Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-06-09

  1. The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles simonwillison.net - 196 comments 775 points
  2. Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn’t good for democracy helentoner.substack.com - 146 comments 259 points
  3. A look at Cloudflare’s AI-coded OAuth library neilmadden.blog - 155 comments 248 points
  4. Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level news.ycombinator.com - 71 comments 212 points
  5. FSE meets the FBI blog.freespeechextremist.com - 22 comments 204 points
  6. Why Android can’t use CDC Ethernet - 2023 jordemort.dev - 88 comments 195 points
  7. Kagi Reaches 50k Users kagi.com - 75 comments 159 points
  8. Gaussian integration is cool rohangautam.github.io - 31 comments 157 points
  9. Why not use DNS over HTTPS - DoH? www.bsdhowto.ch - 277 comments 151 points
  10. Administering immunotherapy in the morning seems to matter. Why? www.owlposting.com - 96 comments 148 points
  11. Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work ashishb.net - 75 comments 144 points
  12. The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models machinelearning.apple.com - 4 comments 121 points
  13. Self-hosted x86 back end is now default in debug mode ziglang.org - 55 comments 119 points
  14. Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe www.cyberark.com - 55 comments 112 points
  15. Reverse engineering Claude Code kirshatrov.com - 22 comments 109 points
  16. Omnimax computer.rip - 27 comments 101 points
  17. FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems www.tomshardware.com - 111 comments 97 points
  18. Re: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts skarlso.github.io - 98 comments 96 points
  19. Show HN: Let’s Bend – Open-Source Harmonica Bending Trainer letsbend.de - 19 comments 89 points
  20. Binfmtc – binfmt_misc C scripting interface www.netfort.gr.jp - 23 comments 86 points
  21. Forests offset warming more than thought: study news.ucr.edu - 8 comments 85 points
  22. Focus and Context and LLMs taras.glek.net - 41 comments 75 points
  23. YouTuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand www.amiga-news.de - 33 comments 74 points
  24. A Knockout Blow for LLMs? garymarcus.substack.com - 47 comments 72 points
  25. I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected lifehacker.com - 43 comments 68 points
  26. Fray: A Controlled Concurrency Testing Framework for the JVM github.com - 3 comments 67 points
  27. The wire that transforms much of Manhattan into one big, symbolic home - 2017 www.atlasobscura.com - 90 comments 65 points
  28. Riding high in Germany on the world’s oldest suspended railway www.theguardian.com - 12 comments 62 points
  29. I got a remote job for a EU company, I’d find it hard to go back to a US-based www.businessinsider.com - 72 comments 55 points
  30. What happens when people don’t understand how AI works www.theatlantic.com - 58 comments 52 points