Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-14

  1. The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority twitter.com - 598 comments 648 points
  2. Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? news.ycombinator.com - 312 comments 483 points
  3. Multiple security issues in GNU Screen www.openwall.com - 219 comments 365 points
  4. Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions comsec.ethz.ch - 134 comments 356 points
  5. In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships wqtz.bearblog.dev - 191 comments 304 points
  6. Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android’s Desktop Mode www.androidauthority.com - 220 comments 274 points
  7. PDF to Text, a challenging problem www.marginalia.nu - 151 comments 262 points
  8. Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection www.theregister.com - 165 comments 250 points
  9. Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? jamal.haba.sh - 326 comments 249 points
  10. Why I’m resigning from the National Science Foundation time.com - 266 comments 223 points
  11. Flattening Rust’s learning curve corrode.dev - 130 comments 182 points
  12. I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search bloggeroo.dev - 157 comments 177 points
  13. Odin: A programming language made for me zylinski.se - 191 comments 176 points
  14. Launch HN: Miyagi - YC W25 turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses news.ycombinator.com - 97 comments 172 points
  15. Dusk OS duskos.org - 107 comments 171 points
  16. Type-constrained code generation with language models arxiv.org - 60 comments 168 points
  17. Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications - Rust github.com - 64 comments 154 points
  18. It Awaits Your Experiments www.rifters.com - 56 comments 154 points
  19. Starcloud www.ycombinator.com - 285 comments 140 points
  20. Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers www.cnbc.com - 26 comments 125 points
  21. Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode www.wired.com - 203 comments 122 points
  22. Y Combinator says Google is a monopolist, no comment about its OpenAI ties techcrunch.com - 39 comments 119 points
  23. Anti-Personnel Computing - 2023 erratique.ch - 52 comments 116 points
  24. Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM cocoindex.io - 18 comments 116 points
  25. Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes www.sixthtone.com - 59 comments 115 points
  26. As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database www.theregister.com - 42 comments 114 points
  27. Show HN: Basecoat – shadcn/UI components, no React required news.ycombinator.com - 66 comments 113 points
  28. GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill arstechnica.com - 118 comments 108 points
  29. Fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in the water too long www.binghamton.edu - 41 comments 106 points
  30. OpenAI’s Stargate project struggling to get off the ground, due to tariffs techcrunch.com - 163 comments 96 points