Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-25

  1. I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation sean.heelan.io - 125 comments 425 points
  2. Reinvent the Wheel endler.dev - 146 comments 302 points
  3. Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver gitlab.com - 42 comments 293 points
  4. Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears www.nature.com - 141 comments 252 points
  5. Good Writing paulgraham.com - 219 comments 210 points
  6. You’re a little company, now act like one longform.asmartbear.com - 38 comments 201 points
  7. Tachy0n: The Last 0day Jailbreak blog.siguza.net - 26 comments 192 points
  8. The Xenon Death Flash: How a Camera Nearly Killed the Raspberry Pi 2 magnus919.com - 73 comments 190 points
  9. Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools? news.ycombinator.com - 127 comments 162 points
  10. Hong Kong’s Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on - For Now www.nytimes.com - 51 comments 162 points
  11. DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum dynomight.net - 45 comments 142 points
  12. Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars www.theguardian.com - 113 comments 140 points
  13. Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle’s top-scoring board www.ft.com - 25 comments 125 points
  14. AI, Heidegger, and Evangelion fakepixels.substack.com - 66 comments 123 points
  15. Show HN: 1 min workouts for people who sit all day shortreps.com - 51 comments 121 points
  16. Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers pmbanugo.me - 58 comments 116 points
  17. Show HN: F2 – Cross-Platform CLI Batch Renaming Tool github.com - 20 comments 104 points
  18. Why old games never die, but new ones do pleromanonx86.wordpress.com - 97 comments 101 points
  19. Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency www.ft.com - 80 comments 101 points
  20. AI can’t even fix a simple bug – but sure, let’s fire engineers nmn.gl - 122 comments 92 points
  21. The legacy of the iconic Nakagin capsule tower www.designboom.com - 23 comments 89 points
  22. Idiocracy en.wikipedia.org - 23 comments 81 points
  23. Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash github.com - 59 comments 77 points
  24. Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager github.com - 53 comments 72 points
  25. Failure Mechanisms in Democratic Regimes – An Army’s Role angrystaffofficer.com - 34 comments 72 points
  26. Please Fund More Science - 2020 blog.samaltman.com - 54 comments 67 points
  27. The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland acoup.blog - 27 comments 62 points
  28. What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything Alexa had heard www.theguardian.com - 43 comments 60 points
  29. It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians - 2012 arxiv.org - 49 comments 58 points
  30. How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox blog.pipetogrep.org - 20 comments 53 points