Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-06-04

  1. Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system github.com - 249 comments 604 points
  2. EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal old.reddit.com - 262 comments 448 points
  3. Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored rachel.fast.ai - 48 comments 377 points
  4. Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android localmess.github.io - 244 comments 358 points
  5. - On | No Syntactic Support for Error Handling go.dev - 434 comments 328 points
  6. Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B ‘AI’ Startup Exposed as ‘Indians’? www.ibtimes.co.uk - 201 comments 328 points
  7. How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming spectrum.ieee.org - 370 comments 318 points
  8. Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android localmess.github.io - 6 comments 249 points
  9. Swift at Apple: Migrating the Password Monitoring Service from Java www.swift.org - 178 comments 214 points
  10. Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server – AirPlay to an iOS Device github.com - 27 comments 173 points
  11. Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife “critical window” www.pnas.org - 62 comments 164 points
  12. Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language github.com - 83 comments 157 points
  13. Vision Language Models Are Biased vlmsarebiased.github.io - 117 comments 146 points
  14. Precious Plastic is in trouble www.preciousplastic.com - 81 comments 142 points
  15. The Small World of English www.inotherwords.app - 62 comments 132 points
  16. DiffX – Next-Generation Extensible Diff Format diffx.org - 30 comments 127 points
  17. A manager is not your best friend staysaasy.com - 58 comments 115 points
  18. Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul www.theregister.com - 18 comments 111 points
  19. A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine richardcsuwandi.github.io - 21 comments 108 points
  20. Claude Code Is My Computer steipete.me - 91 comments 106 points
  21. NYC Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates www.nytimes.com - 156 comments 105 points
  22. Merlin Bird ID merlin.allaboutbirds.org - 27 comments 102 points
  23. Did “Big Oil” Sell Us on a Recycling Scam? daily.jstor.org - 120 comments 99 points
  24. Show HN: Controlling 3D models with voice and hand gestures github.com - 18 comments 87 points
  25. Show HN: Ephe – A minimalist open-source Markdown paper for today github.com - 28 comments 85 points
  26. Fun with Futex blog.fredrb.com - 20 comments 85 points
  27. Plutonium Mountain: The 17-year mission to guard remains of Soviet nuclear tests - 2013 www.belfercenter.org - 44 comments 83 points
  28. Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing news.ycombinator.com - 80 comments 81 points
  29. KDE for Windows 10 Exiles – Upgrade your software, not your computer kde.org - 73 comments 81 points
  30. There should be no Computer Art - 1971 dam.org - 121 comments 80 points