HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-11

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)

    1097 points · HN #48100706

  2. 02

    I'm going back to writing code by hand (k10s.dev)

    1038 points · HN #48090029

  3. 03

    UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025) (ucla.edu)

    448 points · HN #48098261

  4. 04

    Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory (jola.dev)

    578 points · HN #48089091

  5. 05

    GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values (about.gitlab.com)

    703 points · HN #48100500

  6. 06

    Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004) (slate.com)

    335 points · HN #48060077

  7. 07

    Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message (privacyguides.net)

    637 points · HN #48092028

  8. 08

    Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics (ratty-term.org)

    678 points · HN #48093100

  9. 09

    The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024) (openculture.com)

    364 points · HN #48090521

  10. 10

    An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs (jamesshore.com)

    380 points · HN #48089289

  11. 11

    Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability (haxx.se)

    703 points · HN #48091737

  12. 12

    Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s (cocoawithlove.com)

    263 points · HN #48085685

  13. 13

    Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw (nytimes.com)

    244 points · HN #48094641

  14. 14

    I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night (martin.sh)

    276 points · HN #48100662

  15. 15

    CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler (nvlabs.github.io)

    424 points · HN #48096692

  16. 16

    Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career (seangoedecke.com)

    498 points · HN #48095550

  17. 17

    Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years (nytimes.com)

    180 points · HN #48067698

  18. 18

    Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale (interfaze.ai)

    164 points · HN #48097078

  19. 19

    Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory (github.com/mamba-studio)

    166 points · HN #48099616

  20. 20

    AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs (duarteocarmo.com)

    140 points · HN #48065429

  21. 21

    Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers (andreaturchet.github.io)

    200 points · HN #48096842

  22. 22

    I hate soldering (user8.bearblog.dev)

    264 points · HN #48059831

  23. 23

    How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings? (dunkels.com)

    165 points · HN #48089049

  24. 24

    Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer (tautme.github.io)

    176 points · HN #48058260

  25. 25

    Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria (wired.com)

    176 points · HN #48070571

  26. 26

    Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning (imtomt.github.io)

    134 points · HN #48062977

  27. 27

    A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous (nytimes.com)

    264 points · HN #48093043

  28. 28

    dBase: 1979-2026 (delphinightmares.substack.com)

    130 points · HN #48058757

  29. 29

    The rise and fall of snake oil (historytoday.com)

    79 points · HN #48051555

  30. 30

    7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010) (might.net)

    111 points · HN #48091085