Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-17

  1. Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA ostechnix.com - 556 comments 912 points
  2. Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer prm.ua - 419 comments 611 points
  3. I’m switching to Python and actually liking it www.cesarsotovalero.net - 583 comments 391 points
  4. Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141 mozillagfx.wordpress.com - 151 comments 361 points
  5. Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century www.newscientist.com - 79 comments 324 points
  6. Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction techcrunch.com - 224 comments 284 points
  7. Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension github.com - 71 comments 284 points
  8. I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone - 2022 smallandroidphone.com - 246 comments 186 points
  9. Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids tincan.kids - 118 comments 169 points
  10. Young graduates are facing an employment crisis www.wsj.com - 277 comments 166 points
  11. Show HN: Improving search ranking with chess Elo scores www.zeroentropy.dev - 48 comments 147 points
  12. Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories drew.silcock.dev - 34 comments 145 points
  13. “Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps www.smithsonianmag.com - 45 comments 140 points
  14. Thankyou for Loving Firefox - 2022 connect.mozilla.org - 6 comments 130 points
  15. Intel’s retreat is unlike anything it’s done before in Oregon www.oregonlive.com - 186 comments 124 points
  16. PyPI Prohibits inbox.ru email domain registrations blog.pypi.org - 95 comments 122 points
  17. Gaslight-driven development tonsky.me - 82 comments 119 points
  18. Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk www.sciencealert.com - 119 comments 118 points
  19. How and where will agents ship software? www.instantdb.com - 56 comments 118 points
  20. Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety arxiv.org - 50 comments 112 points
  21. Show HN: A ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ written in Emacs Org Mode tendollaradventure.com - 10 comments 100 points
  22. The Italian towns selling houses for €1 www.theguardian.com - 92 comments 88 points
  23. Mill: A better build tool for Java, Scala, and Kotlin mill-build.org - 68 comments 77 points
  24. Show HN: An MCP server that gives LLMs temporal awareness and time calculation github.com - 36 comments 76 points
  25. cppyy: Automatic Python-C++ Bindings cppyy.readthedocs.io - 17 comments 74 points
  26. Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY blog.pupred.com - 72 comments 71 points
  27. KX Community Edition www.defconq.tech - 35 comments 65 points
  28. I was wrong about robots.txt evgeniipendragon.com - 51 comments 64 points
  29. Mkosi – Build Bespoke OS Images mkosi.systemd.io - 16 comments 61 points
  30. ‘Gentle parenting’ my smartphone addiction www.newyorker.com - 41 comments 57 points