Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-30

  1. Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy www.anthropic.com - 494 comments 719 points
  2. Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it www.washingtonpost.com - 349 comments 603 points
  3. Do the simplest thing that could possibly work www.seangoedecke.com - 210 comments 545 points
  4. Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos www.zdnet.com - 224 comments 479 points
  5. The Synology End Game lowendbox.com - 327 comments 414 points
  6. If you have a Claude account, they’re going to train on your data moving forward old.reddit.com - 201 comments 387 points
  7. Grok Code Fast 1 x.ai - 391 comments 368 points
  8. The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch positiveblue.substack.com - 342 comments 347 points
  9. John Carmack’s arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta twitter.com - 347 comments 327 points
  10. Flunking my Anthropic interview again taylor.town - 277 comments 288 points
  11. Essential Coding Theory - pdf cse.buffalo.edu - 45 comments 282 points
  12. Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public practicalshootinginsights.com - 237 comments 280 points
  13. Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs lmsys.org - 63 comments 214 points
  14. Wikipedia as a Graph wikigrapher.com - 46 comments 179 points
  15. Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators www.governing.com - 99 comments 173 points
  16. AI’s coding evolution hinges on collaboration and trust spectrum.ieee.org - 139 comments 162 points
  17. SQLite’s documentation about its durability properties is unclear www.agwa.name - 49 comments 127 points
  18. Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters www.bbc.com - 169 comments 122 points
  19. Offline-First Landscape – 2025 marcoapp.io - 65 comments 108 points
  20. Seedbox Lite: A lightweight torrent streaming app with instant playback github.com - 59 comments 104 points
  21. Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Markdown sosumi.ai - 61 comments 103 points
  22. Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN pj4533.com - 18 comments 101 points
  23. Pentagon Docs: US Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda theintercept.com - 43 comments 91 points
  24. God created the real numbers www.ethanheilman.com - 131 comments 90 points
  25. Why Romania excels in international Olympiads www.palladiummag.com - 75 comments 88 points
  26. The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval arxiv.org - 13 comments 86 points
  27. The No-CPU Amiga Demo Challenge github.com - 28 comments 85 points
  28. MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data whistleblower.org - 16 comments 84 points
  29. How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs? data.iana.org - 134 comments 83 points
  30. Data engineering and software engineering are converging clickhouse.com - 58 comments 82 points