Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-07

  1. Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? www.newyorker.com - 481 comments 1253 points
  2. Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates github.com - 551 comments 988 points
  3. I won’t download your app. The web version is a-ok www.0xsid.com - 503 comments 860 points
  4. France pulls last gold held in US www.mining.com - 320 comments 580 points
  5. The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok bramcohen.com - 452 comments 531 points
  6. Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game www.wesnoth.org - 127 comments 460 points
  7. A cryptography engineer’s perspective on quantum computing timelines words.filippo.io - 177 comments 436 points
  8. What being ripped off taught me belief.horse - 198 comments 387 points
  9. Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS github.com - 154 comments 348 points
  10. 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn’t have a smartphone twitter.com - 399 comments 346 points
  11. German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups krebsonsecurity.com - 140 comments 293 points
  12. Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure tboteproject.com - 109 comments 293 points
  13. Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed www.osnews.com - 139 comments 290 points
  14. Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once www.govauctions.app - 76 comments 264 points
  15. Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents www.freestyle.sh - 143 comments 257 points
  16. Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division www.stephendiehl.com - 171 comments 238 points
  17. Is Germany’s gold safe in New York ? www.dw.com - 258 comments 233 points
  18. Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute www.anthropic.com - 97 comments 225 points
  19. After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites - 2025 blog.ericgoldman.org - 116 comments 174 points
  20. Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go github.com - 57 comments 156 points
  21. AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart www.showbiz411.com - 227 comments 145 points
  22. A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days photon.codes - 90 comments 142 points
  23. The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign www.newyorker.com - 196 comments 125 points
  24. Number in man page titles e.g. sleep- 3 lalitm.com - 74 comments 122 points
  25. Peptides: where to begin? www.science.org - 147 comments 115 points
  26. Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C github.com - 26 comments 101 points
  27. Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others www.psypost.org - 115 comments 98 points
  28. Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal github.com - 28 comments 96 points
  29. Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder? news.ycombinator.com - 61 comments 88 points
  30. Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different news.ycombinator.com - 42 comments 88 points