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Hacker News (2026)

  1. Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds

    87 points • comment • apr 26, 2026

  2. A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears

    87 points • comment • apr 09, 2026

  3. Coding on Paper

    86 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  4. Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case

    86 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  5. The day I discovered type design

    86 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  6. We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

    86 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  7. The PGP problem (2019)

    86 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  8. For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa

    86 points • comment • apr 30, 2026

  9. Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity

    86 points • comment • apr 27, 2026

  10. The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) Berkeley DB

    86 points • comment • feb 02, 2026

  11. A header-only C vector database library

    86 points • comment • feb 14, 2026

  12. Discord Incident – Resolved

    86 points • comment • may 08, 2026

  13. Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine

    86 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  14. Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins

    86 points • comment • mar 28, 2026

  15. Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor

    86 points • comment • mar 22, 2026

  16. Mixing Visual and Textual Code

    86 points • comment • jun 25, 2026

  17. Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026

    86 points • comment • apr 28, 2026

  18. Lisp in Vim (2019)

    86 points • comment • may 23, 2026

  19. How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission

    86 points • comment • jan 08, 2026

  20. Show HN: TurboQuant for vector search – 2-4 bit compression

    86 points • comment • mar 29, 2026

  21. Thunderbird Littering My Home

    86 points • comment • jun 08, 2026

  22. In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident

    86 points • comment • may 17, 2026

  23. Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter

    86 points • comment • may 25, 2026

  24. Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

    86 points • comment • jun 07, 2026

  25. How Thomas Mann Wrote the Magic Mountain

    86 points • comment • jan 04, 2026

  26. AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice

    86 points • comment • jun 09, 2026

  27. How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster

    86 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  28. Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser

    86 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  29. Lockdown Mode

    86 points • comment • jun 06, 2026

  30. Why I don't have fun with Claude Code

    86 points • comment • jan 23, 2026

  31. Show HN: Neural Particle Automata

    86 points • comment • jun 23, 2026

  32. How I Became a Quant (2007) [pdf]

    86 points • comment • jan 19, 2026

  33. Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications

    86 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  34. The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models

    86 points • comment • apr 30, 2026

  35. Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built

    86 points • comment • feb 10, 2026

  36. Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

    86 points • comment • may 21, 2026

  37. A HN post with negative points – how?

    86 points • comment • may 12, 2026

  38. Small Engines

    86 points • comment • apr 06, 2026

  39. From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024)

    86 points • comment • mar 04, 2026

  40. Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas

    86 points • comment • feb 16, 2026

  41. Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones

    86 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  42. Cistercian Numbers

    86 points • comment • feb 18, 2026

  43. Someone needs to go to jail

    86 points • comment • mar 03, 2026

  44. Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss

    86 points • comment • feb 22, 2026

  45. What happened to GEM?

    86 points • comment • mar 20, 2026

  46. Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket

    86 points • comment • jan 06, 2026

  47. Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme cold

    86 points • comment • apr 27, 2026

  48. The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

    86 points • comment • jun 17, 2026

  49. Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's

    86 points • comment • mar 09, 2026

  50. Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts

    86 points • comment • jan 20, 2026

  51. Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  52. Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

    86 points • comment • may 30, 2026

  53. Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker

    86 points • comment • apr 02, 2026

  54. PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology

    86 points • comment • apr 22, 2026

  55. Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5

    86 points • comment • jun 12, 2026

  56. Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions

    86 points • comment • jan 03, 2026

  57. Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?

    86 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  58. Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?

    86 points • comment • jan 30, 2026

  59. How the Tech World Turned Evil

    86 points • comment • apr 23, 2026

  60. White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest

    86 points • comment • jan 22, 2026

  61. HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip

    86 points • comment • jan 07, 2026

  62. Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

    86 points • comment • jan 25, 2026

  63. When the Internet Was a Place (2025)

    85 points • comment • apr 29, 2026

  64. Programmable Cryptography (2024)

    85 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  65. Railway (PaaS) global outage

    85 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  66. ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested

    85 points • comment • mar 19, 2026

  67. How to get your first customers [video]

    85 points • comment • jun 24, 2026

  68. Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you

    85 points • comment • apr 15, 2026

  69. San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k

    85 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  70. "Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++

    85 points • comment • apr 27, 2026

  71. Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses

    85 points • comment • jan 16, 2026

  72. 3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering

    85 points • comment • jun 02, 2026

  73. How to Review an AUR Package

    85 points • comment • feb 17, 2026

  74. Linux Running in a PDF (2025)

    85 points • comment • mar 31, 2026

  75. Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

    85 points • comment • jun 17, 2026

  76. Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)

    85 points • comment • jan 31, 2026

  77. Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026

    85 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  78. Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I)

    85 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  79. On Labubu and the Hyperreal

    85 points • comment • may 27, 2026

  80. European lawmakers suspend U.S. trade deal

    85 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  81. A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

    85 points • comment • jun 16, 2026

  82. Show HN: Playing LongTurn FreeCiv with Friends

    85 points • comment • mar 18, 2026

  83. I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem

    85 points • comment • jan 10, 2026

  84. Epidurals are a miracle technology

    85 points • comment • jun 20, 2026

  85. The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America

    85 points • comment • may 28, 2026

  86. As a result of a US Government directive, we are suspending access to Fable 5

    85 points • comment • jun 13, 2026

  87. US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran

    85 points • comment • feb 28, 2026

  88. The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents

    85 points • comment • jun 19, 2026

  89. After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library

    85 points • comment • may 14, 2026

  90. Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)

    85 points • comment • mar 27, 2026

  91. I created my first AI-assisted pull request

    85 points • comment • mar 24, 2026

  92. Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

    85 points • comment • may 09, 2026

  93. Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

    85 points • comment • feb 11, 2026

  94. Block spent $68M on a single party in September 2025

    85 points • comment • feb 27, 2026

  95. What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift

    85 points • comment • may 24, 2026

  96. EU inc: a new European company structure

    85 points • comment • jan 21, 2026

  97. Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO

    85 points • comment • mar 15, 2026

  98. Optophone

    85 points • comment • feb 20, 2026

  99. A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design

    85 points • comment • apr 26, 2026

  100. Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders

    85 points • comment • jan 06, 2026