Hacker News Trends - What Builders Discuss
Follow the most active stories and discussions shaping the AI and developer ecosystem.
Data window: Last 24 hours and last 7 days
Last updated: Sep 18, 2026
How to read this page
Overview
Fastest-moving Hacker News stories across the last 24 hours and 7 days. This is a momentum view, not a popularity leaderboard.
Ranking logic
24H Hot ranks by 24-hour points growth. Trending ranks by 7-day growth.
How to use this page
Open a story to see details, then jump into related topics to validate the underlying project momentum.
Field definitions
- Points: total points on Hacker News.
- 24h change: growth in points over the last 24 hours.
- 7d change: growth in points over the last 7 days.
24H Hot
24H Hot Hacker News
Top 20 • 24h
01
Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
640
63924h
02
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
605
60524h
03
Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
523
52324h
04
Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
560
50424h
05
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
523
49224h
06
Astra for Law
554
46724h
07
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
511
46524h
08
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
496
44124h
09
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
647
43924h
10
I don't like passkeys
411
41024h
11
Small programming tricks
497
40524h
12
Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
679
39324h
13
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
563
36224h
14
OpenJev
331
33024h
15
Backups Aren't Simple
311
31124h
16
Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
295
29524h
17
A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
409
28524h
18
Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap
271
27024h
19
Jemalloc 5.4.0
268
26824h
20
How to Write with an LLM
258
25824h
Trending
Trending News
Top 20 • 7d
01
Introducing System One Models and Jev
1,661
1,6617d
02
Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
1,581
1,5817d
03
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
1,139
1,1397d
04
A misalignment of AI in mathematics
1,096
1,0967d
05
I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
1,008
1,0087d
06
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
909
9097d
07
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
856
8567d
08
25 years of mass surveillance is enough
844
8447d
09
Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
782
7827d
10
Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
740
7407d
11
Steam Frame starts at $1059
711
7117d
12
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
691
6917d
13
Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
679
6797d
14
I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
663
6637d
15
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
647
6477d
16
Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
640
6397d
17
An update on Wayback Machine access
633
6337d
18
Claude is only available to people over 18 years
631
6317d
19
We must pace the frontier
628
6287d
20
google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
625
6257d