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Hacker News Best Stories

Updated: 2026-06-06 06:00:13 CST

#	Title	Score
1	They’re made out of weights	▲1478
2	SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P	▲913
3	Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes	▲807
4	Changing how we develop Ladybird	▲780
5	VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare	▲666
6	U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse	▲630
7	Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot	▲577
8	Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery	▲514
9	When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement	▲500
10	French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56	▲448
11	Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026	▲397
12	I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it	▲397
13	The desperation of NYTimes	▲383
14	UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases	▲377
15	C++: The Documentary	▲348
16	Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe	▲338
17	Retro-Tech Parenting	▲336
18	Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs	▲316
19	Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses	▲307
20	Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]	▲297
21	Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool	▲254
22	pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution	▲245
23	Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen	▲231
24	Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites	▲231
25	The ways we contain Claude across products	▲226
26	Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform	▲225
27	Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things	▲221
28	Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies	▲209
29	Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?	▲207
30	Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants	▲204
31	I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab	▲202
32	South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools	▲202
33	Sagrada Família Lego set	▲202
34	Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency	▲199
35	Gaussian Point Splatting	▲189
36	Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux	▲188
37	WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access	▲176
38	American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn	▲176
39	ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol	▲172
40	Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995	▲172
41	Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks	▲167
42	New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste	▲163
43	Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other	▲162
44	Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity	▲161
45	The Causes of Long Covid	▲145
46	Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)	▲143
47	KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei	▲143
48	The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century	▲141
49	Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump	▲140
50	IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake	▲140