Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-27

  1. Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War www.anthropic.com - 802 comments 1540 points
  2. Layoffs at Block twitter.com - 664 comments 637 points
  3. Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users news.ycombinator.com - 231 comments 620 points
  4. Anthropic ditches its core safety promise www.cnn.com - 3 comments 548 points
  5. Nano Banana 2: Google’s latest AI image generation model blog.google - 510 comments 546 points
  6. Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? read.technically.dev - 358 comments 361 points
  7. What Claude Code chooses amplifying.ai - 144 comments 357 points
  8. AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks - pdf www.ndss-symposium.org - 162 comments 341 points
  9. Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line gitlab.com - 73 comments 300 points
  10. Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers endowment.dev - 141 comments 230 points
  11. What does " 2>&1 " mean? stackoverflow.com - 124 comments 219 points
  12. Google workers seek ‘red lines’ on military A.I., echoing Anthropic www.nytimes.com - 97 comments 219 points
  13. Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage www.idc.com - 207 comments 213 points
  14. In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% bsky.app - 130 comments 202 points
  15. You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account www.heltweg.org - 291 comments 197 points
  16. Palm OS User Interface Guidelines - 2003 - pdf cs.uml.edu - 86 comments 179 points
  17. BuildKit: Docker’s Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything tuananh.net - 62 comments 167 points
  18. He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network calmatters.org - 59 comments 152 points
  19. This time is different shkspr.mobi - 236 comments 147 points
  20. OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation - 2025 osmand.net - 46 comments 144 points
  21. Google Street View in 2026 tech.marksblogg.com - 101 comments 136 points
  22. The Hunt for Dark Breakfast moultano.wordpress.com - 47 comments 131 points
  23. Twitch: “Hey, come back! This commercial break can’t play while you’re away.” twitter.com - 99 comments 129 points
  24. America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice garymarcus.substack.com - 79 comments 129 points
  25. Palantir’s AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries www.dropsitenews.com - 50 comments 126 points
  26. Story of XZ Backdoor - video www.youtube.com - 46 comments 124 points
  27. Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win www.hollywoodreporter.com - 85 comments 108 points
  28. Just-bash: Bash for Agents github.com - 67 comments 108 points
  29. Launch HN: Cardboard - YC W26 – Agentic video editor www.usecardboard.com - 55 comments 107 points
  30. A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives bookriot.com - 62 comments 105 points