Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-04-07

  1. Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover standardebooks.org - 212 comments 1029 points
  2. The “S” in MCP Stands for Security elenacross7.medium.com - 153 comments 580 points
  3. Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit www.lesswrong.com - 269 comments 322 points
  4. Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other fuelarc.com - 381 comments 320 points
  5. Let’s Ban Billboards iambateman.com - 259 comments 305 points
  6. Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia derflounder.wordpress.com - 187 comments 252 points
  7. Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians www.capitoltrades.com - 88 comments 241 points
  8. After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work www.science.org - 131 comments 225 points
  9. Gumroad’s Interestingly Timed “Open-Source” Play tedium.co - 79 comments 200 points
  10. Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected michal.sapka.pl - 60 comments 175 points
  11. Federal cuts disrupt repairs to iconic U.S. trails apnews.com - 157 comments 174 points
  12. Circuit breaker triggered in Japan for stock futures trading www.wsj.com - 131 comments 168 points
  13. Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings www.bbc.com - 71 comments 160 points
  14. U.S. stock futures tumble indicating another plummet on Wall Street www.reuters.com - 242 comments 158 points
  15. SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators machinelearning.apple.com - 36 comments 157 points
  16. Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension nautil.us - 60 comments 155 points
  17. Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet www.bleepingcomputer.com - 64 comments 147 points
  18. How the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat www.theguardian.com - 111 comments 143 points
  19. E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X www.nytimes.com - 194 comments 128 points
  20. Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself - 2019 www.nytimes.com - 93 comments 128 points
  21. Eavesdropping on smartphone 13.56MHz NFC polling during screen wake-up/unlock old.reddit.com - 25 comments 128 points
  22. SciOp torrents: download, seed erased US Gov sites and datasets sciop.net - 12 comments 118 points
  23. Bill to block OpenAI’s for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted garymarcus.substack.com - 23 comments 111 points
  24. My Browser WASM’t Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers motifanalytics.medium.com - 25 comments 110 points
  25. Data centers contain 90% crap data gerrymcgovern.com - 61 comments 109 points
  26. Glamorous Toolkit gtoolkit.com - 25 comments 108 points
  27. Why Do Domestic Prices Rise with Tarriffs? marginalrevolution.com - 182 comments 106 points
  28. Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely github.com - 57 comments 101 points
  29. The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer 0x1.pt - 132 comments 95 points
  30. UK bans fake reviews and sneaky fees www.theguardian.com - 57 comments 87 points