Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-13

  1. MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today blog.decryption.net.au - 178 comments 840 points
  2. Bypassing Google’s big anti-adblock update 0x44.xyz - 495 comments 573 points
  3. Supreme Court’s ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online ellsberg.substack.com - 688 comments 543 points
  4. Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program Designed to Prevent Satellite Collisions skyandtelescope.org - 189 comments 328 points
  5. New Date- “wtf” – How well do you know JavaScript’s Date class? jsdate.wtf - 175 comments 311 points
  6. Kimi k2 largest open source SOTA model? github.com - 75 comments 300 points
  7. Arizona resident dies from the plague less than 24 hours after showing symptoms www.independent.co.uk - 127 comments 234 points
  8. Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach patchstack.com - 43 comments 209 points
  9. The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet - 2015 nautil.us - 135 comments 201 points
  10. Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods americansunlight.substack.com - 256 comments 184 points
  11. Commodore 64 Ultimate www.commodore.net - 114 comments 156 points
  12. Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python inventwithpython.com - 8 comments 141 points
  13. Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good atomic14.substack.com - 60 comments 137 points
  14. ICANN fumes as AFRINIC offers no explanation for annulled election www.theregister.com - 51 comments 137 points
  15. Working through ‘Writing A C Compiler’ jollygoodsw.wordpress.com - 32 comments 133 points
  16. Zig’s New Async I/O kristoff.it - 75 comments 111 points
  17. Light exposure at night predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases www.medrxiv.org - 61 comments 94 points
  18. Grok 4 Heavy Protects it’s System prompt simonwillison.net - 56 comments 78 points
  19. A better Ghidra MCP server – GhidrAssistMCP github.com - 13 comments 78 points
  20. Show HN: BinaryRPC – Lightweight WebSocket-based RPC framework in modern C++ github.com - 34 comments 72 points
  21. Show HN: DesignArena – crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated UI/UX www.designarena.ai - 20 comments 69 points
  22. Hacking Coroutines into C wiomoc.de - 15 comments 69 points
  23. ‘Starter packs’ have played a central role in Bluesky’s rapid growth www.tu-darmstadt.de - 51 comments 60 points
  24. I Messed Up My Google PM Vibe Coding Interview old.reddit.com - 33 comments 55 points
  25. XAI seeks up to $200B valuation in next fundraising www.ft.com - 68 comments 52 points
  26. Marc Andreesen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI www.washingtonpost.com - 38 comments 52 points
  27. Stone–Wales Transformations johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com - 6 comments 44 points
  28. MoonPay executives may have sent $250k to Nigerian scammer www.theblock.co - 6 comments 42 points
  29. OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome www.cnbc.com - 53 comments 41 points
  30. A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car www.nytimes.com - 55 comments 39 points