Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-15

  1. Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI developers.googleblog.com - 193 comments 475 points
  2. Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness yro.slashdot.org - 262 comments 395 points
  3. Meta accessed women’s health data from Flo app without consent, says court www.malwarebytes.com - 190 comments 362 points
  4. Why LLMs can’t really build software zed.dev - 239 comments 347 points
  5. Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian lwn.net - 115 comments 337 points
  6. Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US www.apple.com - 223 comments 310 points
  7. “None of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of FL’s Book Ban Bill bookriot.com - 395 comments 286 points
  8. Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy www.kodak.com - 124 comments 275 points
  9. US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years www.bloomberg.com - 322 comments 268 points
  10. Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy www.theguardian.com - 260 comments 266 points
  11. New protein therapy shows promise as antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning www.medschool.umaryland.edu - 47 comments 203 points
  12. “Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit pluralistic.net - 137 comments 193 points
  13. Linux address space isolation revived after lowering performance hit www.phoronix.com - 48 comments 176 points
  14. Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode github.com - 1 comments 158 points
  15. I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer danielchasehooper.com - 44 comments 155 points
  16. NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem allenai.org - 81 comments 148 points
  17. Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer github.com - 32 comments 136 points
  18. iPhone DevOps - 2023 clearsky.dev - 121 comments 132 points
  19. How to rig elections - video media.ccc.de - 100 comments 127 points
  20. Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? www.seangoedecke.com - 103 comments 117 points
  21. Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected www.cnbc.com - 105 comments 113 points
  22. Jujutsu and Radicle radicle.xyz - 77 comments 111 points
  23. Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York www.reuters.com - 70 comments 103 points
  24. Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor www.thepinknews.com - 28 comments 95 points
  25. We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application mitchellh.com - 26 comments 87 points
  26. Show HN: OWhisper – Ollama for realtime speech-to-text docs.hyprnote.com - 26 comments 79 points
  27. Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies bsky.social - 103 comments 73 points
  28. Passion over Profits dillonshook.com - 51 comments 69 points
  29. Convo-Lang: LLM Programming Language and Runtime learn.convo-lang.ai - 30 comments 67 points
  30. Meta Leaks Part 2: How to Kill a Social Movement archive.org - 11 comments 60 points