Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-03-03

  1. Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office twitter.com - 410 comments 543 points
  2. NIH.gov DNS servers down, making PubMed, BLAST, etc. unreachable - fixed www.nslookup.io - 357 comments 481 points
  3. Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice www.sesame.com - 200 comments 367 points
  4. Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees techcrunch.com - 409 comments 359 points
  5. Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon www.cnn.com - 84 comments 332 points
  6. Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data www.theregister.com - 202 comments 313 points
  7. Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar www.reuters.com - 36 comments 303 points
  8. Trust in Firefox and Mozilla Is Gone – Let’s Talk Alternatives boilingsteam.com - 222 comments 259 points
  9. Understanding Smallpond and 3FS www.definite.app - 45 comments 252 points
  10. Solarpunk en.wikipedia.org - 114 comments 251 points
  11. The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three www.righto.com - 87 comments 249 points
  12. Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don’t know it yet zetier.com - 68 comments 244 points
  13. Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative kaguya.io - 194 comments 232 points
  14. Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes simonwillison.net - 147 comments 204 points
  15. The A.I. Monarchy substack.com - 241 comments 196 points
  16. Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet www.newyorker.com - 192 comments 196 points
  17. Schools reviving shop class www.wsj.com - 134 comments 179 points
  18. Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll focusfurnace.com - 88 comments 179 points
  19. Gooey rubber that’s slowly ruining old hard drives www.downtowndougbrown.com - 96 comments 160 points
  20. I struggled with Git, so I’m making a game to spare others the pain initialcommit.com - 213 comments 159 points
  21. GPT-4.5: “Not a frontier model”? www.interconnects.ai - 144 comments 154 points
  22. What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla’s Firefox neilzone.co.uk - 139 comments 149 points
  23. 2025 Hiring Pause hr.cornell.edu - 126 comments 148 points
  24. Why do we have both CSRF protection and CORS? smagin.fyi - 77 comments 137 points
  25. This Month in Ladybird February 2025 ladybird.org - 7 comments 137 points
  26. Raspberry Pi Pico audio player lucstechblog.blogspot.com - 30 comments 132 points
  27. olduse.net olduse.net - 15 comments 122 points
  28. German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility www.kpbs.org - 127 comments 116 points
  29. Gödel’s theorem debunks the most important AI myth – Roger Penrose - video www.youtube.com - 227 comments 111 points
  30. Matt’s Script Archive - 1995 www.scriptarchive.com - 42 comments 97 points