Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-03-04

  1. The Xkcd thing, now interactive editor.p5js.org - 154 comments 1214 points
  2. I’m reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services neilzone.co.uk - 557 comments 915 points
  3. MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max www.apple.com - 758 comments 742 points
  4. Claude’s Cycles - pdf www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu - 235 comments 586 points
  5. I’m losing the SEO battle for my own open source project twitter.com - 236 comments 467 points
  6. Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos - video www.youtube.com - 77 comments 466 points
  7. Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable grapheneos.social - 96 comments 395 points
  8. MacBook Air with M5 www.apple.com - 440 comments 388 points
  9. Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability www.ifixit.com - 170 comments 358 points
  10. India’s top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders www.bbc.com - 180 comments 346 points
  11. Don’t become an engineering manager newsletter.manager.dev - 247 comments 344 points
  12. GPT‑5.3 Instant openai.com - 262 comments 328 points
  13. Iran War Cost Tracker iran-cost-ticker.com - 378 comments 291 points
  14. Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London - video www.youtube.com - 161 comments 285 points
  15. Intel’s make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon www.tomshardware.com - 233 comments 274 points
  16. Arm’s Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance chipsandcheese.com - 156 comments 265 points
  17. Don’t make me talk to your chatbot raymyers.org - 197 comments 234 points
  18. Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR www.apple.com - 272 comments 221 points
  19. Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands www.wired.com - 71 comments 216 points
  20. Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 growtika.com - 162 comments 211 points
  21. GitHub having issues - resolved www.githubstatus.com - 141 comments 207 points
  22. When AI writes the software, who verifies it? leodemoura.github.io - 199 comments 205 points
  23. AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review www.theverge.com - 126 comments 177 points
  24. Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language elbowgreasegames.substack.com - 46 comments 166 points
  25. Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death www.politico.eu - 94 comments 163 points
  26. Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity terriblesoftware.org - 57 comments 153 points
  27. Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native tonsky.me - 180 comments 146 points
  28. Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal www.euronews.com - 28 comments 130 points
  29. TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe www.bbc.com - 79 comments 123 points
  30. An Interactive Intro to CRDTs - 2023 jakelazaroff.com - 22 comments 122 points