Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-02-16

  1. My Life in Weeks weeks.ginatrapani.org - 157 comments 570 points
  2. Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researchers find techxplore.com - 351 comments 457 points
  3. Jane Street’s Figgie card game www.figgie.com - 93 comments 394 points
  4. Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds e360.yale.edu - 365 comments 385 points
  5. Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System jellyfin.org - 202 comments 312 points
  6. Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5 github.com - 133 comments 274 points
  7. New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation sfstandard.com - 71 comments 232 points
  8. Bookshop.org launches Kindle alternative, sends e-book sales to local bookstores www.usatoday.com - 92 comments 227 points
  9. Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal arstechnica.com - 109 comments 205 points
  10. NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development www.cs.otago.ac.nz - 97 comments 180 points
  11. Watt The Fox? h.43z.one - 30 comments 167 points
  12. Alzheimer’s biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptoms newatlas.com - 49 comments 166 points
  13. Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for document text extraction github.com - 60 comments 163 points
  14. The European VAT Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports taxfoundation.org - 297 comments 162 points
  15. Multiple Russian Threat Actors Targeting Microsoft Device Code Authentication www.volexity.com - 30 comments 150 points
  16. If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it svpow.com - 206 comments 132 points
  17. Perplexity Deep Research www.perplexity.ai - 40 comments 131 points
  18. The Sims Game Design Documents - 1997 donhopkins.com - 14 comments 128 points
  19. The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking - pdf www.microsoft.com - 94 comments 121 points
  20. Twelve months at 1.5 °C signals earlier than expected breach of Paris Agreement www.nature.com - 123 comments 114 points
  21. Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books www.theverge.com - 96 comments 110 points
  22. US wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers can’t figure out how to reach them www.nbcnews.com - 58 comments 110 points
  23. PAROL6: 3D-printed desktop robotic arm source-robotics.github.io - 19 comments 110 points
  24. More Solar and Battery Storage Added to TX Grid Than Other Power Src Last Year insideclimatenews.org - 97 comments 106 points
  25. Schemesh: Fusion between Unix shell and Lisp REPL github.com - 27 comments 105 points
  26. Show HN: I Built a Reddit-style Bluesky client – still rough, but open to ideas threadsky.app - 35 comments 101 points
  27. US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers www.theguardian.com - 59 comments 95 points
  28. Why aren’t we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains? www.scientificamerican.com - 159 comments 92 points
  29. Is the ArXiv safe from the current US Government attacks? mathstodon.xyz - 68 comments 92 points
  30. How Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State www.nytimes.com - 44 comments 91 points