Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-01-06

  1. A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis nmn.gl - 200 comments 365 points
  2. How NAT Traversal Works - 2020 tailscale.com - 71 comments 357 points
  3. Extracting AI models from mobile apps altayakkus.substack.com - 179 comments 305 points
  4. I made $100K from a dick joke imgur.com - 122 comments 292 points
  5. Show HN: Struggle with CSS Flexbox? This Playground Is for You yoavsbg.github.io - 102 comments 281 points
  6. Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China content.akamai.com - 136 comments 280 points
  7. Remote code execution via MIDI messages psi3.ru - 40 comments 273 points
  8. Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets www.inferable.ai - 144 comments 226 points
  9. In my life, I’ve witnessed three elite salespeople at work slate.com - 105 comments 215 points
  10. A story on home server security raniseth.com - 257 comments 204 points
  11. Ads chew through half of mobile data www.nextpit.com - 224 comments 203 points
  12. Hacker gains access to the RP2350 OTP secret by glitching the RISC-V cores www.tomshardware.com - 28 comments 193 points
  13. Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns www.lesswrong.com - 93 comments 175 points
  14. Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024? news.ycombinator.com - 55 comments 137 points
  15. Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena news.ycombinator.com - 103 comments 135 points
  16. Killed by LLM r0bk.github.io - 49 comments 134 points
  17. Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi www.wi-fi.org - 35 comments 119 points
  18. Social media distorts perceptions of norms - 2024 osf.io - 115 comments 105 points
  19. Republishing my Simpsons fan site, twenty years later www.bingeclock.com - 31 comments 102 points
  20. Learn New Skills www.attejuvonen.fi - 16 comments 99 points
  21. SrsRAN: Open-Source 4G/5G github.com - 27 comments 96 points
  22. Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU www.righto.com - 13 comments 94 points
  23. Game dev in Rust: a year later users.rust-lang.org - 53 comments 90 points
  24. The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines - 2023 www.construction-physics.com - 76 comments 82 points
  25. AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com - 98 comments 80 points
  26. Duolicious – Open-source dating app github.com - 77 comments 80 points
  27. Reflections blog.samaltman.com - 80 comments 79 points
  28. Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to ‘broken’ finance system - 2024 www.cbc.ca - 86 comments 72 points
  29. Reliable system call interception blog.mggross.com - 1 comments 68 points
  30. Unemployed office workers are having a harder time finding new jobs www.wsj.com - 16 comments 64 points