Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-02-17

  1. “A calculator app? Anyone could make that” chadnauseam.com - 347 comments 1374 points
  2. Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS caddyserver.com - 179 comments 487 points
  3. US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago www.bbc.com - 713 comments 439 points
  4. Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died www.eurogamer.net - 86 comments 433 points
  5. Uchū – Color scheme for internet lovers uchu.style - 152 comments 370 points
  6. Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th old.reddit.com - 181 comments 319 points
  7. Flea-Scope: $18 Source Available USB Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer and More - pdf rtestardi.github.io - 92 comments 274 points
  8. United States Power Outage Map poweroutage.us - 128 comments 268 points
  9. 50 Years of Travel Tips kk.org - 192 comments 243 points
  10. All Kindles can now be jailbroken old.reddit.com - 82 comments 215 points
  11. Vim after Bram: a core maintainer on how they’ve kept it going thenewstack.io - 67 comments 201 points
  12. Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living www.ssp.sh - 69 comments 197 points
  13. Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone hforsten.com - 15 comments 175 points
  14. IPv6 Is Hard techlog.jenslink.net - 232 comments 150 points
  15. YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info old.reddit.com - 112 comments 150 points
  16. Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus www.chillyatc.com - 78 comments 141 points
  17. Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after ‘insiders’ pocket $87M www.coindesk.com - 142 comments 132 points
  18. San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time sfstandard.com - 169 comments 130 points
  19. Big tech has disrupted the social contract basedfob.substack.com - 85 comments 126 points
  20. Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy www.bbc.com - 60 comments 115 points
  21. Rust Is Eating JavaScript - 2023 leerob.com - 220 comments 113 points
  22. Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai - 2016 simplyfabulicious.wordpress.com - 70 comments 107 points
  23. Why I’m leaving Elm - 2020 lukeplant.me.uk - 79 comments 95 points
  24. Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube surasshu.com - 80 comments 92 points
  25. Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting www.theguardian.com - 128 comments 89 points
  26. Does or did COBOL default to 1875-05-20 for corrupt or missing dates? retrocomputing.stackexchange.com - 119 comments 89 points
  27. Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS www.washingtonpost.com - 24 comments 88 points
  28. Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”? - 2016 devblogs.microsoft.com - 75 comments 75 points
  29. Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio www.tomshardware.com - 33 comments 73 points
  30. Statement or eyesore? Japan’s divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures www.theguardian.com - 31 comments 72 points