Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-18

  1. Push Ifs Up and Fors Down matklad.github.io - 157 comments 418 points
  2. Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law www.techradar.com - 170 comments 353 points
  3. Mystical suberic.net - 23 comments 221 points
  4. O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call mastdatabase.co.uk - 46 comments 209 points
  5. If nothing is curated, how do we find things tadaima.bearblog.dev - 136 comments 203 points
  6. Dead Stars Don’t Radiate johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com - 94 comments 190 points
  7. Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64 30fps.net - 39 comments 187 points
  8. Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python engineering.fb.com - 117 comments 176 points
  9. How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS webkit.org - 61 comments 172 points
  10. Catalog of Novel Operating Systems github.com - 57 comments 159 points
  11. AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model komiko.app - 36 comments 135 points
  12. Directory of MCP Servers github.com - 43 comments 130 points
  13. The Lost Japanese ROM of the Macintosh Plus www.journaldulapin.com - 38 comments 124 points
  14. LLMs are more persuasive than incentivized human persuaders arxiv.org - 95 comments 116 points
  15. Show HN: I built a knife steel comparison tool new.knife.day - 76 comments 115 points
  16. Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts www.mesoscalenews.com - 24 comments 108 points
  17. Implementing a RISC-V Hypervisor seiya.me - 4 comments 102 points
  18. Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open - 2020 robertheaton.com - 41 comments 94 points
  19. The longest train journey is epic – but nobody’s ever taken it bigthink.com - 37 comments 92 points
  20. Open Problems in Computational geometry topp.openproblem.net - 12 comments 86 points
  21. The Japanese method of creating forests comes to Mexico english.elpais.com - 3 comments 86 points
  22. Federal agencies continue terminating all funding to Harvard arstechnica.com - 87 comments 82 points
  23. FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux freebasic.net - 16 comments 75 points
  24. Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics arxiv.org - 2 comments 75 points
  25. GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California’s EV Mandate www.wsj.com - 67 comments 70 points
  26. Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers graphthinking.blogspot.com - 9 comments 69 points
  27. Beta.weather.gov beta.weather.gov - 21 comments 68 points
  28. Transformer neural net learns to run Conway’s Game of Life just from examples sidsite.com - 33 comments 66 points
  29. US loses last perfect credit rating amid rising debt www.bbc.com - 3 comments 64 points
  30. OBNC – Oberon-07 Compiler miasap.se - 20 comments 63 points