Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-12

  1. Plain Vanilla Web plainvanillaweb.com - 450 comments 908 points
  2. I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C - 278 KB, no frameworks github.com - 163 comments 305 points
  3. Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war insideevs.com - 471 comments 286 points
  4. In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more pivot-to-ai.com - 228 comments 260 points
  5. Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service www.customerexperiencedive.com - 93 comments 222 points
  6. Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping www.finebooksmagazine.com - 82 comments 202 points
  7. Build iOS Apps on Linux and Windows forums.swift.org - 39 comments 202 points
  8. The Epochalypse Project epochalypse-project.org - 77 comments 177 points
  9. High-school shop students attract skilled-trades job offers www.wsj.com - 266 comments 175 points
  10. DNS piracy blocking orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS respond differently torrentfreak.com - 149 comments 165 points
  11. Why Bell Labs Worked 1517.substack.com - 127 comments 164 points
  12. Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper github.com - 52 comments 157 points
  13. Burrito Now, Pay Later enterprisevalue.substack.com - 189 comments 126 points
  14. LSP client in Clojure in 200 lines of code vlaaad.github.io - 14 comments 123 points
  15. Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected theconversation.com - 71 comments 111 points
  16. 2024 sea level ‘report cards’ map futures of U.S. coastal communities news.wm.edu - 94 comments 95 points
  17. JEP 515: Ahead-of-Time Method Profiling openjdk.org - 9 comments 94 points
  18. A Rust Documentation Ecosystem Review www.harudagondi.space - 14 comments 89 points
  19. Gonzalo Guerrero en.wikipedia.org - 25 comments 87 points
  20. Continuous Thought Machines pub.sakana.ai - 6 comments 86 points
  21. An online exhibition of pretty software bugs glitchgallery.org - 1 comments 82 points
  22. Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-Play Reasoning with Zero Data arxiv.org - 17 comments 76 points
  23. Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app www.notiv.app - 113 comments 75 points
  24. Applications of Classical Physics pmaweb.caltech.edu - 36 comments 75 points
  25. Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL www.primeintellect.ai - 21 comments 73 points
  26. An $18M grant would have drastically reduced food waste. Then the EPA cut it grist.org - 42 comments 71 points
  27. Show HN: GlassFlow – OSS streaming dedup and joins from Kafka to ClickHouse github.com - 31 comments 69 points
  28. Booting the RP2350 from UART pfister.dev - 8 comments 67 points
  29. The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia www.sigarch.org - 35 comments 63 points
  30. Why not object capability languages? blog.plan99.net - 28 comments 61 points