Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-06-11

  1. Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight mohkohn.co.uk - 512 comments 1134 points
  2. πFS github.com - 181 comments 755 points
  3. I’m Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” and new book “Incorruptible” – AMA news.ycombinator.com - 492 comments 671 points
  4. PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you pgdog.dev - 223 comments 468 points
  5. Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land www.tomshardware.com - 3 comments 456 points
  6. Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable techcrunch.com - 386 comments 445 points
  7. AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere lwn.net - 167 comments 412 points
  8. Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use github.com - 282 comments 403 points
  9. DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation blog.google - 81 comments 306 points
  10. Anthropic’s model naming, extrapolated samwilkinson.io - 90 comments 305 points
  11. Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones dronexl.co - 98 comments 270 points
  12. Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM www.adafruit.com - 275 comments 267 points
  13. US Consumer Price Index up 4.2% www.bls.gov - 288 comments 261 points
  14. GeoLibre 1.0 geolibre.app - 21 comments 244 points
  15. All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened - 1872–2026 jivx.com - 79 comments 240 points
  16. How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science spectrum.ieee.org - 65 comments 236 points
  17. Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative? news.ycombinator.com - 268 comments 224 points
  18. Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications burr.apache.org - 107 comments 222 points
  19. Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps www.extend.ai - 53 comments 212 points
  20. A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent blue41.com - 178 comments 186 points
  21. Notes on DeepSeek news.ycombinator.com - 118 comments 179 points
  22. I Hate - Most Keyboard ‘Fn’ Keys danq.me - 195 comments 178 points
  23. Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely www.matteast.io - 180 comments 178 points
  24. Authentication issues related to API requests www.githubstatus.com - 32 comments 160 points
  25. Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee www.smithsonianmag.com - 91 comments 156 points
  26. Policy on the AI Exponential darioamodei.com - 211 comments 152 points
  27. ICE denies having a protester database. A letter to Congress sheds more light www.npr.org - 68 comments 144 points
  28. Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage github.com - 36 comments 128 points
  29. Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents techcrunch.com - 124 comments 99 points
  30. The Case for Free Online Books - 2014 from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com - 82 comments 92 points