Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-01-23

  1. Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch www.byran.ee - 127 comments 868 points
  2. Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years krebsonsecurity.com - 202 comments 757 points
  3. TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you’re trying to avoid tabboo.xyz - 96 comments 483 points
  4. How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain rustle.ca - 175 comments 353 points
  5. The Tyranny of Structurelessness - 1970 www.jofreeman.com - 126 comments 329 points
  6. My Struggle with Doom Scrolling allthatjazz.me - 294 comments 302 points
  7. DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations bsky.app - 347 comments 275 points
  8. Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark stratoshark.org - 42 comments 249 points
  9. Federal Court - Finally Rules Backdoor Searches of Data Unconstitutional www.eff.org - 49 comments 242 points
  10. NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring www.science.org - 320 comments 235 points
  11. Simple CPU Design simplecpudesign.com - 38 comments 222 points
  12. OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold www.technologyreview.com - 180 comments 203 points
  13. Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them in API design cloud.google.com - 133 comments 168 points
  14. Tailwind CSS v4.0 tailwindcss.com - 92 comments 167 points
  15. Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas fiber.googleblog.com - 172 comments 162 points
  16. C stdlib isn’t threadsafe and even safe Rust didn’t save us www.edgedb.com - 167 comments 141 points
  17. Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad github.com - 98 comments 132 points
  18. Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History terriblesoftware.org - 36 comments 130 points
  19. The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy docpop.org - 71 comments 125 points
  20. Minimal 64x4 Home Computer github.com - 26 comments 121 points
  21. Foundations of Large Language Models arxiv.org - 6 comments 117 points
  22. The ultra-fast cancer treatments which could replace conventional radiotherapy www.bbc.com - 5 comments 111 points
  23. A Look Back at 2024: F-Droid’s Progress and What’s Coming in 2025 f-droid.org - 4 comments 104 points
  24. Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance www.trae.ai - 107 comments 103 points
  25. I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey ertu.dev - 14 comments 96 points
  26. Tech takes the Pareto principle too far bobbylox.com - 12 comments 93 points
  27. Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 - 2007 web.mit.edu - 43 comments 84 points
  28. Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body arstechnica.com - 65 comments 77 points
  29. Show HN: BrowserAI – Run LLMs directly in browser using WebGPU - open source github.com - 18 comments 76 points
  30. Lossless Compression of Vector IDs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search arxiv.org - 3 comments 73 points