Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-20

  1. A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page - 2022 endtimes.dev - 287 comments 453 points
  2. OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 twitter.com - 654 comments 440 points
  3. Fstrings.wtf fstrings.wtf - 125 comments 394 points
  4. Nobody knows how to build with AI yet worksonmymachine.substack.com - 249 comments 311 points
  5. It’s rude to show AI output to people distantprovince.by - 226 comments 289 points
  6. Death by AI davebarry.substack.com - 93 comments 248 points
  7. Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras www.eff.org - 103 comments 219 points
  8. Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia evanhahn.com - 116 comments 217 points
  9. Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts it-notes.dragas.net - 77 comments 217 points
  10. YouTube No Translation addons.mozilla.org - 96 comments 208 points
  11. The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust viralinstruction.com - 258 comments 183 points
  12. Pimping My Casio: Part Deux blog.jgc.org - 53 comments 174 points
  13. I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer lifehacky.net - 120 comments 169 points
  14. TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology www.taipeitimes.com - 110 comments 166 points
  15. What the Fuck Python colab.research.google.com - 152 comments 156 points
  16. MCP Security Vulnerabilities and Attack Vectors forgecode.dev - 17 comments 154 points
  17. Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI www.notcheckmark.com - 71 comments 152 points
  18. Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration lwn.net - 3 comments 137 points
  19. Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy www.theinternational.at - 91 comments 108 points
  20. ‘Universal cancer vaccine’ trains the immune system to kill any tumor newatlas.com - 38 comments 106 points
  21. Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org xn–gckvb8fzb.com - 97 comments 96 points
  22. New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation www.etany.org - 110 comments 82 points
  23. The curious case of the Unix workstation layout thejpster.org.uk - 26 comments 82 points
  24. Evaluating publicly available LLMs on IMO 2025 matharena.ai - 87 comments 73 points
  25. 2025 Infrastructure Report Card infrastructurereportcard.org - 30 comments 69 points
  26. Every part on a bicycle is safety critical escapecollective.com - 57 comments 68 points
  27. The tech that the US Post Office gave us www.theverge.com - 19 comments 67 points
  28. US revokes visas of Brazilian judges after crack down on ex-president Bolsonaro nypost.com - 59 comments 65 points
  29. Known Bad Email Clients www.emailprivacytester.com - 63 comments 60 points
  30. GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild twitter.com - 47 comments 60 points