Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-21

  1. XMLUI blog.jonudell.net - 259 comments 500 points
  2. Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update antirez.com - 317 comments 462 points
  3. The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality english.elpais.com - 697 comments 385 points
  4. LLM architecture comparison magazine.sebastianraschka.com - 23 comments 379 points
  5. The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production utkarshkanwat.com - 225 comments 378 points
  6. Tough news for our UK users blog.janitorai.com - 240 comments 273 points
  7. FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code www.tomshardware.com - 79 comments 253 points
  8. Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling news.samsung.com - 165 comments 234 points
  9. Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US’ brusselssignal.eu - 104 comments 207 points
  10. Async I/O on Linux in databases blog.canoozie.net - 91 comments 192 points
  11. AI is killing the web – can anything save it? www.economist.com - 218 comments 183 points
  12. A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab - 2006 davidweiss.blogspot.com - 29 comments 179 points
  13. How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale www.aol.com - 635 comments 178 points
  14. Speeding up my ZSH shell scottspence.com - 80 comments 165 points
  15. Payment processors’ bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy - 2024 automaton-media.com - 107 comments 162 points
  16. Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language blender-mcp-psi.vercel.app - 60 comments 148 points
  17. A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability mathstodon.xyz - 28 comments 137 points
  18. Stdio- 3 change: FILE is now opaque undeadly.org - 53 comments 129 points
  19. EU commissioner shocked by dangers of some goods sold by Shein and Temu www.theguardian.com - 111 comments 114 points
  20. Replit AI deletes entire database during code freeze, then lies about it twitter.com - 30 comments 112 points
  21. Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map github.com - 45 comments 110 points
  22. Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen - 2020 mattlakeman.org - 35 comments 109 points
  23. “I noticed a clear violation of our contributing guidelines” github.com - 61 comments 95 points
  24. Agents built from alloys xbow.com - 44 comments 92 points
  25. Subreply – An open source text-only social network github.com - 47 comments 89 points
  26. Insights on Teufel’s first open-source speaker blog.teufelaudio.com - 17 comments 87 points
  27. The old Caveman Chemistry website - 1996-2000 cavemanchemistry.com - 10 comments 79 points
  28. Hacking a Toniebox www.schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de - 36 comments 78 points
  29. Log by time, not by count johnscolaro.xyz - 24 comments 75 points
  30. Claude Jailbroken to Mint Unlimited Stripe Coupons www.generalanalysis.com - 45 comments 73 points