Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-27

  1. German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal www.politico.eu - 260 comments 670 points
  2. CSS Minecraft benjaminaster.com - 60 comments 606 points
  3. Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp lisp-journey.gitlab.io - 285 comments 500 points
  4. Google shared my phone number danq.me - 164 comments 456 points
  5. Owls in Towels owlsintowels.org - 31 comments 418 points
  6. Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails htxt.co.za - 277 comments 381 points
  7. A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air blog.seas.upenn.edu - 158 comments 340 points
  8. Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names mondaybits.com - 175 comments 303 points
  9. Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? news.ycombinator.com - 230 comments 282 points
  10. TIL: timeout in Bash scripts heitorpb.github.io - 76 comments 278 points
  11. GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world simonwillison.net - 175 comments 276 points
  12. Claude 4 and GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories twitter.com - 3 comments 241 points
  13. Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives torrentfreak.com - 209 comments 234 points
  14. Lossless video compression using Bloom filters github.com - 90 comments 232 points
  15. Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial www.science.org - 187 comments 227 points
  16. Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions github.com - 46 comments 213 points
  17. Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model bagel-ai.org - 32 comments 210 points
  18. Google is burying the web alive nymag.com - 151 comments 189 points
  19. Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine www.solarshades.club - 254 comments 180 points
  20. Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU lisyarus.github.io - 60 comments 177 points
  21. TeleMessage Customers Include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan,Hundreds micahflee.com - 1 comments 174 points
  22. TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech spectrum.ieee.org - 60 comments 145 points
  23. Britain’s police are restricting speech in worrying ways www.economist.com - 119 comments 132 points
  24. Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware www.zdnet.com - 82 comments 130 points
  25. I think it’s time to give Nix a chance maych.in - 116 comments 128 points
  26. FromSoft’s singular mech game Chromehounds is back online www.readonlymemo.com - 14 comments 114 points
  27. WavePhoenix – Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol github.com - 11 comments 114 points
  28. The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets www.everydayplastic.org - 133 comments 109 points
  29. The double standard of webhook security and API security www.speakeasy.com - 44 comments 109 points
  30. Accessing private GitHub repositories via MCP invariantlabs.ai - 1 comments 105 points