Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-25

  1. Typst 0.14 typst.app - 149 comments 566 points
  2. The Swift SDK for Android www.swift.org - 170 comments 447 points
  3. Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive github.com - 180 comments 315 points
  4. First shape found that can’t pass through itself www.quantamagazine.org - 70 comments 313 points
  5. Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust www.phoronix.com - 301 comments 287 points
  6. Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players www.bbc.com - 259 comments 260 points
  7. FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: “Your name was brought up.” www.kenklippenstein.com - 108 comments 255 points
  8. A sharded DuckDB on 63 nodes runs 1T row aggregation challenge in 5 sec gizmodata.com - 127 comments 208 points
  9. Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models mesh2motion.org - 34 comments 192 points
  10. Disable AI in Firefox flamedfury.com - 135 comments 188 points
  11. Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change lwn.net - 178 comments 176 points
  12. Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways www.saxrag.com - 20 comments 150 points
  13. Alaska Airlines’ statement on IT outage news.alaskaair.com - 136 comments 132 points
  14. Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole www.centauri-dreams.org - 97 comments 132 points
  15. Code Like a Surgeon www.geoffreylitt.com - 85 comments 131 points
  16. Study: MRI contrast agent causes harmful metal buildup in some patients www.ormanager.com - 91 comments 125 points
  17. Harnessing America’s Heat Pump Moment www.heatpumped.org - 249 comments 118 points
  18. How to make a Smith chart www.johndcook.com - 21 comments 118 points
  19. New OSM file format: 30% smaller than PBF, 5x faster to import community.openstreetmap.org - 9 comments 103 points
  20. TextEdit and the relief of simple software www.newyorker.com - 89 comments 87 points
  21. ChunkLLM: A Lightweight Pluggable Framework for Accelerating LLMs Inference arxiv.org - 6 comments 87 points
  22. Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance www.tomsguide.com - 66 comments 86 points
  23. Vibe Coding in the 90s ssg.dev - 31 comments 81 points
  24. Carmack on Operating Systems - 1997 rmitz.org - 49 comments 73 points
  25. Show HN: I built an 8-bit CPU simulator in Python from scratch github.com - 19 comments 70 points
  26. “ChatGPT said this” Is Lazy terriblesoftware.org - 80 comments 63 points
  27. Britain’s most tattooed man says UK’s age check told him to “remove his face” www.dexerto.com - 51 comments 60 points
  28. The Coming Clash of Civilizations www.notesfromthecircus.com - 29 comments 54 points
  29. What Is Intelligence? - 2024 whatisintelligence.antikythera.org - 36 comments 52 points
  30. The Mainframe Six - 2022 arcanesciences.com - 17 comments 51 points