Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-02

  1. Jane Goodall has died www.latimes.com - 147 comments 1090 points
  2. Show HN: Autism Simulator autism-simulator.vercel.app - 618 comments 555 points
  3. Don’t avoid workplace politics terriblesoftware.org - 204 comments 375 points
  4. I only use Google Sheets mayberay.bearblog.dev - 322 comments 327 points
  5. Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining si.inc - 224 comments 295 points
  6. TigerBeetle is a most interesting database www.amplifypartners.com - 206 comments 289 points
  7. Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing www.alephic.com - 148 comments 281 points
  8. Our efforts, in part, define us weakty.com - 187 comments 269 points
  9. Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54% electrek.co - 225 comments 263 points
  10. OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series www.opentslm.com - 70 comments 225 points
  11. Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP support.google.com - 119 comments 222 points
  12. U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor www.wsj.com - 182 comments 206 points
  13. Codeberg Reaches 300k Projects codeberg.org - 75 comments 198 points
  14. Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations abuseofnotation.github.io - 74 comments 188 points
  15. Type Theory and Functional Programming - 1999 - pdf www.cs.cornell.edu - 70 comments 187 points
  16. Ask HN: Who is hiring? - October 2025 news.ycombinator.com - 242 comments 173 points
  17. Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn’t been updated to fix the system wide lag gist.github.com - 105 comments 158 points
  18. Cormac McCarthy’s personal library www.smithsonianmag.com - 47 comments 154 points
  19. DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025 www.perl.com - 33 comments 147 points
  20. Cursor 1.7 cursor.com - 151 comments 143 points
  21. The Company Man www.lesswrong.com - 56 comments 140 points
  22. Minimal files and config for a PWA github.com - 22 comments 135 points
  23. ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Phones, Without Warrants olgalautman.substack.com - 82 comments 134 points
  24. Evaluating the impact of AI on the labor market: Current state of affairs budgetlab.yale.edu - 150 comments 133 points
  25. High-resolution efficient image generation from WiFi Mapping arxiv.org - 34 comments 131 points
  26. Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work www.theregister.com - 74 comments 125 points
  27. Announcing Tinker thinkingmachines.ai - 69 comments 125 points
  28. DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust - 2024 www.darpa.mil - 148 comments 116 points
  29. Show HN: ChartDB Agent – Cursor for DB schema design app.chartdb.io - 35 comments 113 points
  30. Edge264 – Minimalist, high-performance software decoder for H.264/AVC video github.com - 21 comments 107 points