DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-05-17
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)
- 02
Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (blog.mozilla.org)
- 03
A nicer voltmeter clock (lcamtuf.substack.com)
- 04
Colossus: The Forbin Project (wikipedia.org)
- 05
I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com/tech4bot)
- 06
Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon (unplannedobsolescence.com)
- 07
Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)
- 08
CUDA Books (github.com/alternbits)
- 09
GenCAD (gencad.github.io)
- 10
Hindenburg’s Smoking Room (airships.net)
- 11
High-Entropy Alloy (wikipedia.org)
- 12
Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (maurycyz.com)
- 13
Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) (rogerebert.com)
- 14
Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)
- 15
Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)
- 16
AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)
- 17
Halt and Catch Fire (unstack.io)
- 18
Prolog Coding Horror (metalevel.at)
- 19
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)
- 20
A molecule with half-Möbius topology (science.org)
- 21
Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely (idahonews.com)
- 22
Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] (fosdem.org)
- 23
Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)
- 24
C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For (lucisqr.substack.com)
- 25
AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise (thestateofbrand.com)
- 26
The Third Hard Problem (mmapped.blog)
- 27
VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) (ieee.org)
- 28
Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets (quantamagazine.org)
- 29
Illusions of understanding in the sciences (springer.com)
- 30
WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)