Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-11-08

  1. Leaving Meta and PyTorch soumith.ch - 165 comments 680 points
  2. Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams sherwood.news - 482 comments 654 points
  3. YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims ‘Risk of Physical Harm’ news.itsfoss.com - 187 comments 523 points
  4. Rockstar employee shares account of the company’s union-busting efforts gtaforums.com - 314 comments 471 points
  5. Denmark’s government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 apnews.com - 321 comments 442 points
  6. Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time coffee.link - 173 comments 438 points
  7. Why I love OCaml - 2023 mccd.space - 213 comments 314 points
  8. VLC’s Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025 fsfe.org - 48 comments 287 points
  9. Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line kensegall.com - 251 comments 282 points
  10. James Watson has died www.nytimes.com - 155 comments 281 points
  11. OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation openmw.org - 92 comments 275 points
  12. Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site prison.josh.mn - 176 comments 258 points
  13. Why is Zig so cool? nilostolte.github.io - 131 comments 249 points
  14. Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages github.com - 92 comments 238 points
  15. AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service christianheilmann.com - 179 comments 230 points
  16. Gmail AI gets more intrusive daveverse.org - 140 comments 224 points
  17. Ruby Solved My Problem newsletter.masilotti.com - 78 comments 208 points
  18. A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’ www.nytimes.com - 174 comments 205 points
  19. How did I get here? how-did-i-get-here.net - 34 comments 192 points
  20. Becoming a Compiler Engineer rona.substack.com - 71 comments 178 points
  21. Snapchat open-sources Valdi a cross-platform UI framework github.com - 40 comments 178 points
  22. Sam Altman’s pants are on fire garymarcus.substack.com - 75 comments 157 points
  23. We chose OCaml to write Stategraph stategraph.dev - 109 comments 151 points
  24. FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to overnight hours www.space.com - 62 comments 127 points
  25. Angel Investors, a Field Guide www.jeanyang.com - 27 comments 126 points
  26. Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week phys.org - 43 comments 101 points
  27. Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta mullvad.net - 44 comments 96 points
  28. Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines? codemanship.wordpress.com - 167 comments 95 points
  29. Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself edition.cnn.com - 108 comments 77 points
  30. I’m making a small RPG and I need feeback regarding performance jslegenddev.substack.com - 64 comments 76 points