DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-05-18
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
- 02
Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
- 03
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
- 04
The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
- 05
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com/minishlab)
- 06
The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
- 07
We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
- 08
Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
- 09
We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
- 10
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025) (alexplescan.com)
- 11
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
- 12
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
- 13
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts (issinrealtime.org)
- 14
AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (static1.squarespace.com)
- 15
Jank now has its own custom IR (jank-lang.org)
- 16
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us (cloudflare.com)
- 17
It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
- 18
Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait (bloomberg.com)
- 19
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
- 20
Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
- 21
Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test (scientificamerican.com)
- 22
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound (111mb.de)
- 23
Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
- 24
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
- 25
Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now (haiku-os.org)
- 26
What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
- 27
Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting (radleybalko.substack.com)
- 28
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS (github.com/stephenlthorn)
- 29
A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007) (rutgers.edu)
- 30
Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries (science.org)