Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-06-07

  1. Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed www.mozillafoundation.org - 193 comments 463 points
  2. How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes about.gitlab.com - 153 comments 385 points
  3. Researchers develop ‘transparent paper’ as alternative to plastics japannews.yomiuri.co.jp - 95 comments 229 points
  4. A year of funded FreeBSD development www.daemonology.net - 76 comments 228 points
  5. Jepsen: TigerBeetle 0.16.11 jepsen.io - 77 comments 225 points
  6. Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google wordsmith.social - 180 comments 219 points
  7. 4-7-8 Breathing www.breathbelly.com - 93 comments 219 points
  8. Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games odyc.dev - 46 comments 199 points
  9. A masochist’s guide to web development sebastiano.tronto.net - 23 comments 196 points
  10. Researchers find a way to make the HIV virus visible within white blood cells www.theguardian.com - 24 comments 191 points
  11. Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration portal.gov.cz - 28 comments 185 points
  12. Infomaniak comes out in support of controversial Swiss encryption law www.tomsguide.com - 98 comments 184 points
  13. SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding rwsdk.com - 104 comments 179 points
  14. Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer blocksandfiles.com - 56 comments 168 points
  15. Being fat is a trap federicopereiro.com - 331 comments 151 points
  16. The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Limitations of Reasoning LLMs - pdf ml-site.cdn-apple.com - 67 comments 145 points
  17. Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with ’the biggest, baddest CPU’ www.oregonlive.com - 108 comments 144 points
  18. Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts www.propublica.org - 111 comments 140 points
  19. Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation flightaware.engineering - 57 comments 140 points
  20. United States Digital Service Origins usdigitalserviceorigins.org - 65 comments 139 points
  21. An Interactive Guide to Rate Limiting blog.sagyamthapa.com.np - 40 comments 128 points
  22. What you need to know about EMP weapons www.aardvark.co.nz - 150 comments 120 points
  23. Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data www.bloomberg.com - 64 comments 113 points
  24. OpenAI is retaining all ChatGPT logs “indefinitely.” Here’s who’s affected arstechnica.com - 54 comments 112 points
  25. Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data www.nbcnews.com - 73 comments 111 points
  26. Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off doc.searls.com - 106 comments 110 points
  27. Too Many Open Files mattrighetti.com - 87 comments 109 points
  28. VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV torrentfreak.com - 89 comments 108 points
  29. Small Programs and Languages ratfactor.com - 40 comments 108 points
  30. Curate your shell history esham.io - 67 comments 107 points