Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-04-08

  1. Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town www.tokyoweekender.com - 164 comments 810 points
  2. A startup doesn’t need to be a unicorn mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com - 328 comments 543 points
  3. Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code browsermcp.io - 152 comments 412 points
  4. Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US jasher.substack.com - 2 comments 401 points
  5. 20 years of Git blog.gitbutler.com - 177 comments 243 points
  6. Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March www.axios.com - 521 comments 202 points
  7. Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua mrcjkb.dev - 65 comments 193 points
  8. The Dire Wolf Is Back www.newyorker.com - 168 comments 167 points
  9. Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs fosstodon.org - 29 comments 155 points
  10. LLMs understand nullability dmodel.ai - 112 comments 149 points
  11. Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI Revealed www.motherjones.com - 51 comments 135 points
  12. Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security queue.acm.org - 59 comments 128 points
  13. Writing C for Curl daniel.haxx.se - 79 comments 119 points
  14. Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development - 2023 www.botanica.software - 34 comments 108 points
  15. North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500 www.yahoo.com - 71 comments 105 points
  16. Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell yossarian.net - 14 comments 101 points
  17. Ask HN: I’m an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends news.ycombinator.com - 120 comments 96 points
  18. Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’ www.politico.eu - 153 comments 91 points
  19. Scaffold Level Editor blog.littlepolygon.com - 19 comments 84 points
  20. Shopify CEO: “AI usage is now a baseline expectation” twitter.com - 50 comments 83 points
  21. Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories - 2018 www.nytimes.com - 43 comments 81 points
  22. What Was Quartz? www.zachseward.com - 32 comments 81 points
  23. How new US tariffs are forcing Europe to rethink its entire tech stack spark.temrel.com - 36 comments 78 points
  24. Hasochism: The pleasure and pain of dependently typed Haskell programming - pdf - 2013 personal.cis.strath.ac.uk - 11 comments 78 points
  25. ITAPPMONROBOT - 2007 thedailywtf.com - 13 comments 68 points
  26. Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB arxiv.org - 11 comments 66 points
  27. John Carmack on AI in game programming twitter.com - 95 comments 65 points
  28. Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs idiallo.com - 24 comments 64 points
  29. Why Catullus continues to seduce us www.newyorker.com - 33 comments 62 points
  30. Fuck Run Club, Join Sit Club rawandferal.substack.com - 22 comments 59 points