Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-28

  1. Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance’s VSCode fork github.com - 282 comments 791 points
  2. Dumb Pipe www.dumbpipe.dev - 149 comments 667 points
  3. Tom Lehrer has died www.nytimes.com - 89 comments 522 points
  4. EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google www.reddit.com - 266 comments 507 points
  5. When we get Komooted bikepacking.com - 227 comments 426 points
  6. Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs www.geoffreylitt.com - 86 comments 294 points
  7. Hierarchical Reasoning Model arxiv.org - 88 comments 287 points
  8. Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops www.linaro.org - 192 comments 273 points
  9. Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack techcrunch.com - 131 comments 236 points
  10. Making Postgres slower byteofdev.com - 21 comments 226 points
  11. Claude Code is a slot machine rgoldfinger.com - 235 comments 221 points
  12. Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study news.exeter.ac.uk - 141 comments 197 points
  13. I hacked my washing machine nexy.blog - 70 comments 187 points
  14. The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade buttondown.com - 73 comments 174 points
  15. Show HN: Windows 7 GUI for the web khang-nd.github.io - 59 comments 162 points
  16. Ask HN: What are you working on? - July 2025 news.ycombinator.com - 463 comments 161 points
  17. Why does a fire truck cost $2m thehustle.co - 144 comments 160 points
  18. The JJ VCS workshop: A zero-to-hero speedrun github.com - 11 comments 113 points
  19. GPT might be an information virus - 2023 nonint.com - 84 comments 95 points
  20. VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in www.ft.com - 36 comments 89 points
  21. US Government takes $1B from nuclear modernization for gold-plated jet www.nytimes.com - 36 comments 88 points
  22. No AI Content eclecticlight.co - 87 comments 84 points
  23. Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels lithub.com - 60 comments 82 points
  24. Is Jeff Bezos killing The Washington Post on purpose or by accident? www.thebulwark.com - 42 comments 64 points
  25. Constrained languages are easier to optimize jyn.dev - 61 comments 61 points
  26. IBM Keyboard Patents sharktastica.co.uk - 4 comments 57 points
  27. Wikipedia: Signs of AI Writing en.wikipedia.org - 18 comments 55 points
  28. Jeff Bezos doesn’t believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree texttoslides.ai - 89 comments 54 points
  29. No olu.online - 18 comments 52 points
  30. ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea github.com - 24 comments 51 points