Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-10-31

  1. Affinity Studio now free www.affinity.studio - 618 comments 925 points
  2. Free software scares normal people danieldelaney.net - 364 comments 586 points
  3. How the cochlea computes - 2024 www.dissonances.blog - 130 comments 403 points
  4. US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty therecord.media - 208 comments 336 points
  5. Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy therecord.media - 82 comments 273 points
  6. Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD- x/EFI Files github.com - 113 comments 261 points
  7. A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down shaun.nz - 174 comments 258 points
  8. Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US arstechnica.com - 237 comments 234 points
  9. Language models are injective and hence invertible arxiv.org - 143 comments 213 points
  10. Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest roberdam.com - 367 comments 202 points
  11. Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews 0github.com - 56 comments 198 points
  12. PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases planetscale.com - 104 comments 190 points
  13. Ground stop at JFK due to staffing www.fly.faa.gov - 193 comments 162 points
  14. I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86 twitter.com - 80 comments 162 points
  15. Some people can’t see mental images www.newyorker.com - 310 comments 147 points
  16. Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works www.acma.gov.au - 61 comments 143 points
  17. ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon www.newyorker.com - 62 comments 138 points
  18. Jujutsu at Google - video www.youtube.com - 141 comments 137 points
  19. The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology www.heise.de - 120 comments 135 points
  20. Minecraft HDL, an HDL for Redstone github.com - 17 comments 135 points
  21. Qt Creator 18 Released www.qt.io - 20 comments 134 points
  22. Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34% www.cnbc.com - 170 comments 129 points
  23. You can’t turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint support.microsoft.com - 34 comments 113 points
  24. Taking money off the table zachholman.com - 103 comments 107 points
  25. Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture github.com - 3 comments 106 points
  26. Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years www.bbc.com - 124 comments 99 points
  27. Affinity by Canva www.affinity.studio - 5 comments 99 points
  28. Launch HN: Propolis - YC X25 – Browser agents that QA your web app autonomously app.propolis.tech - 27 comments 93 points
  29. TruthWave – A platform for corporate whistleblowers www.truthwave.com - 40 comments 88 points
  30. Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter www.theregister.com - 28 comments 88 points