Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-02

  1. Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations cpb.org - 527 comments 565 points
  2. Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills hadid.dev - 470 comments 464 points
  3. Gemini 2.5 Deep Think blog.google - 219 comments 433 points
  4. The untold impact of cancellation pretty.direct - 384 comments 324 points
  5. At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery www.quantamagazine.org - 129 comments 284 points
  6. Cerebras Code www.cerebras.ai - 106 comments 264 points
  7. Replacing tmux in my dev workflow bower.sh - 284 comments 253 points
  8. Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them - 2023 dewesoft.com - 108 comments 253 points
  9. NSF has suspended Terry Tao’s grant bsky.app - 316 comments 251 points
  10. Our Farewell from Google Play secuso.aifb.kit.edu - 98 comments 242 points
  11. I couldn’t submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself www.skeptrune.com - 136 comments 225 points
  12. Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved blog.google - 156 comments 211 points
  13. Atlassian terminates 150 staff www.cyberdaily.au - 154 comments 203 points
  14. FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime reason.com - 106 comments 203 points
  15. OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation www.nytimes.com - 220 comments 190 points
  16. IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’ www.theverge.com - 186 comments 190 points
  17. Anthropic revokes OpenAI’s access to Claude www.wired.com - 58 comments 180 points
  18. Tesla must pay portion of $329M damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says www.cnbc.com - 165 comments 178 points
  19. Belgium bans Internet Archive’s ‘Open Library’ torrentfreak.com - 76 comments 176 points
  20. Ask HN: Who is hiring? - August 2025 news.ycombinator.com - 201 comments 174 points
  21. Coffeematic PC – A coffee maker computer that pumps hot coffee to the CPU www.dougmacdowell.com - 39 comments 155 points
  22. Long Term Support www.sqlite.org - 47 comments 153 points
  23. U.S. fires statistics chief after soft jobs report www.politico.com - 60 comments 143 points
  24. OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face twitter.com - 66 comments 126 points
  25. How did Facebook intercept competitor’s encrypted mobile app traffic? - 2024 haxrob.net - 49 comments 123 points
  26. Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits? www.dbreunig.com - 62 comments 117 points
  27. GPT-5 is already - ostensibly available via API old.reddit.com - 37 comments 116 points
  28. Deep Agents blog.langchain.com - 36 comments 114 points
  29. Native Sparse Attention aclanthology.org - 13 comments 105 points
  30. Hyrum’s Law www.hyrumslaw.com - 59 comments 104 points