Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-26

  1. Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation www.synadia.com - 4 comments 394 points
  2. React vs. Backbone in 2025 backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com - 200 comments 276 points
  3. A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool www.nrc.gov - 166 comments 274 points
  4. I’m drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it www.makeuseof.com - 162 comments 260 points
  5. California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind www.latimes.com - 176 comments 238 points
  6. We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable libera.chat - 70 comments 222 points
  7. **The Journey Before main- ** amit.prasad.me - 69 comments 195 points
  8. Rock Tumbler Instructions rocktumbler.com - 82 comments 169 points
  9. Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won’t refund API credits news.ycombinator.com - 91 comments 168 points
  10. Making a micro Linux distro - 2023 popovicu.com - 28 comments 166 points
  11. The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel www.0xkato.xyz - 43 comments 162 points
  12. Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations github.com - 36 comments 157 points
  13. Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts www.itnews.com.au - 86 comments 146 points
  14. Pico-Banana-400k github.com - 16 comments 136 points
  15. Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales www.macrumors.com - 172 comments 128 points
  16. An Update on TinyKVM fwsgonzo.medium.com - 22 comments 96 points
  17. Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes shadcnthemer.com - 31 comments 94 points
  18. TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation tigerbeetle.com - 168 comments 88 points
  19. D2: Diagram Scripting Language d2lang.com - 16 comments 87 points
  20. How programs get run: ELF binaries - 2015 lwn.net - 3 comments 84 points
  21. That Time Ken Thompson Wrote a Backdoor into the C Compiler micahkepe.com - 13 comments 79 points
  22. ICC Judge Guillou loses all US IT accounts after MAGA sanctions - FR www.franceinfo.fr - 70 comments 78 points
  23. AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages www.technologyreview.com - 35 comments 77 points
  24. The Great SaaS Gaslight unworkableideas.com - 100 comments 74 points
  25. The Missing Semester of Your CS Education - 2020 missing.csail.mit.edu - 30 comments 74 points
  26. Against SQL - 2021 www.scattered-thoughts.net - 60 comments 73 points
  27. The mad king’s digital killswitch pluralistic.net - 22 comments 69 points
  28. In memory of the Christmas Island shrew news.mongabay.com - 21 comments 68 points
  29. Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL - no code changes needed github.com - 9 comments 66 points
  30. DNA reveals the real killers that brought down Napoleon’s army www.gavi.org - 4 comments 65 points