HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-15

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (gutenberg.org)

    1239 points · HN #48150431

  2. 02

    I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis (twitter.com/mitchellh)

    2105 points · HN #48153379

  3. 03

    A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 (projectzero.google)

    448 points · HN #48148460

  4. 04

    Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app (openai.com)

    486 points · HN #48140529

  5. 05

    The sigmoids won't save you (astralcodexten.com)

    308 points · HN #48147021

  6. 06

    Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California (arstechnica.com)

    596 points · HN #48152994

  7. 07

    A few words on DS4 (antirez.com)

    440 points · HN #48142108

  8. 08

    U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app (macdailynews.com)

    477 points · HN #48151383

  9. 09

    Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake (gradexp.xyz)

    205 points · HN #48136981

  10. 10

    New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references (twitter.com/tdietterich)

    659 points · HN #48140922

  11. 11

    Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop (samismith.com)

    539 points · HN #48146129

  12. 12

    ASCII by Jason Scott (textfiles.com)

    223 points · HN #48148726

  13. 13

    Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying (tmctmt.com)

    613 points · HN #48143880

  14. 14

    Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image (github.com/neilsonnn)

    197 points · HN #48150069

  15. 15

    Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git (radicle.dev)

    274 points · HN #48147603

  16. 16

    Show HN: A nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator (github.com/gdevic)

    119 points · HN #48151237

  17. 17

    The Zulip Foundation (zulip.com)

    314 points · HN #48152168

  18. 18

    O(x)Caml in Space (gazagnaire.org)

    246 points · HN #48147058

  19. 19

    Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer (ieee.org)

    225 points · HN #48146908

  20. 20

    RISC-V Router (start9.com)

    152 points · HN #48140541

  21. 21

    Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha (tristandc.com)

    268 points · HN #48144380

  22. 22

    ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline (twitter.com/baseballot)

    390 points · HN #48152553

  23. 23

    How to Write to SSDs [pdf] (vldb.org)

    214 points · HN #48154711

  24. 24

    More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions (vt.edu)

    253 points · HN #48142193

  25. 25

    Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts (theregister.com)

    313 points · HN #48142188

  26. 26

    Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data (github.com/gyroflow)

    179 points · HN #48107766

  27. 27

    Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water' (cnbc.com)

    220 points · HN #48151767

  28. 28

    Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks (fastcompany.com)

    400 points · HN #48148337

  29. 29

    OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control (openvehicles.com)

    99 points · HN #48141732

  30. 30

    Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints (antonleicht.me)

    228 points · HN #48143284