Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-13

  1. I hacked a dating app - and how not to treat a security researcher alexschapiro.com - 280 comments 489 points
  2. The Barbican arslan.io - 164 comments 481 points
  3. Embeddings are underrated - 2024 technicalwriting.dev - 140 comments 450 points
  4. US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired www.theregister.com - 371 comments 431 points
  5. The FTC puts off enforcing its ‘click-to-cancel’ rule www.theverge.com - 190 comments 308 points
  6. A community-led fork of Organic Maps www.comaps.app - 191 comments 290 points
  7. Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS? wts.dev - 169 comments 245 points
  8. University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy news.utexas.edu - 159 comments 234 points
  9. Fastvlm: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models github.com - 38 comments 204 points
  10. Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought phys.org - 253 comments 196 points
  11. Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read bugs.ruby-lang.org - 91 comments 194 points
  12. Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s www.core77.com - 131 comments 162 points
  13. RIP Usenix ATC bcantrill.dtrace.org - 34 comments 157 points
  14. Just use HTML justfuckingusehtml.com - 144 comments 156 points
  15. A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad’s house sfstandard.com - 127 comments 147 points
  16. Gig Companies Violate Workers Rights www.hrw.org - 91 comments 147 points
  17. HealthBench – An evaluation for AI systems and human health openai.com - 123 comments 141 points
  18. A conversation about AI for science with Jason Pruet www.lanl.gov - 115 comments 141 points
  19. Build your own Siri locally and on-device thehyperplane.substack.com - 33 comments 141 points
  20. Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app github.com - 35 comments 139 points
  21. Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on ‘war crimes’ by colleagues www.bbc.com - 61 comments 128 points
  22. CrowdStrike CEO cuts his voting power by 92% with unexplained gifts www.bloomberg.com - 52 comments 121 points
  23. Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice asteriskmag.com - 162 comments 118 points
  24. Launch HN: ParaQuery - YC X25 – GPU Accelerated Spark/SQL news.ycombinator.com - 66 comments 111 points
  25. Spade Hardware Description Language spade-lang.org - 53 comments 106 points
  26. Tailscale 4via6 – Connect Edge Deployments at Scale tailscale.com - 32 comments 104 points
  27. Firefox Moves to GitHub github.com - 46 comments 102 points
  28. Byte latent transformer: Patches scale better than tokens - 2024 arxiv.org - 22 comments 102 points
  29. White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup www.washingtonpost.com - 66 comments 100 points
  30. Show HN: CLI that spots fake GitHub stars, risky dependencies and licence traps github.com - 62 comments 100 points