Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-01

  1. The new skill in AI is not prompting, it’s context engineering www.philschmid.de - 274 comments 517 points
  2. Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion www.xfinity.com - 327 comments 497 points
  3. There are no new ideas in AI only new datasets blog.jxmo.io - 191 comments 385 points
  4. Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers proton.me - 319 comments 293 points
  5. I write type-safe generic data structures in C danielchasehooper.com - 100 comments 268 points
  6. Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI’s Tiktoken github.com - 71 comments 255 points
  7. Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta untested.sonnet.io - 81 comments 234 points
  8. Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus jsgroth.dev - 52 comments 213 points
  9. The provenance memory model for C gustedt.wordpress.com - 113 comments 211 points
  10. Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house www.sbs.com.au - 50 comments 192 points
  11. Ask HN: What’s the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI? news.ycombinator.com - 82 comments 185 points
  12. Want to meet people, try charging them for it? notes.eatonphil.com - 87 comments 183 points
  13. Claude Code now supports Hooks docs.anthropic.com - 54 comments 169 points
  14. The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port www.linaro.org - 22 comments 144 points
  15. Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved blog.pragmaticengineer.com - 39 comments 126 points
  16. Entry-level jobs down by a third since launch of ChatGPT www.personneltoday.com - 172 comments 120 points
  17. End of an Era www.erasmatazz.com - 31 comments 118 points
  18. Reverse Engineering Vercel’s BotID www.nullpt.rs - 18 comments 95 points
  19. Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg www.japantimes.co.jp - 150 comments 94 points
  20. The Email Startup Graveyard: Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail forwardemail.net - 43 comments 94 points
  21. They don’t make ’em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder kevinboone.me - 71 comments 85 points
  22. Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri www.bloomberg.com - 81 comments 81 points
  23. The original LZEXE - A.K.A. Kosinski compressor source code has been released clownacy.wordpress.com - 4 comments 81 points
  24. The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia www.sigops.org - 140 comments 76 points
  25. Auth for B2B SaaS: it’s not like auth for consumer software tesseral.com - 43 comments 72 points
  26. A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life spectrum.ieee.org - 78 comments 68 points
  27. Rust CLIs with Clap tucson-josh.com - 56 comments 67 points
  28. Printegrated Circuits: Merging 3D Printing and Electronics spectrum.ieee.org - 27 comments 67 points
  29. If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek? sfg.media - 156 comments 65 points
  30. The role of the University is to resist AI www.danmcquillan.org - 46 comments 63 points