Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-06

  1. Fire destroys S. Korean government’s cloud storage system, no backups available koreajoongangdaily.joins.com - 579 comments 1310 points
  2. Social Cooling - 2017 www.socialcooling.com - 221 comments 398 points
  3. Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come blog.muni.town - 248 comments 368 points
  4. The deadline isn’t when AI outsmarts us – it’s when we stop using our own minds www.theargumentmag.com - 278 comments 325 points
  5. Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? www.theguardian.com - 289 comments 287 points
  6. Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify bhargav.dev - 134 comments 274 points
  7. Retiring Test-Ipv6.com retire.test-ipv6.com - 162 comments 256 points
  8. NIST’s DeepSeek “evaluation” is a hit piece erichartford.com - 142 comments 246 points
  9. What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI’s training data fi-le.net - 50 comments 219 points
  10. The QNX Operating System www.abortretry.fail - 65 comments 210 points
  11. Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks jamesoclaire.com - 96 comments 207 points
  12. Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels grist.org - 224 comments 183 points
  13. BYD builds fastest car www.autotrader.co.uk - 148 comments 181 points
  14. Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji? vgel.me - 74 comments 181 points
  15. Activision-Blizzard buyout is ‘harming both gamers and developers’ – Lina Khan www.pcgamer.com - 100 comments 163 points
  16. Benefits of choosing email over messaging www.spinellis.gr - 136 comments 158 points
  17. If the University of Chicago won’t defend the humanities, who will? www.theatlantic.com - 154 comments 155 points
  18. Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT github.com - 39 comments 137 points
  19. The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics hackaday.com - 66 comments 131 points
  20. Show HN: Pyscn – Python code quality analyzer for vibe coders github.com - 72 comments 121 points
  21. 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived blog.archive.org - 13 comments 121 points
  22. NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System nfs40.online - 89 comments 118 points
  23. Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power zakelfassi.com - 66 comments 110 points
  24. 86 GB/s bitpacking with ARM SIMD - single thread github.com - 24 comments 105 points
  25. Ken Parker, famed luthier, has died kenparkerarchtops.com - 26 comments 90 points
  26. Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board www.delopsu.com - 33 comments 89 points
  27. Focus Is Saying No medium.com - 44 comments 87 points
  28. I do not want to be a programmer anymore mindthenerd.com - 116 comments 77 points
  29. Ask HN: Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech? news.ycombinator.com - 47 comments 69 points
  30. Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line github.com - 25 comments 67 points