Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-04-29

  1. Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal www.bbc.com - 953 comments 1342 points
  2. Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python www.runpyxl.com - 234 comments 893 points
  3. Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster qwenlm.github.io - 219 comments 549 points
  4. Migrating away from Rust deadmoney.gg - 444 comments 501 points
  5. PhD Timeline xkcd.com - 106 comments 328 points
  6. Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal www.bbc.com - 20 comments 326 points
  7. The side hustle from hell blog.jacobstechtavern.com - 123 comments 313 points
  8. Tiny-LLM – a course of serving LLM on Apple Silicon for systems engineers github.com - 27 comments 255 points
  9. Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge mrwint.github.io - 103 comments 254 points
  10. One Million Chessboards onemillionchessboards.com - 42 comments 192 points
  11. The 12-bit rainbow palette iamkate.com - 50 comments 190 points
  12. Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction github.com - 50 comments 174 points
  13. Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated asteriskmag.com - 315 comments 166 points
  14. Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background? devblogs.microsoft.com - 61 comments 155 points
  15. The One-Person Framework in Practice link.mail.beehiiv.com - 58 comments 141 points
  16. Show HN: Sim Studio – Open-Source Agent Workflow GUI github.com - 47 comments 137 points
  17. Knowledge-based society, my ass mihaiolteanu.me - 20 comments 118 points
  18. Reality Check www.wheresyoured.at - 92 comments 115 points
  19. Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws www.eff.org - 29 comments 110 points
  20. The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin lars.ingebrigtsen.no - 45 comments 109 points
  21. Is outbound going to die? rnikhil.com - 91 comments 103 points
  22. Naur’s “Programming as Theory Building” and LLMs replacing human programmers ratfactor.com - 113 comments 88 points
  23. DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked from GitHub torrentfreak.com - 27 comments 85 points
  24. Giving Software Away for Free simonwillison.net - 50 comments 84 points
  25. Vision Transformers Need Registers arxiv.org - 9 comments 83 points
  26. Reversing the fossilization of computer science conferences cacm.acm.org - 55 comments 80 points
  27. We Found Insurance Fraud in Our Crash Data www.levs.fyi - 68 comments 72 points
  28. Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed apps.apple.com - 39 comments 66 points
  29. Show HN: Web-eval-agent – Let the coding agent debug itself github.com - 11 comments 66 points
  30. Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting”, “customer backups at risk” arstechnica.com - 41 comments 60 points