Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-05-31

  1. Photos taken inside musical instruments www.dpreview.com - 25 comments 505 points
  2. The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine www.cnn.com - 608 comments 361 points
  3. Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services cacm.acm.org - 113 comments 318 points
  4. Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers github.com - 128 comments 286 points
  5. Beating Google’s kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 anemato.de - 83 comments 272 points
  6. Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn’t mean to publish yet crfm.stanford.edu - 65 comments 248 points
  7. Buttplug MCP github.com - 134 comments 230 points
  8. AI is not our future procreate.com - 159 comments 218 points
  9. Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens www.microcenter.com - 109 comments 206 points
  10. Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware? news.ycombinator.com - 159 comments 205 points
  11. RFK Jr’s ‘Maha’ report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies www.theguardian.com - 77 comments 167 points
  12. The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code sakana.ai - 170 comments 163 points
  13. MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans biggo.com - 90 comments 163 points
  14. Jerry Lewis’s “The Day the Clown Cried” discovered in Sweden after 53 years www.thenationalnews.com - 68 comments 149 points
  15. Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis www.gomomento.com - 39 comments 127 points
  16. De Bruijn notation, and why it’s useful blueberrywren.dev - 37 comments 126 points
  17. Mary Meeker’s first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI www.bondcap.com - 52 comments 125 points
  18. Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio - Rasdr radio-astronomy.org - 7 comments 123 points
  19. Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work capjs.js.org - 84 comments 122 points
  20. Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection papers.ssrn.com - 58 comments 98 points
  21. Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support github.com - 49 comments 90 points
  22. The Surveilled Student - 2021 www.chronicle.com - 40 comments 82 points
  23. Adam Riess and the Hubble tension www.theatlantic.com - 67 comments 81 points
  24. What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling Than the Truth? behavioralscientist.org - 103 comments 74 points
  25. When will M&S take online orders again? moneyweek.com - 102 comments 73 points
  26. High vitamin B6 doses over a long period could cause irreversible nerve damage www.abc.net.au - 64 comments 72 points
  27. Use AI code tools as collaborators, not crutches newsletter.oberai.dev - 61 comments 70 points
  28. Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals and everyday use? www.orioledb.com - 12 comments 70 points
  29. The David Lynch Collection www.juliensauctions.com - 73 comments 69 points
  30. Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans www.nytimes.com - 21 comments 69 points