Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-08-31

  1. Cognitive load is what matters github.com - 390 comments 979 points
  2. Are we decentralized yet? arewedecentralizedyet.online - 188 comments 380 points
  3. Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font www.osnews.com - 97 comments 293 points
  4. Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything www.wsj.com - 337 comments 277 points
  5. FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned ’nearly every American’ www.theregister.com - 156 comments 265 points
  6. Agent Client Protocol - ACP agentclientprotocol.com - 76 comments 237 points
  7. You Have to Feel It mitchellh.com - 79 comments 227 points
  8. AI models need a virtual machine blog.sigplan.org - 101 comments 194 points
  9. Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy andrewmarder.net - 84 comments 172 points
  10. From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms vinithavn.medium.com - 38 comments 166 points
  11. Bcachefs Goes to “Externally Maintained” lwn.net - 154 comments 137 points
  12. Condor’s Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025 chipsandcheese.com - 39 comments 134 points
  13. The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust yekdeveloper.com - 94 comments 119 points
  14. The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping ifstudies.org - 214 comments 115 points
  15. De minimis exemption ends www.washingtonpost.com - 146 comments 104 points
  16. A blog does not need “analytics” www.thisdaysportion.com - 106 comments 103 points
  17. Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine krebsonsecurity.com - 26 comments 98 points
  18. LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords landchad.net - 19 comments 97 points
  19. Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired news.ycombinator.com - 121 comments 94 points
  20. University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test planning.e-psychometrics.com - 153 comments 87 points
  21. Meta and Yandex Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android localmess.github.io - 14 comments 87 points
  22. New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely lafollette.wisc.edu - 127 comments 83 points
  23. Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history sydneyreviewofbooks.com - 23 comments 83 points
  24. New Huawei 96GB GPU e.huawei.com - 74 comments 80 points
  25. ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies www.signalbloom.ai - 72 comments 77 points
  26. Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale www.livescience.com - 53 comments 76 points
  27. The Default Trap: Why Anthropic’s Data Policy Change Matters natesnewsletter.substack.com - 15 comments 70 points
  28. F-Stack – A network development kit with high performance based on DPDK www.f-stack.org - 27 comments 65 points
  29. Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe? shkspr.mobi - 158 comments 62 points
  30. Scottish brothers finish mammoth row across Pacific Ocean after 139 days www.abc.net.au - 20 comments 61 points