HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-09

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (gowers.wordpress.com)

    728 points · HN #48071262

  2. 02

    Internet Archive Switzerland (blog.archive.org)

    702 points · HN #48074265

  3. 03

    Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML (twitter.com/trq212)

    528 points · HN #48071940

  4. 04

    OpenAI’s WebRTC problem (moq.dev)

    511 points · HN #48051951

  5. 05

    Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (twitter.com/jarredsumner)

    718 points · HN #48073680

  6. 06

    LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate (arxiv.org)

    479 points · HN #48073246

  7. 07

    I’ve banned query strings (chrismorgan.info)

    576 points · HN #48076173

  8. 08

    Mythical Man Month (martinfowler.com)

    400 points · HN #48046436

  9. 09

    Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels (kronis.dev)

    398 points · HN #48075366

  10. 10

    Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) (wiisfi.com)

    414 points · HN #48037760

  11. 11

    The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism (matduggan.com)

    425 points · HN #48074952

  12. 12

    EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" (cyberinsider.com)

    663 points · HN #48072190

  13. 13

    Zed Editor Theme-Builder (zed.dev)

    274 points · HN #48076651

  14. 14

    Teaching Claude Why (anthropic.com)

    266 points · HN #48066592

  15. 15

    Local privilege escalation via execve() (freebsd.org)

    225 points · HN #48077971

  16. 16

    Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable (nytimes.com)

    463 points · HN #48077126

  17. 17

    The React2Shell Story (lachlan.nz)

    225 points · HN #48065511

  18. 18

    Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms (github.com/nooga)

    292 points · HN #48076815

  19. 19

    America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy (apnews.com)

    185 points · HN #48037243

  20. 20

    CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers (copahost.com)

    147 points · HN #48076465

  21. 21

    What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting (quantamagazine.org)

    238 points · HN #48037517

  22. 22

    Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder) (lisyarus.github.io)

    139 points · HN #48048902

  23. 23

    Show HN: Rust but Lisp (github.com/thatxliner)

    218 points · HN #48078575

  24. 24

    Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging (pcmag.com)

    335 points · HN #48069192

  25. 25

    Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? (sigops.org)

    123 points · HN #48065254

  26. 26

    Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible (colorado.edu)

    111 points · HN #48040470

  27. 27

    Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video] (youtube.com)

    152 points · HN #48067786

  28. 28

    GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch (cyberinsider.com)

    355 points · HN #48075144

  29. 29

    How LEDs are made (2014) (sparkfun.com)

    149 points · HN #48048679

  30. 30

    PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes (stonetools.ghost.io)

    85 points · HN #48075528