Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-04-16

  1. Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data www.npr.org - 412 comments 861 points
  2. CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract www.csoonline.com - 281 comments 641 points
  3. How to win an argument with a toddler seths.blog - 456 comments 626 points
  4. 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak knowyourmeme.com - 636 comments 505 points
  5. Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator filiph.github.io - 80 comments 502 points
  6. It’s easier than ever to de-censor videos www.jeffgeerling.com - 143 comments 344 points
  7. How the U.S. became a science superpower steveblank.com - 313 comments 314 points
  8. Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2 blog.google - 91 comments 273 points
  9. America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back www.molsonhart.com - 416 comments 257 points
  10. Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs - 2024 arxiv.org - 93 comments 240 points
  11. Clolog github.com - 35 comments 210 points
  12. Chroma: Ubisoft’s internal tool used to simulate color-blindness github.com - 59 comments 202 points
  13. Hacking the Postgres wire protocol pgdog.dev - 46 comments 191 points
  14. Launch HN: mrge.io - YC X25 – Cursor for code review news.ycombinator.com - 95 comments 186 points
  15. OpenAI is building a social network? www.theverge.com - 153 comments 165 points
  16. ICE Agents Realize They Arrested Wrong Teen, Say ‘Take Him Anyway’ www.newsweek.com - 83 comments 154 points
  17. JSX over the Wire overreacted.io - 98 comments 151 points
  18. How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers spectrum.ieee.org - 94 comments 145 points
  19. What the hell is a target triple? mcyoung.xyz - 115 comments 144 points
  20. Homeland Security funding for CVE program expires www.theregister.com - 6 comments 137 points
  21. Philosophy Major Snatched by ICE During Citizenship Interview dailynous.com - 88 comments 130 points
  22. The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call devblogs.microsoft.com - 30 comments 117 points
  23. Doge Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress www.nytimes.com - 37 comments 112 points
  24. You cannot have our user’s data sourcehut.org - 101 comments 110 points
  25. WEIRD – a way to be on the web a.weird.one - 56 comments 109 points
  26. TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days www.digicert.com - 177 comments 103 points
  27. Benn Jordan’s AI poison pill and the weird world of adversarial noise cdm.link - 166 comments 103 points
  28. I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636 scottaaronson.blog - 101 comments 97 points
  29. CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty arstechnica.com - 115 comments 90 points
  30. Cohere Launches Embed 4 cohere.com - 42 comments 90 points