Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-16

  1. Apple M5 chip www.apple.com - 1132 comments 1057 points
  2. I almost got hacked by a ‘job interview’ blog.daviddodda.com - 439 comments 844 points
  3. Claude Haiku 4.5 www.anthropic.com - 210 comments 551 points
  4. Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent www.artnews.com - 442 comments 449 points
  5. Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement joindatacops.com - 273 comments 364 points
  6. Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft’s move towards a surveillance state www.scottrlarson.com - 222 comments 352 points
  7. Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture www.unkey.com - 202 comments 344 points
  8. M5 MacBook Pro www.apple.com - 466 comments 335 points
  9. Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client github.com - 85 comments 311 points
  10. Zed is now available on Windows zed.dev - 136 comments 307 points
  11. Pixnapping Attack www.pixnapping.com - 70 comments 294 points
  12. The cost of turning down wind turbines in Britain wastedwind.energy - 311 comments 277 points
  13. Pwning the Nix ecosystem ptrpa.ws - 50 comments 256 points
  14. IRS open sources its fact graph github.com - 64 comments 251 points
  15. Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip www.apple.com - 329 comments 245 points
  16. You are the scariest monster in the woods jamie.ideasasylum.com - 357 comments 214 points
  17. iPad Pro with M5 chip www.apple.com - 254 comments 203 points
  18. Getting syntax highlighting wrong tonsky.me - 119 comments 179 points
  19. Are hard drives getting better? www.backblaze.com - 74 comments 177 points
  20. Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering steipete.me - 107 comments 175 points
  21. Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable www.vincentuden.xyz - 133 comments 169 points
  22. F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code www.bleepingcomputer.com - 77 comments 164 points
  23. Mac Source Ports – Run old games on new Macs www.macsourceports.com - 63 comments 160 points
  24. A kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia’s GPU Linux drivers blog.quarkslab.com - 21 comments 155 points
  25. Next Steps for the Caddy Project Maintainership caddy.community - 80 comments 148 points
  26. Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system github.com - 52 comments 144 points
  27. YouTube seems to be down www.youtube.com - 67 comments 139 points
  28. Writing an LLM from scratch, part 22 – training our LLM www.gilesthomas.com - 2 comments 138 points
  29. US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low www.henleyglobal.com - 153 comments 130 points
  30. Things I’ve learned in my 7 years implementing AI www.jampa.dev - 47 comments 129 points