Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-12

  1. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation www.theverge.com - 803 comments 1105 points
  2. I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file www.al3rez.com - 567 comments 951 points
  3. Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act www.bbc.com - 548 comments 725 points
  4. Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations wikimediafoundation.org - 3 comments 627 points
  5. Claude Code is all you need dwyer.co.za - 316 comments 583 points
  6. The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report issues.chromium.org - 255 comments 493 points
  7. Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel and Meta archive.org - 157 comments 440 points
  8. OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography www.openssh.com - 103 comments 387 points
  9. Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police www.nytimes.com - 408 comments 348 points
  10. GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM old.reddit.com - 75 comments 232 points
  11. Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs pricingpages.design - 59 comments 209 points
  12. Hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts aman.ai - 18 comments 204 points
  13. Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess planetscale.com - 26 comments 183 points
  14. AOL to discontinue dial-up internet www.nytimes.com - 184 comments 179 points
  15. Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig aarol.dev - 54 comments 179 points
  16. GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding - ARC Foundation Models - pdf www.arxiv.org - 16 comments 177 points
  17. Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev blog.kilocode.ai - 140 comments 173 points
  18. Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub github.blog - 101 comments 168 points
  19. Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer middlelayer.substack.com - 96 comments 151 points
  20. The value of institutional memory timharford.com - 74 comments 138 points
  21. 36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens academic.oup.com - 93 comments 132 points
  22. Ollama and gguf github.com - 53 comments 125 points
  23. I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI twitter.com - 76 comments 116 points
  24. Japan’s largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations www.niemanlab.org - 42 comments 115 points
  25. Reddit will block the Internet Archive www.theverge.com - 33 comments 113 points
  26. Show HN: I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python github.com - 16 comments 107 points
  27. Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live opuslabs.substack.com - 16 comments 106 points
  28. Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed www.cnbc.com - 11 comments 98 points
  29. The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown deanebarker.net - 35 comments 96 points
  30. The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences - pdf www.sas.upenn.edu - 257 comments 95 points