Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-10

  1. Debian 13 “Trixie” www.debian.org - 234 comments 643 points
  2. Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient sky.dlazaro.ca - 122 comments 611 points
  3. OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second blog.hyperknot.com - 85 comments 429 points
  4. My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup simonwillison.net - 87 comments 324 points
  5. MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems julsimon.medium.com - 166 comments 319 points
  6. Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution linked to increased risk of dementia www.cam.ac.uk - 83 comments 281 points
  7. Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread www.usda.gov - 193 comments 250 points
  8. GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it garymarcus.substack.com - 192 comments 231 points
  9. How I code with AI on a budget/free wuu73.org - 70 comments 219 points
  10. A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor’s ceramic package www.righto.com - 72 comments 204 points
  11. Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants www.forbes.com - 386 comments 201 points
  12. Happy BuyNothing Day justbuynothing.com - 46 comments 181 points
  13. Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI github.com - 70 comments 174 points
  14. Ratfactor’s illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets ratfactor.com - 24 comments 173 points
  15. The dead need right to delete their data so they can’t be AI-ified, lawyer says www.theregister.com - 108 comments 166 points
  16. Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications research.eye.security - 37 comments 164 points
  17. Sandstorm- self-hostable web productivity suite sandstorm.org - 36 comments 157 points
  18. A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union laurivahtre.ee - 292 comments 135 points
  19. Partially Matching Zig Enums matklad.github.io - 106 comments 134 points
  20. Ch.at – a lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API ch.at - 38 comments 132 points
  21. ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol github.com - 25 comments 123 points
  22. Knuth on ChatGPT - 2023 cs.stanford.edu - 43 comments 117 points
  23. GPTs and Feeling Left Behind whynothugo.nl - 75 comments 116 points
  24. Did California’s fast food minimum wage reduce employment? www.nber.org - 227 comments 111 points
  25. An engineer’s perspective on hiring jyn.dev - 103 comments 97 points
  26. Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight www.bmj.com - 89 comments 93 points
  27. Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths arxiv.org - 3 comments 93 points
  28. The current state of LLM-driven development blog.tolki.dev - 61 comments 91 points
  29. Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution www.tribblix.org - 31 comments 89 points
  30. I prefer human-readable file formats adele.pollux.casa - 70 comments 86 points