Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-28

  1. Square Theory aaronson.org - 102 comments 519 points
  2. How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully www.frontiersin.org - 109 comments 373 points
  3. The Myth of Developer Obsolescence alonso.network - 345 comments 319 points
  4. Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins simonwillison.net - 111 comments 300 points
  5. Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python’s two new Rust-based type checkers blog.edward-li.com - 115 comments 296 points
  6. BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability blog.benjojo.co.uk - 129 comments 279 points
  7. I salvaged $6k of luxury items discarded by Duke students indyweek.com - 273 comments 239 points
  8. DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format ducklake.select - 89 comments 231 points
  9. LumoSQL lumosql.org - 81 comments 225 points
  10. Show HN: AutoThink – Boosts local LLM performance with adaptive reasoning news.ycombinator.com - 16 comments 159 points
  11. Why Cline doesn’t index your codebase cline.bot - 108 comments 152 points
  12. Why the original Macintosh had a screen resolution of 512×324 512pixels.net - 101 comments 150 points
  13. Mistral Agents API mistral.ai - 20 comments 144 points
  14. LiveStore: State management based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine livestore.dev - 38 comments 139 points
  15. Revisiting the algorithm that changed horse race betting - 2023 actamachina.com - 53 comments 120 points
  16. Running GPT-2 in WebGL: Rediscovering the Lost Art of GPU Shader Programming nathan.rs - 31 comments 120 points
  17. The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I - 2021 www.ethanhein.com - 52 comments 118 points
  18. US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting www.politico.com - 171 comments 116 points
  19. Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story www.allthingsdistributed.com - 34 comments 115 points
  20. Look ma, no bubbles designing a low-latency megakernel for Llama-1B hazyresearch.stanford.edu - 17 comments 111 points
  21. A UEFI app that sends LLDP-MED pkt at boot to negotiate PoE+ power before the OS roderickkhan.com - 21 comments 105 points
  22. Show HN: Malai – securely share local TCP services - database/SSH with others malai.sh - 42 comments 102 points
  23. Outcome-Based Reinforcement Learning to Predict the Future arxiv.org - 14 comments 91 points
  24. Launch HN: Relace - YC W23 – Models for fast and reliable codegen news.ycombinator.com - 44 comments 87 points
  25. OpenTPU: Open-Source Reimplementation of Google Tensor Processing Unit - TPU github.com - 12 comments 75 points
  26. Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact - video www.youtube.com - 108 comments 67 points
  27. Using Logic in Writing owl.purdue.edu - 18 comments 63 points
  28. In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture www.latimes.com - 43 comments 62 points
  29. He has powered his house for 8 years using laptop batteries 3dvf.com - 59 comments 54 points
  30. Mustard Watches - 1990 girard.perso.math.cnrs.fr - 22 comments 54 points