HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-05-21

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart (valhovey.github.io)

    1200 points · HN #48225297

  2. 02

    Flipper One – we need your help (flipper.net)

    1266 points · HN #48220647

  3. 03

    We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot (blog.google)

    632 points · HN #48220105

  4. 04

    Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines (changs.co.uk)

    432 points · HN #48220696

  5. 05

    Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) (simbastack.com)

    471 points · HN #48222733

  6. 06

    Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored (ieee.org)

    424 points · HN #48220639

  7. 07

    Google's Antigravity bait and switch (0xsid.com)

    771 points · HN #48222529

  8. 08

    Was my $48K GPU server worth it? (rosmine.ai)

    571 points · HN #48184402

  9. 09

    Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD (crocidb.com)

    374 points · HN #48227397

  10. 10

    Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods (techcrunch.com)

    369 points · HN #48225426

  11. 11

    Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police (prismreports.org)

    492 points · HN #48226588

  12. 12

    Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations (noslopgrenade.com)

    717 points · HN #48219992

  13. 13

    Using Kagi Search with Low Vision (veroniiiica.com)

    269 points · HN #48227860

  14. 14

    Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)

    390 points · HN #48223362

  15. 15

    News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism (niemanlab.org)

    333 points · HN #48225838

  16. 16

    AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale (axelk.ee)

    824 points · HN #48222383

  17. 17

    Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (github.com/kageroumado)

    428 points · HN #48215979

  18. 18

    The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] (gwern.net)

    304 points · HN #48216016

  19. 19

    Vivaldi 8.0 (vivaldi.com)

    371 points · HN #48219060

  20. 20

    Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans (hollywoodreporter.com)

    182 points · HN #48225357

  21. 21

    Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 (twitter.com/nottombrown)

    307 points · HN #48214017

  22. 22

    Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023) (jvns.ca)

    117 points · HN #48190373

  23. 23

    Haskell Foundation 2026 Update (haskell.org)

    182 points · HN #48216983

  24. 24

    BBEdit 16 (barebones.com)

    321 points · HN #48226944

  25. 25

    Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team (runtm.com)

    103 points · HN #48225040

  26. 26

    Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)

    263 points · HN #48216278

  27. 27

    Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (yes-we-scan.app)

    132 points · HN #48177467

  28. 28

    Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)

    227 points · HN #48213651

  29. 29

    New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output (redhat.com)

    143 points · HN #48188302

  30. 30

    OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (wsj.com)

    206 points · HN #48210226