Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-12

  1. At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says www.nytimes.com - 488 comments 589 points
  2. OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google www.theverge.com - 354 comments 573 points
  3. Bill Atkinson’s psychedelic user interface patternproject.substack.com - 211 comments 398 points
  4. ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure ethz.ch - 49 comments 390 points
  5. Apple vs the Law formularsumo.co.uk - 367 comments 363 points
  6. Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini’s storage for half the price www.jeffgeerling.com - 210 comments 332 points
  7. Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery - 2024 www.npr.org - 160 comments 330 points
  8. I’m done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now www.carolinecrampton.com - 270 comments 268 points
  9. Recovering from AI addiction internetaddictsanonymous.org - 270 comments 241 points
  10. Pa. House passes ‘click-to-cancel’ subscription bills www.pennlive.com - 82 comments 237 points
  11. FP8 is ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has “cutlass” in it twitter.com - 102 comments 227 points
  12. jank is C++ jank-lang.org - 72 comments 221 points
  13. In a First, Solar Was Europe’s Biggest Source of Power Last Month e360.yale.edu - 144 comments 219 points
  14. Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses craigmod.com - 418 comments 209 points
  15. OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser openfront.io - 50 comments 203 points
  16. Preliminary report into Air India crash released www.bbc.co.uk - 333 comments 202 points
  17. Repaste Your MacBook christianselig.com - 94 comments 199 points
  18. AI agent benchmarks are broken ddkang.substack.com - 81 comments 179 points
  19. Faking a JPEG www.ty-penguin.org.uk - 34 comments 157 points
  20. Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents github.com - 100 comments 155 points
  21. Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day github.com - 91 comments 149 points
  22. Kimi K2 twitter.com - 35 comments 144 points
  23. I’m more proud of these 128 kilobytes than anything I’ve built since medium.com - 41 comments 136 points
  24. Things I learned from 5 years at Vercel leerob.com - 41 comments 122 points
  25. FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors www.nytimes.com - 64 comments 118 points
  26. Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper www.science.org - 56 comments 113 points
  27. ‘Click-to-cancel’ rule is blocked apnews.com - 76 comments 102 points
  28. ‘123456’ password exposed chats for 64M McDonald’s job applicants www.bleepingcomputer.com - 54 comments 99 points
  29. OpenAI delays launch of open weights model twitter.com - 66 comments 98 points
  30. Slack’s 57MB 404 page a.slack.com - 77 comments 95 points