Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-15

  1. Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid arkadiyt.com - 425 comments 829 points
  2. Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged github.com - 697 comments 634 points
  3. A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline president.mit.edu - 668 comments 602 points
  4. RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? scottjg.com - 142 comments 584 points
  5. AI is making me dumb jpain.io - 286 comments 483 points
  6. New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references twitter.com - 150 comments 483 points
  7. New Nginx Exploit github.com - 77 comments 366 points
  8. Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying tmctmt.com - 195 comments 357 points
  9. First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 blog.calif.io - 80 comments 353 points
  10. Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude www.tomshardware.com - 168 comments 322 points
  11. Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app openai.com - 162 comments 320 points
  12. A few words on DS4 antirez.com - 107 comments 293 points
  13. USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought www.agweb.com - 167 comments 247 points
  14. Ontario auditors find doctors’ AI note takers routinely blow basic facts www.theregister.com - 104 comments 224 points
  15. Computer Hobby Movement in Canada museum.eecs.yorku.ca - 76 comments 200 points
  16. Sam Altman’s Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI’s IPO www.wsj.com - 154 comments 196 points
  17. More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions news.vt.edu - 73 comments 188 points
  18. The AI zombification of universities www.thenewcritic.com - 187 comments 184 points
  19. HDD Firmware Hacking icode4.coffee - 23 comments 183 points
  20. Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale www.wired.com - 192 comments 178 points
  21. How Claude Code works in large codebases claude.com - 115 comments 159 points
  22. Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt xeiaso.net - 41 comments 154 points
  23. UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system www.bbc.com - 45 comments 149 points
  24. Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints writing.antonleicht.me - 110 comments 143 points
  25. What’s in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what’s still missing? nobodywho.ooo - 43 comments 141 points
  26. Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation www.anthropic.com - 99 comments 121 points
  27. RISC-V Router router.start9.com - 60 comments 120 points
  28. Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo www.upi.com - 262 comments 119 points
  29. Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M www.theregister.com - 14 comments 119 points
  30. Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay numa.rs - 41 comments 117 points