Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-12

  1. The Tag denodell.com - 168 comments 743 points
  2. Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year hardware.slashdot.org - 194 comments 539 points
  3. Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland www.bluewin.ch - 507 comments 513 points
  4. GNU Health www.gnuhealth.org - 105 comments 379 points
  5. Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025 blog.fsck.com - 171 comments 334 points
  6. Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme reason.com - 242 comments 296 points
  7. AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025 videocardz.com - 201 comments 262 points
  8. People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads arstechnica.com - 142 comments 259 points
  9. Firefox is the best mobile browser kelvinjps.com - 157 comments 255 points
  10. Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature mitchellh.com - 114 comments 245 points
  11. Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD github.com - 97 comments 240 points
  12. Microsoft Amplifier github.com - 129 comments 225 points
  13. Meta Superintelligence’s surprising first paper paddedinputs.substack.com - 107 comments 218 points
  14. Rating 26 years of Java changes neilmadden.blog - 200 comments 180 points
  15. Discord hack shows risks of online age checks news.sky.com - 49 comments 160 points
  16. LineageOS 23 lineageos.org - 48 comments 151 points
  17. China’s New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains www.csis.org - 116 comments 136 points
  18. Japan’s summers have lengthened by 3 weeks over 42 years, say resaerchers english.kyodonews.net - 27 comments 126 points
  19. Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere www.androidauthority.com - 33 comments 123 points
  20. Learn Turbo Pascal – a video series originally released on VHS www.youtube.com - 41 comments 120 points
  21. Datastar response to allegations data-star.dev - 87 comments 101 points
  22. Indonesia says 22 plants in industrial zone contaminated by caesium 137 www.reuters.com - 25 comments 101 points
  23. Hackers leak Qantas data on 5M customers after ransom deadline passes www.theguardian.com - 79 comments 97 points
  24. Diane Keaton has died www.nytimes.com - 11 comments 91 points
  25. ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical replacement for Windows/macOS elementary.io - 70 comments 89 points
  26. Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April www.cnbc.com - 134 comments 85 points
  27. How to check for overlapping intervals zayenz.se - 23 comments 82 points
  28. Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why? news.ycombinator.com - 188 comments 77 points
  29. Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS github.com - 27 comments 77 points
  30. Heroin addicts often seem normal justismills.substack.com - 72 comments 74 points