Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-17

  1. Ground control to Major Trial virtualize.sh - 182 comments 479 points
  2. A Research Preview of Codex openai.com - 325 comments 407 points
  3. Thoughts on thinking dcurt.is - 243 comments 379 points
  4. BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries - 2024 zverok.space - 290 comments 327 points
  5. After months of coding with LLMs, I’m going back to using my brain albertofortin.com - 202 comments 324 points
  6. MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery economics.mit.edu - 148 comments 281 points
  7. Getting AI to write good SQL cloud.google.com - 132 comments 269 points
  8. Sci-Net sci-hub.se - 113 comments 259 points
  9. The first year of free-threaded Python labs.quansight.org - 256 comments 257 points
  10. Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3x longer contexts on Apple Silicon github.com - 35 comments 228 points
  11. Moody’s strips U.S. of triple-A credit rating www.ft.com - 183 comments 218 points
  12. Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED github.com - 92 comments 212 points
  13. I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA news.ycombinator.com - 363 comments 199 points
  14. Grok’s white genocide fixation caused by ‘unauthorized modification’ www.theverge.com - 136 comments 185 points
  15. Ollama violating llama.cpp license for over a year github.com - 65 comments 183 points
  16. Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling thenewstack.io - 263 comments 182 points
  17. X X^t can be faster arxiv.org - 51 comments 171 points
  18. Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors kobzol.github.io - 31 comments 140 points
  19. ClojureScript 1.12.42 clojurescript.org - 22 comments 128 points
  20. Leeks and Leaks daniel.haxx.se - 12 comments 115 points
  21. The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks - 2020 www.library.hbs.edu - 109 comments 113 points
  22. Apple Blocks Fortnite’s Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims www.macrumors.com - 103 comments 113 points
  23. Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew with Duct Tape, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com - 33 comments 106 points
  24. British naval dominance during the age of sail www.lesswrong.com - 82 comments 97 points
  25. Will AI systems perform poorly due to AI-generated material in training data? cacm.acm.org - 87 comments 82 points
  26. Coinbase 8K SEC filing for breach www.sec.gov - 1 comments 81 points
  27. Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python github.com - 30 comments 75 points
  28. Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Experiences blog.fka.dev - 37 comments 72 points
  29. The Problem with Teens Isn’t Smartphones–It’s Their Families grimoiremanor.substack.com - 63 comments 69 points
  30. Show HN: Rv, a Package Manager for R github.com - 29 comments 68 points