Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-27

  1. I bought Friendster for $30k – Here’s what I’m doing with it ca98am79.medium.com - 389 comments 749 points
  2. An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent’s confession is below twitter.com - 797 comments 646 points
  3. Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 asahilinux.org - 312 comments 618 points
  4. GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation anchor.host - 231 comments 596 points
  5. AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it www.koshyjohn.com - 334 comments 462 points
  6. Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race www.bbc.com - 256 comments 372 points
  7. Statecharts: hierarchical state machines statecharts.dev - 81 comments 297 points
  8. SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities openai.com - 161 comments 295 points
  9. Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet www.sentinelone.com - 52 comments 236 points
  10. Issue links now open in a popup github.com - 125 comments 235 points
  11. Waymo says can’t avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them road.cc - 356 comments 226 points
  12. Clay PCB Tutorial feministhackerspaces.cargo.site - 130 comments 220 points
  13. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch www.smithsonianmag.com - 59 comments 203 points
  14. Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0 dillo-browser.org - 26 comments 173 points
  15. The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color www.barwypowstania.pl - 54 comments 142 points
  16. Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics thermodynamicsbook.com - 35 comments 138 points
  17. Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter www.edenai.co - 67 comments 129 points
  18. TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough arkaung.github.io - 18 comments 129 points
  19. The Visible Zorker: Zork 1 eblong.com - 26 comments 127 points
  20. At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared www.cnn.com - 78 comments 116 points
  21. If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you evalcode.com - 74 comments 100 points
  22. Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft www.ft.com - 81 comments 98 points
  23. Chernobyl wildlife forty years on www.bbc.com - 20 comments 98 points
  24. The Prompt API developer.chrome.com - 62 comments 96 points
  25. Have you tried Clean Architecture as foundation for your AI project? news.ycombinator.com - 1 comments 94 points
  26. Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds news.mit.edu - 15 comments 87 points
  27. Show HN: AI memory with biological decay - 52% recall github.com - 37 comments 86 points
  28. FreeBSD Device Drivers Book github.com - 14 comments 80 points
  29. Two Athletes Break Sub-2-HR Marathon in Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 news.adidas.com - 1 comments 75 points
  30. AI can cost more than human workers now www.axios.com - 41 comments 68 points