Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-26

  1. Claude 4 System Card simonwillison.net - 221 comments 618 points
  2. Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 www.telegraph.co.uk - 874 comments 361 points
  3. At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work www.nytimes.com - 442 comments 300 points
  4. Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS github.com - 105 comments 291 points
  5. Lottie is an open format for animated vector graphics lottie.github.io - 129 comments 285 points
  6. Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for - 2023 chomsky.info - 231 comments 187 points
  7. Ask HN: What are you working on? - May 2025 news.ycombinator.com - 553 comments 186 points
  8. Show HN: SVG Animation Software expressive.app - 86 comments 182 points
  9. Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog github.com - 42 comments 172 points
  10. Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code hynek.me - 46 comments 168 points
  11. Writing your own CUPS printer driver in 100 lines of Python - 2018 behind.pretix.eu - 25 comments 162 points
  12. Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser github.com - 26 comments 147 points
  13. Ten years of JSON Web Token and preparing for the future self-issued.info - 55 comments 145 points
  14. The Newark airport crisis www.theverge.com - 108 comments 124 points
  15. Dependency injection frameworks add confusion rednafi.com - 140 comments 123 points
  16. ‘Strange metals’ point to a whole new way to understand electricity www.science.org - 33 comments 116 points
  17. Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users - 2024 - pdf drops.dagstuhl.de - 87 comments 105 points
  18. Is TfL losing the battle against heat on the Victoria line? www.swlondoner.co.uk - 175 comments 94 points
  19. Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program - 2013 ephemeral.cx - 25 comments 93 points
  20. Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq www.spytalk.co - 87 comments 76 points
  21. Infinite Tool Use snimu.github.io - 14 comments 76 points
  22. Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels www.404media.co - 59 comments 75 points
  23. Show HN: Zli – A Batteries-Included CLI Framework for Zig github.com - 35 comments 72 points
  24. AI Hallucination Legal Cases Database www.damiencharlotin.com - 42 comments 71 points
  25. There was a time when the US government built homes for working-class Americans theconversation.com - 107 comments 68 points
  26. Fast, Simple and Open Firebase Alternative: TrailBase github.com - 16 comments 65 points
  27. Why top posting has won - 2018 www.solipsys.co.uk - 74 comments 64 points
  28. SteamOS now released officially for any device store.steampowered.com - 6 comments 64 points
  29. Can a corporation be pardoned? papers.ssrn.com - 91 comments 59 points
  30. We broke down the Sam Altman and Jony Ive video sfstandard.com - 62 comments 56 points