Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-24

  1. Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos github.com - 66 comments 392 points
  2. What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai - 203 comments 268 points
  3. Line scan camera image processing for train photography daniel.lawrence.lu - 52 comments 261 points
  4. Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine github.com - 75 comments 252 points
  5. RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode www.tbray.org - 119 comments 233 points
  6. I’m too dumb for Zig’s new IO interface www.openmymind.net - 227 comments 195 points
  7. I made a floppy disk from scratch kottke.org - 72 comments 188 points
  8. Developer’s block underlap.org - 96 comments 178 points
  9. I hacked Monster Energy bobdahacker.com - 151 comments 175 points
  10. The cost of interrupted work - 2023 blog.oberien.de - 84 comments 156 points
  11. Romhack.ing’s Internet Archive Mirror No Longer Available romhack.ing - 24 comments 144 points
  12. Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++ gau-nernst.github.io - 32 comments 143 points
  13. The ROI of Exercise herman.bearblog.dev - 232 comments 140 points
  14. AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem www.vincirufus.com - 245 comments 121 points
  15. Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs lwn.net - 45 comments 120 points
  16. A 2k-year-old sun hat worn by a Roman soldier in Egypt www.smithsonianmag.com - 20 comments 110 points
  17. RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no www.nature.com - 107 comments 101 points
  18. Good EU regulations www.actuallygoodregulations.eu - 96 comments 95 points
  19. Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads libreantisocial.com - 133 comments 92 points
  20. Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year electrek.co - 74 comments 92 points
  21. World Wide Lightning Location Network wwlln.net - 33 comments 87 points
  22. How to build a coding agent ghuntley.com - 20 comments 87 points
  23. The West is bored to death www.newstatesman.com - 36 comments 70 points
  24. The F-35 is losing the trade war www.jalopnik.com - 110 comments 64 points
  25. Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25 mfbmina.dev - 43 comments 58 points
  26. The Amiga games and demo scene collection amiga.vision - 10 comments 58 points
  27. Show HN: Port Kill – A lightweight macOS status bar development port monitor github.com - 19 comments 43 points
  28. Building A16Z’s Personal AI Workstation a16z.com - 70 comments 41 points
  29. Show HN: I Made the Hardest Focus App apps.apple.com - 39 comments 41 points
  30. Europe’s Free-Speech Problem www.theatlantic.com - 33 comments 41 points