HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-14

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid (arkadiyt.com)

    1091 points · HN #48138136

  2. 02

    RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? (scottjg.com)

    699 points · HN #48137145

  3. 03

    First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 (calif.io)

    464 points · HN #48139219

  4. 04

    New Nginx Exploit (github.com/depthfirstdisclosures)

    444 points · HN #48138268

  5. 05

    A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline (president.mit.edu)

    621 points · HN #48136262

  6. 06

    Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged (github.com/oven-sh)

    708 points · HN #48132488

  7. 07

    Scorched Earth 2000 – Web (scorch2000.com)

    384 points · HN #48129694

  8. 08

    Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired (arstechnica.com)

    489 points · HN #48115438

  9. 09

    Claude for Small Business (anthropic.com)

    541 points · HN #48130950

  10. 10

    HDD Firmware Hacking (icode4.coffee)

    240 points · HN #48137553

  11. 11

    UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system (bbc.com)

    519 points · HN #48142251

  12. 12

    Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet (synacktiv.com)

    136 points · HN #48140953

  13. 13

    Computer Hobby Movement in Canada (yorku.ca)

    210 points · HN #48134743

  14. 14

    Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux (benstoneonline.com)

    161 points · HN #48097786

  15. 15

    What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing? (nobodywho.ooo)

    195 points · HN #48138332

  16. 16

    A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development (github.com/drcathicks)

    253 points · HN #48130679

  17. 17

    AI is making me dumb (jpain.io)

    556 points · HN #48139148

  18. 18

    Cisco workforce reductions (cisco.com)

    284 points · HN #48130123

  19. 19

    Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact (rsc.org)

    104 points · HN #48129934

  20. 20

    Claude for Legal (github.com/anthropics)

    225 points · HN #48141234

  21. 21

    Leaving the Physical World (eff.org)

    228 points · HN #48084012

  22. 22

    Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater (phys.org)

    102 points · HN #48100368

  23. 23

    The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018) (stanford.edu)

    107 points · HN #48139316

  24. 24

    Show HN: Nibble (github.com/glouw)

    102 points · HN #48130186

  25. 25

    USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought (agweb.com)

    254 points · HN #48134993

  26. 26

    Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit (tomshardware.com)

    292 points · HN #48130519

  27. 27

    Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads (theverge.com)

    195 points · HN #48126981

  28. 28

    Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay (numa.rs)

    125 points · HN #48133561

  29. 29

    Saying Goodbye to one line of APL (homewithinnowhere.com)

    97 points · HN #48093244

  30. 30

    Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011) (gynvael.coldwind.pl)

    137 points · HN #48108621