Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-21

  1. AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 health.aws.amazon.com - 1852 comments 1818 points
  2. Major AWS Outage Happening old.reddit.com - 10 comments 1072 points
  3. DeepSeek OCR github.com - 224 comments 898 points
  4. Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout www.theregister.com - 235 comments 518 points
  5. Servo v0.0.1 github.com - 159 comments 503 points
  6. Claude Code on the web www.anthropic.com - 270 comments 436 points
  7. Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down status.postman.com - 184 comments 398 points
  8. Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system www.tomshardware.com - 252 comments 393 points
  9. BERT is just a single text diffusion step nathan.rs - 93 comments 377 points
  10. Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents blog.abdellatif.io - 86 comments 355 points
  11. Tell HN: AWS us-east-1 services are down news.ycombinator.com - 1 comments 340 points
  12. Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption www.dockerstatus.com - 129 comments 333 points
  13. Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died old.reddit.com - 74 comments 321 points
  14. AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn’t Take Down the World. But It Did faun.dev - 13 comments 297 points
  15. Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States intelnews.org - 172 comments 263 points
  16. AWS outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say www.theguardian.com - 180 comments 245 points
  17. J.P. Morgan’s OpenAI loan is strange marketunpack.com - 144 comments 220 points
  18. Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more www.theverge.com - 1 comments 209 points
  19. AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies www.theguardian.com - 198 comments 169 points
  20. iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency www.macrumors.com - 167 comments 168 points
  21. Show HN: Playwright Skill for Claude Code – Less context than playwright-MCP github.com - 41 comments 148 points
  22. How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services www.wheresyoured.at - 139 comments 147 points
  23. Bat v0.26.0 github.com - 69 comments 142 points
  24. Commodore 64 Ultimate www.commodore.net - 76 comments 136 points
  25. When a stadium adds AI to everything, it’s worse experience for everyone a.wholelottanothing.org - 66 comments 133 points
  26. x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger x64.halb.it - 11 comments 133 points
  27. Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights element.io - 104 comments 126 points
  28. Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals leandronsp.com - 51 comments 125 points
  29. Peanut allergies have plummeted in children www.nytimes.com - 112 comments 124 points
  30. Beaver-engineered dam in the Czech Republic en.wikipedia.org - 57 comments 115 points