Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-07-30

  1. Study mode openai.com - 575 comments 823 points
  2. M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued earthquake.usgs.gov - 144 comments 558 points
  3. My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now - GLM-4.5 Air simonwillison.net - 328 comments 489 points
  4. Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations wikimediafoundation.org - 175 comments 368 points
  5. Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300% www.science.org - 174 comments 364 points
  6. Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds” blog.kilocode.ai - 325 comments 348 points
  7. Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language www.ponylang.io - 232 comments 273 points
  8. The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025 www.techradar.com - 228 comments 247 points
  9. Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC maruos.com - 151 comments 231 points
  10. Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game www.kathaaverse.com - 87 comments 221 points
  11. Learning basic electronics by building fireflies a64.in - 60 comments 221 points
  12. RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession japanesenostalgiccar.com - 40 comments 215 points
  13. ACM Transitions to Full Open Access www.acm.org - 16 comments 202 points
  14. iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras candid9.com - 243 comments 201 points
  15. Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview observablehq.com - 47 comments 201 points
  16. Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer’s account without warning, rejects appeal www.neowin.net - 81 comments 190 points
  17. More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves news.uoguelph.ca - 121 comments 187 points
  18. UK Online Safety Act sends VPN use soaring www.wired.com - 1 comments 184 points
  19. Launch HN: Hyprnote - YC S25 – An open-source AI meeting notetaker news.ycombinator.com - 87 comments 177 points
  20. Linux Performance Analysis - 2015 netflixtechblog.com - 36 comments 170 points
  21. URL-Driven State in HTMX www.lorenstew.art - 57 comments 153 points
  22. Linux 6.16: faster file systems, improved confidential memory, more Rust support www.zdnet.com - 44 comments 137 points
  23. Nothing to watch – Experimental gallery visualizing 50k film posters nothing-to-watch.port80.ch - 69 comments 135 points
  24. Show HN: Terminal-Bench-RL: Training long-horizon terminal agents with RL github.com - 10 comments 112 points
  25. Elements of System Design github.com - 34 comments 110 points
  26. The hit film about overworked nurses that’s causing alarm across Europe www.theguardian.com - 115 comments 109 points
  27. Webflow Down for >31 Hours status.webflow.com - 60 comments 108 points
  28. Learning Is Slower Than You Think nisheethvishnoi.substack.com - 99 comments 104 points
  29. How the brain increases blood flow on demand hms.harvard.edu - 45 comments 97 points
  30. A month using XMPP - using Snikket for every call and chat (2023) neilzone.co.uk - 54 comments 96 points