Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-03-08

  1. Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance www.eff.org - 279 comments 390 points
  2. Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects medicalxpress.com - 327 comments 379 points
  3. Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI techstartups.com - 331 comments 351 points
  4. Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition arxiv.org - 107 comments 340 points
  5. Introducing command And commandfor In HTML developer.chrome.com - 177 comments 302 points
  6. Europe’s most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague theins.press - 135 comments 295 points
  7. Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment github.com - 49 comments 218 points
  8. Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon www.theguardian.com - 259 comments 197 points
  9. Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks krebsonsecurity.com - 102 comments 195 points
  10. Bye, Prime www.tbray.org - 175 comments 184 points
  11. Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere pola.rs - 62 comments 179 points
  12. Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is “correct”? news.ycombinator.com - 196 comments 176 points
  13. Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools www.newsguardrealitycheck.com - 94 comments 147 points
  14. Matters Computational - 2010 - pdf www.jjj.de - 17 comments 146 points
  15. Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology engineering.fb.com - 44 comments 143 points
  16. Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market nodumbideas.com - 70 comments 132 points
  17. Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what’s in it phys.org - 70 comments 129 points
  18. Optimistic Locking in B-Trees cedardb.com - 32 comments 127 points
  19. AMD YOLO geohot.github.io - 76 comments 116 points
  20. The necessity of Nussbaum aeon.co - 115 comments 107 points
  21. Rules to improve air quality are under attack www.heatpumped.org - 47 comments 103 points
  22. Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk www.wired.com - 81 comments 99 points
  23. GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet cybercultural.com - 55 comments 99 points
  24. Great software design looks underwhelming www.seangoedecke.com - 8 comments 95 points
  25. Shares of Starlink’s European rival Eutelsat have tripled www.marketwatch.com - 97 comments 88 points
  26. Take It Down Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That’ll Lead to Censorship www.eff.org - 13 comments 87 points
  27. Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation motorillustrated.com - 12 comments 84 points
  28. How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? - 2023 www.freaktakes.com - 54 comments 82 points
  29. How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars www.propublica.org - 21 comments 76 points
  30. Rust inadequate for text compression codecs? palaiologos.rocks - 57 comments 73 points