Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-09-21

  1. Ultrasonic Chef’s Knife seattleultrasonics.com - 409 comments 516 points
  2. Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately timesofindia.indiatimes.com - 587 comments 380 points
  3. Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system lore.kernel.org - 292 comments 309 points
  4. $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer www.cnx-software.com - 107 comments 238 points
  5. FLX1s phone is launched furilabs.com - 146 comments 217 points
  6. Are touchscreens in cars dangerous? www.economist.com - 197 comments 208 points
  7. Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a science paper - 2019 - pdf gwern.net - 81 comments 204 points
  8. Designing NotebookLM jasonspielman.com - 68 comments 204 points
  9. Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact www.theregister.com - 129 comments 196 points
  10. Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers www.modernretail.co - 69 comments 195 points
  11. Images over DNS dgl.cx - 45 comments 170 points
  12. IG Nobel Prize Winners 2025 improbable.com - 45 comments 152 points
  13. PYREX vs. pyrex: What’s the difference? www.corning.com - 101 comments 131 points
  14. Is Zig’s new writer unsafe? www.openmymind.net - 135 comments 130 points
  15. The LLM Lobotomy? learn.microsoft.com - 55 comments 124 points
  16. Microsoft memo advises H1B employees to return immediately if currently abroad x.com - 165 comments 120 points
  17. Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool spectrum.ieee.org - 231 comments 106 points
  18. Systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons utcc.utoronto.ca - 114 comments 105 points
  19. China’s 200M gig workers are a warning for the world www.economist.com - 197 comments 94 points
  20. Invasive Israeli-founded bloatware is harvesting data from Samsung users in WANA smex.org - 26 comments 88 points
  21. For comedians around the world, the laughs often end as democracy fades www.theguardian.com - 68 comments 86 points
  22. Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy storage www.cell.com - 39 comments 85 points
  23. Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man www.theguardian.com - 18 comments 83 points
  24. Why do some gamers invert their controls? www.theguardian.com - 124 comments 82 points
  25. Philips announces digital pathology scanner with native DICOM JPEG XL output www.philips.com - 41 comments 80 points
  26. The dawn of the post-literate society – and the end of civilisation jmarriott.substack.com - 118 comments 79 points
  27. Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners focusstream.media - 40 comments 75 points
  28. New H-1B visa fee will not apply to existing holders, official says www.axios.com - 72 comments 68 points
  29. Tariffs make it harder to justify US investments, automakers and suppliers warn www.autonews.com - 17 comments 68 points
  30. TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV quarters.captaintouch.com - 39 comments 66 points