Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-03

  1. How to live an intellectually rich life utsavmamoria.substack.com - 283 comments 507 points
  2. Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US developer.apple.com - 325 comments 445 points
  3. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order cpb.org - 527 comments 385 points
  4. Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics anukari.com - 92 comments 358 points
  5. “Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps support.google.com - 199 comments 352 points
  6. Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China apnews.com - 221 comments 341 points
  7. Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry www.leonarddavid.com - 162 comments 325 points
  8. The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? - 2020 massivesci.com - 332 comments 318 points
  9. Suno v4.5 suno.com - 183 comments 281 points
  10. Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface www.abdisa.me - 106 comments 247 points
  11. Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy openai.com - 210 comments 191 points
  12. Show HN: GPT-2 implemented using graphics shaders github.com - 22 comments 189 points
  13. Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes www.cnn.com - 223 comments 151 points
  14. A Common Lisp jq replacement world-playground-deceit.net - 47 comments 142 points
  15. The Cannae Problem www.joanwestenberg.com - 86 comments 140 points
  16. Show HN: OSle – A 510 bytes OS in x86 assembly github.com - 26 comments 139 points
  17. What I’ve learned from jj zerowidth.com - 57 comments 131 points
  18. Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates webflow.com - 39 comments 117 points
  19. Show HN: Blast – Fast, multi-threaded serving engine for web browsing AI agents github.com - 42 comments 114 points
  20. Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects diff.wikimedia.org - 59 comments 112 points
  21. Vatican Observatory www.vaticanobservatory.org - 51 comments 112 points
  22. Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups www.ubicloud.com - 16 comments 106 points
  23. VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber’s fun www.roadtovr.com - 77 comments 99 points
  24. Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer www.goto10retro.com - 50 comments 97 points
  25. De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices www.bbc.com - 130 comments 91 points
  26. The History of Album Art matthewstrom.com - 15 comments 88 points
  27. The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City - 2010 www.vice.com - 18 comments 77 points
  28. Why our waistlines expand in middle age: aging stem cells shift into overdrive medicalxpress.com - 111 comments 75 points
  29. GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases github.com - 25 comments 68 points
  30. Meta’s Reality Labs Has Now Lost over $60B Since 2020 meta.slashdot.org - 110 comments 67 points