Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-15

  1. AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms deepmind.google - 209 comments 783 points
  2. What is HDR, anyway? www.lux.camera - 278 comments 583 points
  3. The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android nextcloud.com - 146 comments 380 points
  4. SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it’s also hostile to mountain people blog.stillgreenmoss.net - 282 comments 365 points
  5. Databricks acquires Neon www.databricks.com - 195 comments 310 points
  6. A server that wasn’t meant to exist it-notes.dragas.net - 86 comments 295 points
  7. How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip ericmigi.com - 104 comments 256 points
  8. The cryptography behind passkeys blog.trailofbits.com - 165 comments 195 points
  9. Perverse incentives of vibe coding fredbenenson.medium.com - 184 comments 177 points
  10. Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD hey.paris - 140 comments 176 points
  11. Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents github.com - 37 comments 172 points
  12. Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News www.teenvogue.com - 53 comments 161 points
  13. How the economics of multitenancy work www.blacksmith.sh - 33 comments 153 points
  14. Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities techcrunch.com - 378 comments 152 points
  15. Migrating to Postgres engineering.usemotion.com - 131 comments 151 points
  16. LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation arxiv.org - 78 comments 148 points
  17. Our narrative prison aeon.co - 117 comments 144 points
  18. U.S. nuclear base hidden under Greenland’s ice for decades www.wsj.com - 73 comments 137 points
  19. Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker github.com - 43 comments 136 points
  20. Human quarter–mile.com - 57 comments 129 points
  21. Grok answers unrelated queries with long paragraphs about “white genocide” twitter.com - 74 comments 126 points
  22. Show HN: Semantic Calculator - king-man+woman=? calc.datova.ai - 123 comments 117 points
  23. E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper buttondown.com - 111 comments 112 points
  24. The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon www.nytimes.com - 187 comments 108 points
  25. $20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder www.memorysafety.org - 96 comments 103 points
  26. Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator smalltalkzoo.thechm.org - 29 comments 78 points
  27. The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates medium.com - 200 comments 70 points
  28. LLMs are making me dumber vvvincent.me - 64 comments 65 points
  29. UK’s Ancient Tree Inventory ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk - 52 comments 61 points
  30. You can no longer browse open source code on GitHub without logging in first github.com - 10 comments 56 points