Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-06

  1. Local-first software - 2019 www.inkandswitch.com - 208 comments 649 points
  2. Hidden interface controls are affecting usability interactions.acm.org - 165 comments 319 points
  3. The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon blog.thenewoil.org - 190 comments 189 points
  4. Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately www.thealgorithmicbridge.com - 205 comments 188 points
  5. Stop Killing Games www.jeffgeerling.com - 136 comments 176 points
  6. Europe’s first geostationary sounder satellite is launched www.eumetsat.int - 38 comments 176 points
  7. ‘Positive review only’: Researchers hide AI prompts in papers asia.nikkei.com - 124 comments 173 points
  8. macOS Icon History basicappleguy.com - 66 comments 166 points
  9. Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale elijahpotter.dev - 73 comments 162 points
  10. Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing www.smithsonianmag.com - 52 comments 159 points
  11. A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science initcoder.com - 157 comments 154 points
  12. Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban www.lemonde.fr - 73 comments 130 points
  13. Why Tesla’s cars keep crashing www.theguardian.com - 69 comments 128 points
  14. How to Network as an Introvert aginfer.bearblog.dev - 57 comments 127 points
  15. What a Hacker Stole from Me mynoise.net - 30 comments 115 points
  16. Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights? arxiv.org - 93 comments 110 points
  17. Speeding up PostgreSQL dump/restore snapshots xata.io - 22 comments 106 points
  18. How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently mrsteinberg.com - 110 comments 105 points
  19. The messy reality of SIMD - vector functions johnnysswlab.com - 66 comments 103 points
  20. Cops in - Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer www.androidauthority.com - 62 comments 88 points
  21. Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin simonwillison.net - 54 comments 85 points
  22. Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux – 16 years today www.gamingonlinux.com - 7 comments 81 points
  23. The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 www.techradar.com - 40 comments 79 points
  24. A new law in Sweden makes it illegal to buy custom adult content www.euronews.com - 90 comments 78 points
  25. Optimizing Tool Selection for LLM Workflows with Differentiable Programming viksit.substack.com - 32 comments 78 points
  26. Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI www.lawfaremedia.org - 27 comments 78 points
  27. Heart attacks aren’t as fatal as they used to be www.vox.com - 74 comments 77 points
  28. Pet ownership and cognitive functioning in later adulthood across pet types www.nature.com - 27 comments 77 points
  29. A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab venturebeat.com - 22 comments 75 points
  30. Basically Everyone Should Be Avoiding Docker lukesmith.xyz - 67 comments 74 points