Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-01-15

  1. I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back www.howtogeek.com - 476 comments 556 points
  2. In the belly of the MrBeast kevinmunger.substack.com - 361 comments 468 points
  3. FFmpeg by Example ffmpegbyexample.com - 115 comments 459 points
  4. Apple will soon receive ‘made in America’ chips from TSMC’s Arizona fab www.tomshardware.com - 419 comments 435 points
  5. Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain trufflesecurity.com - 234 comments 435 points
  6. 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds gizmodo.com - 354 comments 394 points
  7. ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion github.com - 275 comments 359 points
  8. Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers collegetowns.substack.com - 421 comments 288 points
  9. PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024 db-engines.com - 96 comments 251 points
  10. If You Ever See This Speed Sign, You’re Probably Going to Die www.theautopian.com - 145 comments 234 points
  11. Using coding skills to make passive income www.coryzue.com - 125 comments 223 points
  12. Home Loss File System docs.google.com - 33 comments 212 points
  13. Don’t use cosine similarity carelessly p.migdal.pl - 30 comments 199 points
  14. Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for ‘intense year’ www.cnbc.com - 316 comments 183 points
  15. Servo vs. steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy - video www.youtube.com - 62 comments 165 points
  16. How rqlite is tested philipotoole.com - 30 comments 163 points
  17. The Shepherd 1.0.0 released guix.gnu.org - 40 comments 158 points
  18. Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub docs.marimo.io - 22 comments 150 points
  19. Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third www.ornl.gov - 131 comments 143 points
  20. Proton: We’re giving away over $1M to support a better internet proton.me - 39 comments 141 points
  21. Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit arstechnica.com - 179 comments 132 points
  22. Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure www.whitehouse.gov - 96 comments 128 points
  23. Show HN: A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results github.com - 53 comments 127 points
  24. American workers’ enthusiasm for their jobs falls to a 10-year low www.axios.com - 149 comments 124 points
  25. Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe insideevs.com - 195 comments 119 points
  26. LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters studenttheses.uu.nl - 120 comments 118 points
  27. Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS www.vijayp.dev - 91 comments 115 points
  28. Platforms systematically removed a user because he made “most wanted CEO” cards www.eff.org - 164 comments 114 points
  29. Take the Pedals Off the Bike www.fortressofdoors.com - 150 comments 114 points
  30. Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable? newsletter.goodtechthings.com - 364 comments 110 points