HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-06-04

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    They’re made out of weights (maxleiter.com)

    1529 points · HN #48391611

  2. 02

    Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (dailycal.org)

    834 points · HN #48392004

  3. 03

    VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)

    689 points · HN #48398055

  4. 04

    Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery (github.com/anthropics)

    539 points · HN #48403980

  5. 05

    I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it (kasra.blog)

    402 points · HN #48392343

  6. 06

    Retro-Tech Parenting (havenweb.org)

    353 points · HN #48400588

  7. 07

    Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot (fieggen.com)

    610 points · HN #48397028

  8. 08

    The ways we contain Claude across products (anthropic.com)

    230 points · HN #48392082

  9. 09

    When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement (anthropic.com)

    534 points · HN #48400842

  10. 10

    U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse (yale.edu)

    646 points · HN #48392232

  11. 11

    KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei (github.com/huawei-csl)

    143 points · HN #48399974

  12. 12

    Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants (arxiv.org)

    225 points · HN #48405931

  13. 13

    Gaussian Point Splatting (momentsingraphics.de)

    194 points · HN #48396792

  14. 14

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model (wikipedia.org)

    235 points · HN #48373642

  15. 15

    Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites (uruky.com)

    236 points · HN #48396004

  16. 16

    Samurai City (worksinprogress.co)

    217 points · HN #48366090

  17. 17

    UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases (aoav.org.uk)

    383 points · HN #48395938

  18. 18

    Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts (nbcboston.com)

    165 points · HN #48362255

  19. 19

    French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56 (france24.com)

    457 points · HN #48397233

  20. 20

    Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years (fagnerbrack.com)

    323 points · HN #48347483

  21. 21

    Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026 (electrek.co)

    405 points · HN #48399332

  22. 22

    Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history (apnews.com)

    179 points · HN #48368725

  23. 23

    Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses (buchodi.com)

    332 points · HN #48403588

  24. 24

    Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers (acs.org)

    106 points · HN #48404905

  25. 25

    A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf] (worrydream.com)

    110 points · HN #48390400

  26. 26

    Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images (sigwait.org)

    89 points · HN #48360414

  27. 27

    JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil (danielmangum.com)

    67 points · HN #48375064

  28. 28

    Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding (googleblog.com)

    107 points · HN #48390688

  29. 29

    Patching my guitar amp's firmware (mforney.org)

    148 points · HN #48349404

  30. 30

    Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager (cern.ch)

    64 points · HN #48403753