Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-01

  1. Slow michaelnotebook.com - 168 comments 684 points
  2. How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created? movies.stackexchange.com - 67 comments 487 points
  3. MacBook Pro Insomnia manuel.bernhardt.io - 174 comments 366 points
  4. Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided digitalcourage.social - 250 comments 351 points
  5. I tried Servo www.spacebar.news - 223 comments 332 points
  6. The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong www.derekthompson.org - 419 comments 297 points
  7. AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser elroy.bot - 165 comments 277 points
  8. Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting lazyadmin.nl - 219 comments 271 points
  9. Introduction to Computer Music cmtext.com - 70 comments 264 points
  10. Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea www.krea.ai - 84 comments 249 points
  11. Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market denverite.com - 273 comments 245 points
  12. U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, “Block BEARD” torrentfreak.com - 226 comments 245 points
  13. QUIC for the kernel lwn.net - 177 comments 233 points
  14. So you’re a manager now scottkosman.com - 162 comments 230 points
  15. Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering developers.googleblog.com - 70 comments 205 points
  16. Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban www.cbsnews.com - 163 comments 180 points
  17. Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won’t hurt you mjg59.dreamwidth.org - 63 comments 119 points
  18. Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ docs.carbon-lang.dev - 110 comments 112 points
  19. Show HN: Mcp-use – Connect any LLM to any MCP github.com - 58 comments 110 points
  20. What is gVisor? blog.yelinaung.com - 51 comments 105 points
  21. Kaleidos – A portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators radiantnuclear.com - 142 comments 102 points
  22. Orion Browser kagi.com - 92 comments 102 points
  23. The Chrome Speculation Rules API allows the browser to preload and prerender www.docuseal.com - 75 comments 97 points
  24. Dark patterns www.nsw.gov.au - 41 comments 97 points
  25. GEPA: Reflective prompt evolution can outperform reinforcement learning arxiviq.substack.com - 24 comments 89 points
  26. Ursa: A leaderless, object storage–based alternative to Kafka streamnative.io - 31 comments 88 points
  27. A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the AI Bubble fluxus.io - 65 comments 75 points
  28. “No tax on tips” is an industry plant www.newyorker.com - 84 comments 70 points
  29. Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents chat.agentmail.to - 45 comments 70 points
  30. How to trigger a command on Linux when power switches from AC to battery dataswamp.org - 39 comments 68 points