Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-04-18

  1. Google is illegally monopolizing online advertising tech, judge rules www.nytimes.com - 386 comments 717 points
  2. Gemini 2.5 Flash developers.googleblog.com - 369 comments 682 points
  3. TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale www.afterbabel.com - 641 comments 563 points
  4. An intro to DeepSeek’s distributed file system maknee.github.io - 76 comments 508 points
  5. “Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System www.skyatnightmagazine.com - 326 comments 398 points
  6. Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers prospect.org - 186 comments 347 points
  7. US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban www.bbc.com - 374 comments 342 points
  8. Potatoes in the Mail facts.usps.com - 115 comments 253 points
  9. HDR‑Infused Emoji sharpletters.net - 124 comments 225 points
  10. This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops www.wired.com - 219 comments 224 points
  11. U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law georgiarecorder.com - 88 comments 223 points
  12. Encryption Is Not a Crime www.privacyguides.org - 203 comments 205 points
  13. Passing planes and other whoosh sounds www.windytan.com - 52 comments 189 points
  14. Discord’s face scanning age checks ‘start of a bigger shift’ www.bbc.com - 215 comments 186 points
  15. Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH nvd.nist.gov - 44 comments 167 points
  16. Milwaukee M18 Battery Reverse Engineering quagmirerepair.com - 64 comments 165 points
  17. AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu www.dwarkesh.com - 291 comments 153 points
  18. Oda Ujiharu: Why the ‘weakest Samurai warlord’ is admired www.tokyoweekender.com - 61 comments 152 points
  19. Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates www.feldera.com - 70 comments 134 points
  20. DHL suspends B2C shipments over 800 USD until further notice www.dhl.com - 62 comments 130 points
  21. Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash - 2006 - pdf uniforumchicago.org - 93 comments 122 points
  22. Show HN: AgentAPI – HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, and Codex github.com - 12 comments 117 points
  23. OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf www.cnbc.com - 92 comments 114 points
  24. ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser flausch.social - 99 comments 111 points
  25. Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet www.reuters.com - 31 comments 111 points
  26. mIRC 7.81 www.mirc.com - 101 comments 108 points
  27. I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs www.cantgetmuchhigher.com - 55 comments 107 points
  28. BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report arxiv.org - 30 comments 100 points
  29. The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder buttondown.com - 106 comments 99 points
  30. Development on Apple Silicon with UTM rkiselenko.dev - 62 comments 99 points