Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-06-14

  1. If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model - 2014 joshworth.com - 226 comments 728 points
  2. I convinced HP’s board to buy Palm and watched them kill it philmckinney.substack.com - 433 comments 509 points
  3. Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab www.nytimes.com - 441 comments 426 points
  4. Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing? news.ycombinator.com - 180 comments 341 points
  5. OxCaml - a set of extensions to the OCaml programming language. oxcaml.org - 90 comments 278 points
  6. Apple’s Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh omc345.substack.com - 216 comments 215 points
  7. Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor tattoy.sh - 48 comments 165 points
  8. Luxe Game Engine luxeengine.com - 51 comments 156 points
  9. The Tech Job Meltdown www.professoraxelrod.com - 61 comments 147 points
  10. Self-Adapting Language Models arxiv.org - 36 comments 127 points
  11. Anker is recalling over 1.1M power banks due to fire and burn risks www.theverge.com - 74 comments 122 points
  12. The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer www.dns0.eu - 99 comments 121 points
  13. Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem? news.ycombinator.com - 157 comments 118 points
  14. Implementing Logic Programming btmc.substack.com - 26 comments 112 points
  15. Endometriosis is an interesting disease www.owlposting.com - 31 comments 106 points
  16. 100 years of Zermelo’s axiom of choice: What was the problem with it? - 2006 research.mietek.io - 102 comments 104 points
  17. Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents Against Prompt Injections simonwillison.net - 23 comments 99 points
  18. When random people give money to random other people - 2017 quomodocumque.wordpress.com - 60 comments 85 points
  19. The Emperor’s New LLM dayafter.substack.com - 54 comments 84 points
  20. The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers - 2024 www.nhatcher.com - 5 comments 84 points
  21. MUMPS en.wikipedia.org - 65 comments 83 points
  22. Using computers more freely and safely - 2023 akkartik.name - 15 comments 80 points
  23. The Missing Manual for Signals: State Management for Python Developers bui.app - 34 comments 76 points
  24. How the Alzheimer’s Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years - 2022 www.discovermagazine.com - 43 comments 73 points
  25. U.S. Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels taskandpurpose.com - 58 comments 72 points
  26. Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper github.com - 38 comments 64 points
  27. Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica www.psu.edu - 23 comments 61 points
  28. The Claude Bliss Attractor www.astralcodexten.com - 1 comments 58 points
  29. $100 Hamburger en.wikipedia.org - 11 comments 55 points
  30. Anne Wojcicki Wins Bidding for 23andMe www.wsj.com - 24 comments 53 points