Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-14

  1. FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org - 292 comments 874 points
  2. Claude says “You’re absolutely right!” about everything github.com - 498 comments 695 points
  3. Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol blog.nginx.org - 209 comments 585 points
  4. This website is for humans localghost.dev - 289 comments 549 points
  5. PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh - 309 comments 547 points
  6. Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy www.washingtonpost.com - 171 comments 343 points
  7. New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients news.keckmedicine.org - 139 comments 310 points
  8. OCaml as my primary language xvw.lol - 167 comments 277 points
  9. We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online themarkup.org - 68 comments 277 points
  10. Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks www.blocked.org.uk - 272 comments 272 points
  11. Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal - video www.youtube.com - 198 comments 231 points
  12. So what’s the difference between plotted and printed artwork? lostpixels.io - 72 comments 227 points
  13. Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England news.sky.com - 314 comments 206 points
  14. When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army jackpoulson.substack.com - 212 comments 183 points
  15. Nearly 1 in 3 Starlink satellites detected within the SKA-Low frequency band astrobites.org - 173 comments 181 points
  16. Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal ericmigi.com - 1 comments 176 points
  17. I’m worried it might get bad danielmiessler.com - 219 comments 160 points
  18. UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans www.theregister.com - 1 comments 153 points
  19. Gartner’s grift is about to unravel dx.tips - 70 comments 146 points
  20. Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed arstechnica.com - 93 comments 141 points
  21. US national debt reaches a record $37T, the Treasury Department reports apnews.com - 126 comments 137 points
  22. Cross-Site Request Forgery words.filippo.io - 24 comments 124 points
  23. Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply www.newsweek.com - 76 comments 121 points
  24. NIST Finalizes ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ Standard to Protect Small Devices www.nist.gov - 67 comments 119 points
  25. April Fools 2014: The Real Test Driven Development - 2014 testing.googleblog.com - 26 comments 112 points
  26. A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it www.tomkranz.com - 89 comments 111 points
  27. Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in the Browser abacusnoir.com - 35 comments 105 points
  28. Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike www.reuters.com - 148 comments 101 points
  29. The Factory Timezone data.iana.org - 53 comments 98 points
  30. Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure techcrunch.com - 26 comments 96 points