Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-13

  1. Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context www.anthropic.com - 559 comments 1030 points
  2. Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com - 220 comments 468 points
  3. Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com - 671 comments 442 points
  4. Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings blog.wilsonl.in - 67 comments 431 points
  5. Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive www.ghacks.net - 135 comments 347 points
  6. GitHub was having issues www.githubstatus.com - 212 comments 336 points
  7. Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable arxiv.org - 256 comments 261 points
  8. Search all text in New York City www.alltext.nyc - 54 comments 250 points
  9. Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere github.com - 117 comments 240 points
  10. Ashet Home Computer ashet.computer - 50 comments 228 points
  11. Go 1.25 Release Notes go.dev - 50 comments 194 points
  12. Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome www.wsj.com - 110 comments 177 points
  13. That viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is a fake www.theverge.com - 142 comments 175 points
  14. Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot jszym.com - 101 comments 160 points
  15. Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens arstechnica.com - 127 comments 157 points
  16. H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House www.newsweek.com - 216 comments 145 points
  17. WHY2025: How to become your own ISP - video media.ccc.de - 15 comments 143 points
  18. Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context every.to - 40 comments 139 points
  19. Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified www.qodo.ai - 47 comments 134 points
  20. UK government advises deleting emails to save water www.gov.uk - 133 comments 131 points
  21. Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils tangled.sh - 35 comments 119 points
  22. Syncthing 2.0 Released github.com - 23 comments 114 points
  23. Let’s get real about the one-person billion dollar company www.marcrand.com - 137 comments 113 points
  24. Radicle 1.3.0 radicle.xyz - 10 comments 108 points
  25. The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook’s content policy - 2022 mronline.org - 74 comments 106 points
  26. Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? www.newyorker.com - 96 comments 104 points
  27. Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures entropicthoughts.com - 63 comments 96 points
  28. Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale blog.opensecret.cloud - 61 comments 93 points
  29. Outside of the top stocks, S&P 500 forward profits haven’t grown in 3 years insight-public.sgmarkets.com - 94 comments 92 points
  30. The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know deanebarker.net - 61 comments 87 points