DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-05-12
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
- 02
Googlebook (googlebook.google)
- 03
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
- 04
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
- 05
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com/nmitchem)
- 06
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
- 07
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
- 08
How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
- 09
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
- 10
The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
- 11
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
- 12
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
- 13
Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
- 14
Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
- 15
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
- 16
Interaction Models (thinkingmachines.ai)
- 17
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
- 18
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
- 19
Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
- 20
Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
- 21
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
- 22
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
- 23
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
- 24
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
- 25
Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
- 26
As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
- 27
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
- 28
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
- 29
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
- 30
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)