Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-22

  1. TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook’s trackpad into a digital weighing scale github.com - 128 comments 513 points
  2. Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO deepmind.google - 220 comments 489 points
  3. UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US arstechnica.com - 331 comments 479 points
  4. AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks accounting.penrose.com - 113 comments 442 points
  5. What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks? www.lumafield.com - 176 comments 366 points
  6. Uv: Running a script with dependencies docs.astral.sh - 70 comments 241 points
  7. Don’t bother parsing: Just use images for RAG www.morphik.ai - 63 comments 233 points
  8. We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication www.paradedb.com - 48 comments 214 points
  9. New records on Wendelstein 7-X www.iter.org - 89 comments 210 points
  10. FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices arstechnica.com - 111 comments 186 points
  11. Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly www.volts.wtf - 257 comments 180 points
  12. Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steams new censorship rules www.pcgamer.com - 153 comments 172 points
  13. Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people’s mail the418.substack.com - 167 comments 167 points
  14. Shale Drillers Turn on Each Other as Toxic Water Leaks Hit Biggest US Oil Field www.bloomberg.com - 64 comments 167 points
  15. LetsEncrypt Outage letsencrypt.status.io - 73 comments 162 points
  16. What happens when housing prices go down? clmarohn.substack.com - 317 comments 152 points
  17. Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq github.com - 44 comments 145 points
  18. 12ft.io Taken Down www.newsmediaalliance.org - 114 comments 143 points
  19. Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB www.grisp.org - 8 comments 136 points
  20. I’ve launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing that again www.indiehackers.com - 118 comments 135 points
  21. SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management devenv.sh - 33 comments 125 points
  22. AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work www.quantamagazine.org - 44 comments 122 points
  23. A conceptual overview of asyncio github.com - 23 comments 122 points
  24. How to handle people dismissing io_uring as insecure? - 2024 github.com - 104 comments 120 points
  25. Jujutsu for busy devs maddie.wtf - 108 comments 117 points
  26. The Game Genie Generation tedium.co - 49 comments 115 points
  27. Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database, faked data, told fibs www.theregister.com - 67 comments 110 points
  28. India: Income Tax Bill allows officials to forcibly access social media, email www.thehindu.com - 65 comments 110 points
  29. I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – I’m a citizen www.theregister.com - 87 comments 109 points
  30. If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading? hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com - 87 comments 104 points