Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-08

  1. The map that keeps Burning Man honest www.not-ship.com - 310 comments 626 points
  2. Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce www.reuters.com - 375 comments 622 points
  3. AI slop is killing online communities rmoff.net - 538 comments 610 points
  4. Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE www.openwall.com - 241 comments 595 points
  5. Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data www.theverge.com - 347 comments 566 points
  6. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers old.reddit.com - 206 comments 545 points
  7. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense paulkrugman.substack.com - 314 comments 493 points
  8. Agents need control flow, not more prompts bsuh.bearblog.dev - 213 comments 443 points
  9. Maybe you shouldn’t install new software for a bit xeiaso.net - 223 comments 430 points
  10. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal github.com - 101 comments 363 points
  11. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria www.nature.com - 283 comments 353 points
  12. I want to live like Costco people tastecooking.com - 592 comments 286 points
  13. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields deepmind.google - 122 comments 284 points
  14. Motherboard sales ‘collapse’ amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI www.tomshardware.com - 318 comments 269 points
  15. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude’s Thoughts into Text www.anthropic.com - 86 comments 259 points
  16. LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb www.theregister.com - 123 comments 214 points
  17. Brazil’s Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard www.elciudadano.com - 133 comments 170 points
  18. The Self-Cancelling Subscription predr.ag - 70 comments 167 points
  19. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview hacks.mozilla.org - 83 comments 166 points
  20. ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools - Instructure/Canvas www.bleepingcomputer.com - 2 comments 142 points
  21. Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect www.uchicagomedicine.org - 38 comments 136 points
  22. Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and “almost no false positives” arstechnica.com - 4 comments 122 points
  23. I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook blog.johnozbay.com - 162 comments 119 points
  24. Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA unsloth.ai - 22 comments 115 points
  25. ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters firethering.com - 54 comments 102 points
  26. Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus www.bcm.edu - 38 comments 96 points
  27. California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply kmph.com - 203 comments 95 points
  28. How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability blog.cloudflare.com - 72 comments 95 points
  29. Principles for agent-native CLIs twitter.com - 46 comments 93 points
  30. Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI ‘hallucinations’ found www.citizen.co.za - 19 comments 82 points