Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-26

  1. Trump fires NSF’s oversight board www.science.org - 229 comments 438 points
  2. Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem www.scientificamerican.com - 186 comments 304 points
  3. USB Cheat Sheet - 2022 fabiensanglard.net - 55 comments 268 points
  4. Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish blog.matthewbrunelle.com - 145 comments 254 points
  5. The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it newrepublic.com - 311 comments 233 points
  6. Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain - Markdown and Git github.com - 107 comments 230 points
  7. Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor github.com - 74 comments 230 points
  8. Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day news.ycombinator.com - 93 comments 199 points
  9. Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer’s disease? freakonomics.com - 100 comments 197 points
  10. Martin Galway’s music source files from 1980’s Commodore 64 games github.com - 25 comments 172 points
  11. Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s - 2020 fabiensanglard.net - 29 comments 158 points
  12. Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center boilingsteam.com - 119 comments 149 points
  13. GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty openai.com - 101 comments 143 points
  14. Simulacrum of Knowledge Work blog.happyfellow.dev - 55 comments 139 points
  15. Can you stop beans from making you gassy? www.seriouseats.com - 116 comments 138 points
  16. Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI victortaelin.github.io - 40 comments 135 points
  17. A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp github.com - 45 comments 124 points
  18. Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known www.nbcnews.com - 159 comments 122 points
  19. EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs juraj.bednar.io - 38 comments 114 points
  20. America’s Geothermal Breakthrough oilprice.com - 121 comments 106 points
  21. Hokusai and Tesselations dl.ndl.go.jp - 14 comments 102 points
  22. Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill fosstodon.org - 32 comments 95 points
  23. Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp coalton-lang.github.io - 39 comments 91 points
  24. Jumping into cold water can stop your heart jorgenmelau.substack.com - 36 comments 86 points
  25. Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x blisscast.wordpress.com - 61 comments 76 points
  26. Behind-the-Scenes of MacBook Neo Introduction Video www.youtube.com - 7 comments 74 points
  27. A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults - pdf - 2023 allbrainsbelong.org - 64 comments 65 points
  28. What’s missing in the ‘agentic’ story: a well-defined user agent role www.mnot.net - 61 comments 58 points
  29. Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch www.nytimes.com - 44 comments 56 points
  30. The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It’s Forgetting How to Code techtrenches.dev - 22 comments 55 points