Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-04-02

  1. Electron band structure in germanium, my ass - 2001 pages.cs.wisc.edu - 326 comments 780 points
  2. Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button nuejs.org - 506 comments 697 points
  3. The April Fools joke that might have got me fired oldvcr.blogspot.com - 231 comments 481 points
  4. Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news app.fluentsubs.com - 166 comments 439 points
  5. Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 www.bbc.com - 64 comments 384 points
  6. Glubux’s Powerwall - 2016 secondlifestorage.com - 234 comments 364 points
  7. Why F#? batsov.com - 279 comments 319 points
  8. CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep home.cern - 100 comments 308 points
  9. Self-Hosting like it’s 2025 kiranet.org - 213 comments 207 points
  10. US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can’t get him back www.independent.co.uk - 130 comments 207 points
  11. Dave Täht has died libreqos.io - 40 comments 200 points
  12. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit github.com - 64 comments 193 points
  13. Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model github.com - 40 comments 192 points
  14. The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst glthr.com - 49 comments 189 points
  15. Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative? news.ycombinator.com - 163 comments 166 points
  16. Shared DNA in Music pudding.cool - 29 comments 150 points
  17. Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods queue.acm.org - 40 comments 144 points
  18. RubyUI - Former PhlexUI: Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components github.com - 29 comments 137 points
  19. ‘A hostile state’: Why some travellers are avoiding the US www.bbc.com - 93 comments 121 points
  20. The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it jangafx.com - 71 comments 114 points
  21. How Silica Gel Took Over the World www.scopeofwork.net - 80 comments 108 points
  22. Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage - Cloudflare news.ycombinator.com - 28 comments 107 points
  23. We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains asteriskmag.com - 100 comments 105 points
  24. Val Kilmer has passed away www.nytimes.com - 30 comments 97 points
  25. Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing github.com - 36 comments 93 points
  26. Show HN: Terminal dashboard that throttles my PC during peak electricity rates www.naveen.ing - 58 comments 89 points
  27. Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst www.theguardian.com - 68 comments 85 points
  28. Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars github.com - 43 comments 85 points
  29. LLM providers on the cusp of an ’extinction’ phase as capex realities bite www.theregister.com - 68 comments 84 points
  30. Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building www.wired.com - 35 comments 82 points