    430 points · HN #48066524

  10. 10

    Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)

    375 points · HN #48057901

  11. 11

    Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)

    253 points · HN #48064312

  12. 12

    US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)

    336 points · HN #48061938

  13. 13

    Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

    1676 points · HN #48037336

  14. 14

    AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved (cnbc.com)

    267 points · HN #48058197

  15. 15

    You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)

    215 points · HN #48067734

  16. 16

    Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)

    403 points · HN #48032968

  17. 17

    Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)

    396 points · HN #48052371

  18. 18

    Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)

    308 points · HN #48035420

  19. 19

    Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)

    707 points · HN #48063199

  20. 20

    Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)

    388 points · HN #48051079

  21. 21

    A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)

    625 points · HN #48062178

  22. 22

    Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)

    152 points · HN #48056268

  23. 23

    Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)

    207 points · HN #48056158

  24. 24

    PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)

    147 points · HN #48063521

  25. 25

    GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)

    132 points · HN #48056749

  26. 26

    Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

    479 points · HN #48060054

  27. 27

    ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)

    279 points · HN #48059662

  28. 28

    All means are fair except solving the problem (yosefk.com)

    83 points · HN #48037655

  29. 29

    The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)

    173 points · HN #48042817

  30. 30

    A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)

    106 points · HN #48021023