Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-24

  1. The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone’s data protection spectrum.ieee.org - 1046 comments 1374 points
  2. Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI ladybird.org - 624 comments 1141 points
  3. Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras techcrunch.com - 423 comments 634 points
  4. Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel www.chrisbrunet.com - 95 comments 543 points
  5. Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies www.ewtnnews.com - 429 comments 540 points
  6. Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran www.nytimes.com - 206 comments 481 points
  7. Hetzner - European hosting provider to increase prices by up to 38% old.reddit.com - 390 comments 442 points
  8. Magical Mushroom – Europe’s first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer magicalmushroom.com - 122 comments 372 points
  9. FreeBSD doesn’t have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me vladimir.varank.in - 268 comments 332 points
  10. ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 www.reuters.com - 87 comments 318 points
  11. Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight thenevadaindependent.com - 97 comments 243 points
  12. AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says gizmodo.com - 232 comments 241 points
  13. Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app github.com - 51 comments 235 points
  14. The peculiar case of Japanese web design - 2022 sabrinas.space - 112 comments 234 points
  15. A simple web we own rsdoiel.github.io - 143 comments 211 points
  16. Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn’t love hackernews.love - 145 comments 208 points
  17. Blood test boosts Alzheimer’s diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows medicalxpress.com - 54 comments 177 points
  18. Terence Tao, at 8 years old - 1984 - pdf gwern.net - 43 comments 174 points
  19. “Car Wash” test with 53 models opper.ai - 185 comments 172 points
  20. Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% docs.hetzner.com - 119 comments 169 points
  21. UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A - 2025 forums.atariage.com - 52 comments 166 points
  22. You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer twitter.com - 132 comments 163 points
  23. Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons www.guitarworld.com - 68 comments 157 points
  24. Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer - 2017 to GPT-5.3 (2026) llm-timeline.com - 54 comments 153 points
  25. Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot - ROS2, RTK GPS sowbot.co.uk - 41 comments 146 points
  26. I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270 dork.dev - 25 comments 138 points
  27. Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems writings.stephenwolfram.com - 67 comments 133 points
  28. femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation github.com - 16 comments 133 points
  29. What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust smallcultfollowing.com - 140 comments 126 points
  30. Writing code is cheap now simonwillison.net - 178 comments 124 points