Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-22

  1. AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is ‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard’ www.theregister.com - 502 comments 1264 points
  2. Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears www.telegraph.co.uk - 771 comments 723 points
  3. AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions github.com - 333 comments 593 points
  4. DeepSeek-v3.1 api-docs.deepseek.com - 98 comments 417 points
  5. 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30B Generative AI Spend thedailyadda.com - 407 comments 396 points
  6. Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems blog.trailofbits.com - 97 comments 358 points
  7. Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says arstechnica.com - 114 comments 282 points
  8. I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform old.reddit.com - 187 comments 279 points
  9. Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit emersion.fr - 93 comments 262 points
  10. How well does the money laundering control system work? www.journals.uchicago.edu - 235 comments 228 points
  11. Code formatting comes to uv experimentally pydevtools.com - 132 comments 218 points
  12. AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders www.theregister.com - 130 comments 216 points
  13. Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables arxiv.org - 45 comments 207 points
  14. CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations ips-dc.org - 209 comments 206 points
  15. Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license unity.com - 97 comments 204 points
  16. Margin debt surges to record high www.advisorperspectives.com - 275 comments 202 points
  17. The contrarian physics podcast subculture timothynguyen.org - 206 comments 180 points
  18. Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory - PoC github.com - 42 comments 179 points
  19. Crimes with Python’s Pattern Matching - 2022 www.hillelwayne.com - 66 comments 173 points
  20. The Core of Rust jyn.dev - 135 comments 157 points
  21. The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off www.wsj.com - 44 comments 157 points
  22. How does the US use water? www.construction-physics.com - 132 comments 139 points
  23. Control shopping cart wheels with your phone - 2021 www.begaydocrime.com - 25 comments 135 points
  24. Privately-Owned Rail Cars www.amtrak.com - 173 comments 132 points
  25. Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as ‘chaotic’ tariff deadline looms www.abc.net.au - 164 comments 130 points
  26. Building AI products in the probabilistic era giansegato.com - 62 comments 119 points
  27. The unbearable slowness of AI coding joshuavaldez.com - 86 comments 117 points
  28. My other email client is a daemon feyor.sh - 17 comments 114 points
  29. Why is D3 so Verbose? theheasman.com - 64 comments 106 points
  30. In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses www.technologyreview.com - 145 comments 105 points