Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-09

  1. Git commands I run before reading any code piechowski.io - 408 comments 1971 points
  2. I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii bryankeller.github.io - 255 comments 1481 points
  3. Veracrypt project update sourceforge.net - 437 comments 1195 points
  4. US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology www.cnet.com - 399 comments 693 points
  5. Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones www.skoda-storyboard.com - 559 comments 561 points
  6. LittleSnitch for Linux obdev.at - 170 comments 542 points
  7. Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates www.404media.co - 192 comments 520 points
  8. They’re made out of meat - 1991 www.terrybisson.com - 145 comments 504 points
  9. ML promises to be profoundly weird aphyr.com - 466 comments 471 points
  10. Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? www.ishormuzopenyet.com - 143 comments 361 points
  11. I’ve been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue nickvecchioni.github.io - 165 comments 342 points
  12. Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence ai.meta.com - 324 comments 322 points
  13. Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example kalmanfilter.net - 41 comments 313 points
  14. I’ve sold out mariozechner.at - 180 comments 289 points
  15. MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU arxiv.org - 51 comments 288 points
  16. John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement www.thedrive.com - 73 comments 281 points
  17. USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers werwolv.net - 31 comments 272 points
  18. Muse Spark – Meta Superintelligence Labs meta.ai - 5 comments 192 points
  19. Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire www.ft.com - 250 comments 156 points
  20. Claude Managed Agents claude.com - 68 comments 155 points
  21. Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service www.hatchmag.com - 31 comments 142 points
  22. Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets www.theguardian.com - 89 comments 123 points
  23. Open Source Security at Astral astral.sh - 16 comments 118 points
  24. One item purchased, ten emails joshghent.com - 94 comments 117 points
  25. Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read oj-hn.com - 132 comments 112 points
  26. Expanding Swift’s IDE Support swift.org - 47 comments 108 points
  27. Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS github.com - 30 comments 99 points
  28. The AI Great Leap Forward leehanchung.github.io - 45 comments 94 points
  29. Show HN: We fingerprinted 178 AI models’ writing styles and similarity clusters rival.tips - 23 comments 76 points
  30. Mario and Earendil lucumr.pocoo.org - 39 comments 64 points