Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-19

  1. Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games www.pcgamer.com - 390 comments 368 points
  2. lsr: ls with io_uring rockorager.dev - 154 comments 321 points
  3. NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester www.thecity.nyc - 166 comments 286 points
  4. AI capex is so big that it’s affecting economic statistics paulkedrosky.com - 272 comments 268 points
  5. Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients - 2016 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - 251 comments 260 points
  6. ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data www.wired.com - 277 comments 253 points
  7. CP/M creator Gary Kildall’s memoirs released as free download spectrum.ieee.org - 132 comments 241 points
  8. Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis www.sciencenews.org - 117 comments 233 points
  9. Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on? news.ycombinator.com - 171 comments 230 points
  10. How I keep up with AI progress blog.nilenso.com - 101 comments 229 points
  11. Asynchrony is not concurrency kristoff.it - 144 comments 215 points
  12. Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page imgur.com - 43 comments 193 points
  13. LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats www.neowin.net - 110 comments 176 points
  14. Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach www.cnbc.com - 209 comments 171 points
  15. Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy www.biocentury.com - 69 comments 160 points
  16. My Ultimate Self-Hosting Setup codecaptured.com - 55 comments 153 points
  17. Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given twitter.com - 139 comments 150 points
  18. DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results techcrunch.com - 58 comments 147 points
  19. EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm www.nytimes.com - 113 comments 146 points
  20. I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA news.ycombinator.com - 249 comments 145 points
  21. Section 174 is reversed, mostly newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com - 79 comments 135 points
  22. How to write Rust in the Linux kernel: part 3 lwn.net - 0 comments 135 points
  23. Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts github.com - 75 comments 133 points
  24. When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering rsadowski.de - 42 comments 132 points
  25. Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware lists.archlinux.org - 122 comments 129 points
  26. Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich - 1983 www.davidtinapple.com - 25 comments 129 points
  27. H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022 twitter.com - 187 comments 126 points
  28. ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year www.npr.org - 158 comments 126 points
  29. Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit “paid the beak” consolebytes.com - 18 comments 120 points
  30. French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution www.lemonde.fr - 102 comments 115 points