Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-04-22

  1. Getting forked by Microsoft philiplaine.com - 879 comments 1666 points
  2. Pope Francis has died www.reuters.com - 633 comments 846 points
  3. Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii blog.infected.systems - 87 comments 438 points
  4. Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue github.com - 139 comments 437 points
  5. FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices www.ftc.gov - 210 comments 368 points
  6. Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life github.com - 114 comments 337 points
  7. Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature herecomesthemoon.net - 267 comments 298 points
  8. Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record ember-energy.org - 287 comments 296 points
  9. Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent spectrum.ieee.org - 104 comments 290 points
  10. A new form of verification on Bluesky bsky.social - 196 comments 281 points
  11. LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them matthewsinclair.com - 160 comments 255 points
  12. Pope Francis has died www.bbc.co.uk - 18 comments 221 points
  13. AI assisted search-based research works now simonwillison.net - 84 comments 187 points
  14. Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole phys.org - 110 comments 149 points
  15. Launch HN: Magic Patterns - YC W23 – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams news.ycombinator.com - 84 comments 139 points
  16. Out of the Fog www.theverge.com - 31 comments 139 points
  17. The Future of Compute: Nvidia’s Crown Is Slipping mohitdagarwal.substack.com - 93 comments 128 points
  18. An update to our pricing windsurf.com - 81 comments 123 points
  19. The campaign to subvert Africa’s internet registry www.capeindependent.com - 28 comments 113 points
  20. A M.2 HDMI capture card interfacinglinux.com - 40 comments 111 points
  21. Whistleblower statement on anomalies at time of DOGE work at NLRB - pdf whistlebloweraid.org - 13 comments 109 points
  22. Handwriting activates broader brain networks than typing www.psypost.org - 44 comments 108 points
  23. Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram github.com - 39 comments 108 points
  24. Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing sam.elborai.me - 25 comments 101 points
  25. Cheating the Reaper in Go mcyoung.xyz - 13 comments 97 points
  26. Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it’s horrifying www.theregister.com - 10 comments 95 points
  27. Thieves took their iPhones. Apple won’t give their digital lives back www.washingtonpost.com - 86 comments 92 points
  28. Visiting Us www.epic.com - 86 comments 90 points
  29. Prolog Adventure Game github.com - 9 comments 82 points
  30. Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter? mathenchant.wordpress.com - 124 comments 78 points