Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-03-31

  1. How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack krebsonsecurity.com - 600 comments 886 points
  2. FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado arstechnica.com - 322 comments 795 points
  3. The average college student today hilariusbookbinder.substack.com - 582 comments 463 points
  4. Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home’s computer room github.com - 233 comments 453 points
  5. Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL www.praetorian.com - 43 comments 224 points
  6. Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits - 2020 www.vox.com - 90 comments 193 points
  7. Ask HN: What are you working on? - March 2025 news.ycombinator.com - 450 comments 191 points
  8. Rust Any part 3: we have upcasts lucumr.pocoo.org - 71 comments 169 points
  9. Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists www.thetimes.com - 92 comments 146 points
  10. Four Lectures on Standard ML - 1989 - pdf www.cs.tufts.edu - 32 comments 141 points
  11. A decision to eject from a failing F-35B fighter and the betrayal in its wake www.postandcourier.com - 44 comments 133 points
  12. Span.SequenceEquals is faster than memcmp richardcocks.github.io - 66 comments 129 points
  13. Why Is This Site Built with C marcelofern.com - 109 comments 127 points
  14. Man Detained by ICE for Autism Awareness Tattoo Sent to Prison www.latintimes.com - 24 comments 126 points
  15. ICE Arrested and Detained a US Citizen for Hours Because He Looked Mexican www.techdirt.com - 12 comments 124 points
  16. Hacker Laws hacker-laws.com - 16 comments 120 points
  17. Introduction to System Programming in Linux - Early Access nostarch.com - 19 comments 115 points
  18. Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft mastodon.social - 36 comments 114 points
  19. Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World www.joshuakennon.com - 52 comments 113 points
  20. BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable breezewiki.com - 41 comments 107 points
  21. ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Uni’s Knowledge zeteo.com - 35 comments 104 points
  22. Can Earth’s rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim www.nature.com - 191 comments 94 points
  23. Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in first stage flight www.nasaspaceflight.com - 51 comments 92 points
  24. Why a plane turned around when a passenger lost a phone midflight www.washingtonpost.com - 154 comments 91 points
  25. Tail Call Recursion in Java with ASM - 2023 unlinkedlist.org - 36 comments 91 points
  26. Kalua: An OpenWrt extension for building large mesh-networks github.com - 2 comments 87 points
  27. Private Equity Is Coming for America’s $12T in Retirement Savings www.bloomberg.com - 97 comments 85 points
  28. MAME 0.276 www.mamedev.org - 23 comments 82 points
  29. The Child and the Shadow - 1975 - pdf www.johnirons.com - 19 comments 75 points
  30. Trump says he is not joking about third presidential term www.reuters.com - 68 comments 74 points