Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-16

  1. Reflections on OpenAI calv.info - 257 comments 488 points
  2. Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL www.matthieulc.com - 87 comments 439 points
  3. Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and “Everything else/other?” news.ycombinator.com - 343 comments 438 points
  4. To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head the-nerve-blog.ghost.io - 124 comments 297 points
  5. Blender 4.5 LTS www.blender.org - 87 comments 297 points
  6. NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock www.nist.gov - 102 comments 288 points
  7. Helix Editor 25.07 helix-editor.com - 127 comments 286 points
  8. Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users torrentfreak.com - 224 comments 215 points
  9. OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure requilence.any.org - 61 comments 199 points
  10. Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft securelist.com - 150 comments 171 points
  11. Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon github.com - 44 comments 152 points
  12. Where’s Firefox going next? connect.mozilla.org - 196 comments 149 points
  13. My Family and the Flood www.texasmonthly.com - 39 comments 143 points
  14. GPUHammer: Rowhammer attacks on GPU memories are practical gpuhammer.com - 40 comments 142 points
  15. Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography www.nubero.ch - 21 comments 142 points
  16. Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI www.neowin.net - 48 comments 140 points
  17. Claude for Financial Services www.anthropic.com - 74 comments 131 points
  18. Encrypting files with passkeys and age words.filippo.io - 2 comments 128 points
  19. The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module go.dev - 43 comments 127 points
  20. The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers’ Data with ICE www.propublica.org - 118 comments 108 points
  21. A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers www.propublica.org - 46 comments 104 points
  22. Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding www.reuters.com - 99 comments 99 points
  23. Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 blog.cloudflare.com - 28 comments 96 points
  24. Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts arstechnica.com - 48 comments 92 points
  25. Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they’ve been audited in the past 3 years www.theregister.com - 20 comments 85 points
  26. Six Years of Gemini geminiprotocol.net - 19 comments 85 points
  27. What caused the ‘baby boom’? What would it take to have another? www.derekthompson.org - 548 comments 84 points
  28. Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor www.liberalcurrents.com - 25 comments 83 points
  29. Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal www.juliascope.com - 24 comments 83 points
  30. Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex systemf.epfl.ch - 31 comments 75 points