Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-24

  1. Postgres IDE in VS Code techcommunity.microsoft.com - 309 comments 778 points
  2. Find Your People foundersatwork.posthaven.com - 188 comments 473 points
  3. Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site rachelbythebay.com - 265 comments 272 points
  4. How to live on $432 a month in America shagbark.substack.com - 411 comments 258 points
  5. MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 www.anildash.com - 167 comments 209 points
  6. OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level www.pixelstech.net - 128 comments 178 points
  7. How I ended up flying for Yemen’s national airline – and survived www.pprune.org - 30 comments 163 points
  8. Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy www.societyforscience.org - 69 comments 149 points
  9. Show HN: hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page hcker.news - 68 comments 148 points
  10. Root for your friends josephthacker.com - 34 comments 142 points
  11. Writing A Job Runner - In Elixir (Again) (10 years later) github.com - 37 comments 138 points
  12. Caesar’s Last Breath charliesabino.com - 63 comments 136 points
  13. Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre www.wordonfire.org - 59 comments 129 points
  14. Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments www.cip.org - 61 comments 120 points
  15. Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation attentionmech.github.io - 28 comments 119 points
  16. Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app doublememory.com - 34 comments 112 points
  17. Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens arxiv.org - 56 comments 111 points
  18. Attention Wasn’t All We Needed www.stephendiehl.com - 17 comments 111 points
  19. KumoRFM: A Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Relational Data kumo.ai - 18 comments 103 points
  20. Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats contextch.at - 35 comments 90 points
  21. The metre originated in the French Revolution www.abc.net.au - 143 comments 89 points
  22. The world of Japan’s PC-98 computer strangecomforts.com - 27 comments 86 points
  23. A 2030 Morning Routine www.marginalia.nu - 31 comments 83 points
  24. Why Algebraic Effects? antelang.org - 27 comments 79 points
  25. Emacs dired-mode as a file manager lynn.sh - 44 comments 72 points
  26. Alberta separatism push roils Canada www.nytimes.com - 270 comments 70 points
  27. Types of optical systems in a lens designer’s toolbox - 2020 www.pencilofrays.com - 12 comments 70 points
  28. A Formal Proof of Complexity Bounds on Diophantine Equations arxiv.org - 8 comments 67 points
  29. College English majors can’t read kittenbeloved.substack.com - 107 comments 63 points
  30. Show HN: Samchika – A Java Library for Fast, Multithreaded File Processing github.com - 45 comments 61 points