Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-06-08

  1. Bill Atkinson has died daringfireball.net - 219 comments 1183 points
  2. Washington Post’s Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps - and Yandex tech.slashdot.org - 180 comments 319 points
  3. Convert photos to Atkinson dithering gazs.github.io - 34 comments 300 points
  4. My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong’s jungle corentin.trebaol.com - 86 comments 258 points
  5. Low-Level Optimization with Zig alloc.dev - 135 comments 253 points
  6. Joining Apple Computer - 2018 www.folklore.org - 55 comments 238 points
  7. Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts spacenews.com - 439 comments 220 points
  8. Why We’re Moving on from Nix blog.railway.com - 99 comments 213 points
  9. Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own www.ssp.sh - 73 comments 192 points
  10. What was Radiant AI, anyway? blog.paavo.me - 99 comments 160 points
  11. A tool for burning visible pictures on a compact disc surface - 2022 github.com - 48 comments 152 points
  12. Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings - 2021 www.michaelhorowitz.com - 152 comments 141 points
  13. BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore github.com - 76 comments 133 points
  14. After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes mashable.com - 190 comments 127 points
  15. Hate Radio - 2011 rwandanstories.org - 108 comments 127 points
  16. If it works, it’s not AI: a commercial look at AI startups - 1999 dspace.mit.edu - 54 comments 105 points
  17. Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude diwank.space - 34 comments 93 points
  18. Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray aoli.al - 11 comments 85 points
  19. Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R - 2024 www.sumsar.net - 31 comments 80 points
  20. You need much less memory than time blog.computationalcomplexity.org - 10 comments 79 points
  21. I’m Wirecutter’s water-quality expert. I don’t filter my water www.nytimes.com - 182 comments 78 points
  22. Should I Use a Carousel? - 2013 shouldiuseacarousel.com - 39 comments 78 points
  23. EFF to the FTC: DMCA Section 1201 Creates Anti-Competitive Regulatory Barriers www.eff.org - 2 comments 78 points
  24. The startling rise of disability in America - 2013 apps.npr.org - 116 comments 75 points
  25. Louis Rossmann: We’ve started a foundation to bring back ownership - video www.youtube.com - 12 comments 64 points
  26. The US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state english.elpais.com - 38 comments 62 points
  27. Taurine and aging: Is there anything to it? www.science.org - 63 comments 61 points
  28. Coventry Very Light Rail www.coventry.gov.uk - 77 comments 58 points
  29. An innovative superfamily of fonts for code - 2023 monaspace.githubnext.com - 11 comments 53 points
  30. Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users help.openai.com - 40 comments 51 points