Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-05

  1. Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives blog.cloudflare.com - 582 comments 1056 points
  2. Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display benholmen.com - 122 comments 881 points
  3. Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com - 798 comments 549 points
  4. Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down www.pcgamer.com - 534 comments 545 points
  5. Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash electrek.co - 224 comments 460 points
  6. Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering qwenlm.github.io - 101 comments 388 points
  7. Objects should shut up dustri.org - 263 comments 360 points
  8. DrawAFish.com Postmortem aldenhallak.com - 72 comments 305 points
  9. How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast v8.dev - 77 comments 283 points
  10. Palantir is extending its reach even further into government www.wired.com - 227 comments 249 points
  11. Show HN: I’ve been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years github.com - 64 comments 194 points
  12. PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming deprogrammaticaipsum.com - 173 comments 171 points
  13. Read your code etsd.tech - 99 comments 169 points
  14. AI promised efficiency. Instead, it’s making us work harder afterburnout.co - 136 comments 164 points
  15. Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? news.ycombinator.com - 246 comments 154 points
  16. I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking - 2023 www.vogue.com - 97 comments 147 points
  17. Projects evaluated to see if they’re as free and open source as advertised isitreallyfoss.com - 52 comments 143 points
  18. A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability notashes.me - 69 comments 140 points
  19. Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan’s coastline - 2015 www.smithsonianmag.com - 52 comments 140 points
  20. Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager danfabulich.medium.com - 107 comments 135 points
  21. KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland www.neowin.net - 66 comments 134 points
  22. My Ideal Array Language www.ashermancinelli.com - 55 comments 131 points
  23. Once a death sentence, cardiac amyloidosis is finally treatable www.nytimes.com - 18 comments 130 points
  24. HTMX is hard, so let’s get it right github.com - 124 comments 129 points
  25. Offline.kids – Screen-free activities for kids offline.kids - 65 comments 129 points
  26. Content-Aware Spaced Repetition www.giacomoran.com - 25 comments 126 points
  27. Customizing tmux evgeniipendragon.com - 98 comments 122 points
  28. NASA’s Curiosity picks up new skills www.jpl.nasa.gov - 39 comments 121 points
  29. Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras thingino.com - 18 comments 113 points
  30. GHz spiking neuromorphic photonic chip with in-situ training arxiv.org - 17 comments 111 points