Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-18

  1. Claude Design www.anthropic.com - 650 comments 990 points
  2. Isaac Asimov: The Last Question - 1956 hex.ooo - 277 comments 698 points
  3. Ban the sale of precise geolocation www.lawfaremedia.org - 173 comments 681 points
  4. Measuring Claude 4.7’s tokenizer costs www.claudecodecamp.com - 411 comments 592 points
  5. Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines github.com - 93 comments 308 points
  6. All 12 moonwalkers had “lunar hay fever” from dust smelling like gunpowder - 2018 www.esa.int - 181 comments 303 points
  7. Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages www.iqiipi.com - 182 comments 261 points
  8. NASA Force nasaforce.gov - 262 comments 260 points
  9. Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin www.thehistoryblog.com - 100 comments 222 points
  10. Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ www.theguardian.com - 124 comments 201 points
  11. Tesla tells HW3 owner to ‘be patient’ after 7 years of waiting for FSD electrek.co - 153 comments 195 points
  12. NIST gives up enriching most CVEs risky.biz - 46 comments 193 points
  13. Spending 3 months coding by hand miguelconner.substack.com - 189 comments 184 points
  14. How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll www.investigate-europe.eu - 63 comments 180 points
  15. Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects twitter.com - 140 comments 178 points
  16. Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock github.com - 71 comments 178 points
  17. Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage blog.healthchecks.io - 67 comments 164 points
  18. “cat readme.txt” is not safe if you use iTerm2 blog.calif.io - 84 comments 163 points
  19. A simplified model of Fil-C www.corsix.org - 79 comments 159 points
  20. Slop Cop awnist.com - 94 comments 149 points
  21. Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo - 2010 prologue.blogs.archives.gov - 45 comments 142 points
  22. FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer www.nongnu.org - 77 comments 140 points
  23. Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers? www.thenation.com - 100 comments 119 points
  24. Experiment with ICEYE Open Data www.iceye.com - 14 comments 110 points
  25. Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents isitagentready.com - 167 comments 105 points
  26. We reproduced Anthropic’s Mythos findings with public models blog.vidocsecurity.com - 56 comments 99 points
  27. Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals victorpoughon.github.io - 10 comments 96 points
  28. US tech firms lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret www.theguardian.com - 12 comments 79 points
  29. EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted xcancel.com - 28 comments 74 points
  30. Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units electrek.co - 23 comments 69 points