Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-17
- TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free - 2019 www.propublica.org - 432 comments 818 points
- How I bypassed Amazon’s Kindle web DRM blog.pixelmelt.dev - 249 comments 800 points
- Claude Skills www.anthropic.com - 315 comments 567 points
- Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules apnews.com - 424 comments 449 points
- Liquibase continues to advertise itself as “open source” despite license switch github.com - 295 comments 332 points
- Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing ricklamers.io - 197 comments 328 points
- Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features blog.torproject.org - 209 comments 325 points
- Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development lwn.net - 213 comments 318 points
- Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA www.eurogamer.net - 277 comments 313 points
- Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework hyperflask.dev - 101 comments 311 points
- Elixir 1.19 elixir-lang.org - 61 comments 257 points
- Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js akarshc.com - 214 comments 252 points
- DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix about.doordash.com - 538 comments 245 points
- Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin www.usmint.gov - 269 comments 237 points
- Codex Is Live in Zed zed.dev - 31 comments 212 points
- New coding models and integrations ollama.com - 65 comments 208 points
- A conspiracy to kill IE6 - 2019 blog.chriszacharias.com - 110 comments 184 points
- Cloudflare Sandbox SDK sandbox.cloudflare.com - 53 comments 173 points
- Mysterious Intrigue Around an x86 “Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD” www.phoronix.com - 84 comments 159 points
- Electricity can heal wounds three times as fast - 2023 www.chalmers.se - 91 comments 155 points
- Talent www.felixstocker.com - 65 comments 144 points
- test-ipv6.com will stay online status.test-ipv6.com - 32 comments 142 points
- America’s semiconductor boom www.youtube.com - 72 comments 130 points
- Hacker News – The Good Parts smartmic.bearblog.dev - 155 comments 129 points
- Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter www.novaspivack.com - 50 comments 126 points
- How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods www.nytimes.com - 301 comments 113 points
- A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps 100x.bot - 54 comments 113 points
- Benjie’s Humanoid Olympic Games generalrobots.substack.com - 81 comments 110 points
- Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital journal.media-culture.org.au - 141 comments 104 points
- European.cloud: A Curated Directory of EU-Based Cloud Providers european.cloud - 75 comments 101 points
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