Hacker News top 30 - 2025-09-29
- Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying privacybadger.org - 257 comments 659 points
- The AI coding trap chrisloy.dev - 338 comments 533 points
- Play snake in the URL address bar demian.ferrei.ro - 59 comments 467 points
- When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order” sebastiano.tronto.net - 259 comments 435 points
- F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree f-droid.org - 60 comments 268 points
- UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards petition.parliament.uk - 222 comments 256 points
- Bayesian Data Analysis, Third edition - 2013 - pdf sites.stat.columbia.edu - 51 comments 243 points
- Why I gave the world wide web away for free www.theguardian.com - 124 comments 237 points
- Farewell friends humbledollar.com - 45 comments 221 points
- EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies www.washingtonpost.com - 180 comments 207 points
- Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads toolbrew.co - 48 comments 199 points
- The Demon-Haunted World en.wikipedia.org - 83 comments 163 points
- Autism may be the price of human intelligence, linked to human brain evolution academic.oup.com - 97 comments 149 points
- Scm2wasm: A Scheme to WASM compiler in 600 lines of C, making use of WASM GC git.lain.faith - 15 comments 149 points
- China is run by engineers. America is run by lawyers freakonomics.com - 244 comments 148 points
- Why I’m not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco justin.searls.co - 101 comments 147 points
- The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming sanixdk.xyz - 75 comments 139 points
- Linus Learns Analog Circuits github.com - 37 comments 129 points
- Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust: Taskflow, Rayon, Fork Union ashvardanian.com - 28 comments 122 points
- Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again www.julian.ac - 192 comments 118 points
- What’s New in PostgreSQL 18 – a Developer’s Perspective www.bytebase.com - 26 comments 109 points
- Dismissed as a joke, UK’s first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer www.bbc.co.uk - 102 comments 108 points
- Larry Ellison on AI-powered surveillance - video - 2024 streamable.com - 56 comments 107 points
- She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook - 2021 www.vice.com - 99 comments 106 points
- Testing “Exotic” P2P VPN blog.nommy.moe - 24 comments 105 points
- Go ahead, write the “stupid” code spikepuppet.io - 57 comments 101 points
- VMScape and why Xen dodged it virtualize.sh - 21 comments 95 points
- Fred Dibnah shows how to erect a chimney scaffold at 200 feet - 1982 - video www.youtube.com - 35 comments 94 points
- Ask HN: How Do I Get over My Existential Crisis? news.ycombinator.com - 69 comments 80 points
- Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme www.sec.gov - 25 comments 77 points
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