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Hacker News (2026)

  1. What is a database transaction?

    240 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  2. Claude March 2026 usage promotion

    240 points • comment • mar 14, 2026

  3. Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

    240 points • comment • may 06, 2026

  4. The quiet resurgence of RF engineering

    240 points • comment • apr 25, 2026

  5. 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet

    240 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  6. Communities are not fungible

    240 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  7. Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown

    240 points • comment • apr 29, 2026

  8. Lights and Shadows (2020)

    240 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  9. An incoherent Rust

    240 points • comment • mar 23, 2026

  10. The Tulip Creative Computer

    240 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  11. Getting arrested in Japan

    240 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  12. GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano

    240 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  13. Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming

    240 points • comment • apr 08, 2026

  14. Make.ts

    239 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  15. Sandwich Bill of Materials

    239 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  16. The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe

    239 points • comment • apr 19, 2026

  17. Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight

    239 points • comment • feb 23, 2026

  18. Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit

    239 points • comment • apr 14, 2026

  19. The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future

    239 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  20. Flightradar24 for Ships

    239 points • comment • mar 01, 2026

  21. Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews

    239 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  22. Learning from context is harder than we thought

    239 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  23. Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019

    238 points • comment • feb 15, 2026

  24. The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'

    238 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  25. Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)

    238 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  26. FFmpeg 101 (2024)

    238 points • comment • mar 21, 2026

  27. Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw

    238 points • comment • feb 05, 2026

  28. Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate on a Brother printer with Certbot

    238 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  29. Parametric CAD in Rust

    238 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  30. Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit

    238 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  31. Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch

    238 points • comment • apr 26, 2026

  32. Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps

    238 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  33. O(x)Caml in Space

    238 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  34. Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups

    238 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  35. Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

    238 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  36. Clay PCB Tutorial

    238 points • comment • apr 26, 2026

  37. The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists

    238 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  38. The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer

    238 points • comment • mar 13, 2026

  39. JPEG XL Test Page

    238 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  40. OpenAI Acquires TBPN

    237 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  41. I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor

    237 points • comment • jan 26, 2026

  42. NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address

    237 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  43. AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it

    237 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  44. Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

    237 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  45. Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw

    237 points • comment • may 11, 2026

  46. Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

    237 points • comment • apr 07, 2026

  47. Issue links now open in a popup

    237 points • comment • apr 26, 2026

  48. A Lament for Aperture

    237 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  49. Write up of my homebrew CPU build

    237 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  50. LMArena is a cancer on AI

    237 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  51. Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter

    237 points • comment • feb 24, 2026

  52. Have Taken Up Farming

    237 points • comment • jan 15, 2026

  53. Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

    237 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  54. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?

    237 points • comment • feb 03, 2026

  55. Time Station Emulator

    237 points • comment • jan 27, 2026

  56. Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts

    237 points • comment • jan 14, 2026

  57. Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV

    237 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  58. Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer

    236 points • comment • apr 18, 2026

  59. Zotero 8

    236 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  60. Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track

    236 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  61. My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)

    236 points • comment • jan 29, 2026

  62. Wacli – WhatsApp CLI

    236 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  63. A Theory of Deep Learning

    236 points • comment • may 05, 2026

  64. Attention Residuals

    236 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  65. Palantir has no place in UK public services

    236 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  66. Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs

    236 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  67. DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership

    236 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  68. Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

    235 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  69. AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart

    235 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  70. Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks

    235 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  71. The tech monoculture is finally breaking

    235 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  72. 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet

    235 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  73. Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

    235 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  74. Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer

    235 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  75. DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public

    235 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  76. Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase

    235 points • comment • apr 10, 2026

  77. Linux is an interpreter

    235 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  78. Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)

    235 points • comment • apr 12, 2026

  79. Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)

    235 points • comment • jan 02, 2026

  80. Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai

    235 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  81. Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter

    234 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  82. TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan

    234 points • comment • feb 09, 2026

  83. More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams

    234 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  84. Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site

    234 points • comment • may 15, 2026

  85. What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025

    234 points • comment • jan 13, 2026

  86. Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models

    234 points • comment • feb 08, 2026

  87. Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests

    234 points • comment • may 01, 2026

  88. We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

    234 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  89. YC's Biggest Scandals

    234 points • comment • may 10, 2026

  90. DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

    234 points • comment • may 16, 2026

  91. Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit

    234 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  92. Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers

    234 points • comment • jan 28, 2026

  93. Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued

    234 points • comment • mar 17, 2026

  94. Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame

    234 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  95. Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops

    234 points • comment • apr 11, 2026

  96. Grief and the AI split

    234 points • comment • mar 12, 2026

  97. Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp

    234 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  98. Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure

    233 points • comment • apr 03, 2026

  99. Giving university exams in the age of chatbots

    233 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  100. A new C++ back end for ocamlc

    233 points • comment • apr 01, 2026