Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-01-27

  1. It’s not a crime if we do it with an app pluralistic.net - 541 comments 816 points
  2. Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion mort.coffee - 280 comments 407 points
  3. The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster www.zdnet.com - 367 comments 379 points
  4. No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard - 2024 corporate.vanguard.com - 492 comments 369 points
  5. The protester’s guide to smartphone security www.privacyguides.org - 180 comments 360 points
  6. YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups ycgraveyard.iamwillwang.com - 212 comments 358 points
  7. Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America’s largest recorded since the 1950s www.cjonline.com - 251 comments 339 points
  8. Marginalia – A search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content marginalia-search.com - 24 comments 272 points
  9. Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent www.jasonthorsness.com - 100 comments 254 points
  10. Brazil bans Sam Altman’s tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans economictimes.indiatimes.com - 52 comments 212 points
  11. Former tech CEO suing to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet sf.gazetteer.co - 149 comments 209 points
  12. When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell nsavage.substack.com - 245 comments 196 points
  13. Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster www.astronomy.com - 62 comments 194 points
  14. Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email purelymail.com - 102 comments 186 points
  15. Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward www.theindex.media - 77 comments 183 points
  16. Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens qwenlm.github.io - 66 comments 169 points
  17. Another undersea cable damaged in Baltic Sea www.france24.com - 118 comments 149 points
  18. Openhaystack: Build ‘AirTags’ – track Bluetooth devices via Apple’s network github.com - 25 comments 147 points
  19. Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep - 2018 estherschindler.medium.com - 36 comments 130 points
  20. Paxo: A DIY Phone paxo.fr - 33 comments 123 points
  21. No one is disrupting banks – at least not the big ones www.popularfintech.com - 194 comments 120 points
  22. The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed petapixel.com - 87 comments 117 points
  23. I Built an Omni-Directional Ball-Wheeled Bike - video www.youtube.com - 16 comments 107 points
  24. Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M simonwillison.net - 2 comments 97 points
  25. If OpenSSL were a GUI - 2022 smallstep.com - 35 comments 95 points
  26. Render raises $80M in Series C financing render.com - 94 comments 94 points
  27. Knowing less about AI makes people more open to using it theconversation.com - 60 comments 90 points
  28. Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM nicole.express - 5 comments 88 points
  29. I don’t like Docker or Podman blog.liw.fi - 77 comments 85 points
  30. 100 years of Bell Labs - pdf novitoll.com - 5 comments 78 points