Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-04

  1. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons www.drive.com.au - 388 comments 686 points
  2. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro github.com - 157 comments 416 points
  3. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag www.smithsonianmag.com - 327 comments 376 points
  4. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth partyon.xyz - 114 comments 354 points
  5. Agentic Coding Is a Trap larsfaye.com - 248 comments 347 points
  6. A desktop made for one isene.org - 151 comments 331 points
  7. Why TUIs are back wiki.alcidesfonseca.com - 336 comments 324 points
  8. Let’s Buy Spirit Air letsbuyspiritair.com - 304 comments 317 points
  9. Metal Gear Solid 2’s source code has been leaked on 4chan www.thegamer.com - 123 comments 263 points
  10. Southwest Headquarters Tour katherinemichel.github.io - 73 comments 243 points
  11. For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day christophermeiklejohn.com - 172 comments 217 points
  12. Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs www.tomshardware.com - 249 comments 216 points
  13. The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility xogium.me - 86 comments 209 points
  14. How far behind is each major Chromium browser? chromium-drift.pages.dev - 59 comments 178 points
  15. Show HN: Apple’s SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web github.com - 42 comments 171 points
  16. The ‘Hidden’ Costs of Great Abstractions jdgr.net - 54 comments 155 points
  17. Security through obscurity is not bad mobeigi.com - 175 comments 154 points
  18. Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors citizenlab.ca - 9 comments 143 points
  19. Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security www.ft.com - 171 comments 122 points
  20. Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study sciencex.com - 95 comments 119 points
  21. LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction www.lelanthran.com - 106 comments 113 points
  22. Alert-driven monitoring simpleobservability.com - 40 comments 112 points
  23. Humanoid Robot Actuators www.firgelli.com - 38 comments 112 points
  24. Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery newsroom.porsche.com - 50 comments 111 points
  25. I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA - video www.youtube.com - 25 comments 99 points
  26. Make your own microforest - 2025 ambrook.com - 17 comments 92 points
  27. Introduction to Atom validator.w3.org - 29 comments 89 points
  28. Show HN: Ableton Live MCP github.com - 52 comments 82 points
  29. Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services github.com - 24 comments 80 points
  30. The Oscars just banned AI from winning acting and writing awards gizmodo.com - 49 comments 72 points