Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-04-27

  1. Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining simonwillison.net - 338 comments 755 points
  2. ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation www.aclu.org - 715 comments 694 points
  3. An end to all this prostate trouble? yarchive.net - 250 comments 592 points
  4. Cloth www.cloudofoz.com - 53 comments 438 points
  5. The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting www.happiness.hks.harvard.edu - 329 comments 400 points
  6. Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad github.com - 81 comments 399 points
  7. Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court www.chemistryworld.com - 273 comments 257 points
  8. Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling www.morpheus-research.com - 139 comments 234 points
  9. Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case pluralistic.net - 90 comments 226 points
  10. LLMs can see and hear without any training github.com - 62 comments 184 points
  11. Mike Lindell’s lawyers used AI to write brief–judge finds nearly 30 mistakes arstechnica.com - 139 comments 175 points
  12. Unauthorized experiment on r/changemyview involving AI-generated comments old.reddit.com - 117 comments 173 points
  13. Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day gizmodo.com - 124 comments 158 points
  14. Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS popovicu.com - 35 comments 136 points
  15. Stuffed-Na- aN: stuff your NaNs github.com - 47 comments 119 points
  16. Apparently Bluesky has one centralized service, the “relay” mastodon.online - 72 comments 103 points
  17. Tilt: dev environment as code github.com - 45 comments 100 points
  18. BART’s Anime Mascots www.bart.gov - 44 comments 100 points
  19. Inmates in ElSalvador tortured/strangled-hellish conditions in Bukele’s prisons - 2023 english.elpais.com - 61 comments 97 points
  20. Bill Gates’s Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC - 2008 www.pagetable.com - 19 comments 91 points
  21. Economists don’t know what’s going on www.economist.com - 163 comments 85 points
  22. Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser www.learn-c.org - 3 comments 85 points
  23. University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use thelogic.co - 64 comments 84 points
  24. The Seven-Year Rule www.macsparky.com - 70 comments 80 points
  25. California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers www.axios.com - 64 comments 79 points
  26. First and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in Oct 2025 arstechnica.com - 62 comments 78 points
  27. Barlow’s Principles of Adult Behaviour www.mail-archive.com - 45 comments 78 points
  28. Thank you for holding my duck - 2021 naml.us - 22 comments 77 points
  29. Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns www.nature.com - 35 comments 70 points
  30. Sigbovik Conference Proceedings 2025 - pdf sigbovik.org - 7 comments 68 points