Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-11-12

  1. FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs thenewstack.io - 539 comments 737 points
  2. iPhone Pocket www.apple.com - 1167 comments 471 points
  3. Collaboration sucks newsletter.posthog.com - 200 comments 362 points
  4. SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia www.cnbc.com - 207 comments 324 points
  5. Firefox expands fingerprint protections blog.mozilla.org - 150 comments 284 points
  6. X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch www.spaceweatherlive.com - 75 comments 272 points
  7. iPod Socks en.wikipedia.org - 46 comments 230 points
  8. OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules www.reuters.com - 224 comments 211 points
  9. Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow www.bbc.com - 272 comments 209 points
  10. I didn’t reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours james.belchamber.com - 71 comments 180 points
  11. Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers pikaday.dbushell.com - 74 comments 176 points
  12. A modern 35mm film scanner for home www.soke.engineering - 126 comments 174 points
  13. Scaling HNSWs antirez.com - 35 comments 171 points
  14. The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed steveblank.com - 237 comments 164 points
  15. The terminal of the future jyn.dev - 83 comments 164 points
  16. I can build enterprise software but I can’t charge for it gist.github.com - 156 comments 155 points
  17. .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser avaloniaui.net - 118 comments 150 points
  18. Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work markusstrasser.org - 115 comments 139 points
  19. We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models latenitesoft.com - 80 comments 131 points
  20. Cache-friendly, low-memory Lanczos algorithm in Rust lukefleed.xyz - 19 comments 116 points
  21. Four strange places to see London’s Roman Wall diamondgeezer.blogspot.com - 29 comments 113 points
  22. Microplastics: No longer a “maybe” ibbi.io - 57 comments 107 points
  23. Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans academic.oup.com - 71 comments 106 points
  24. Blender 5.1 developer.blender.org - 11 comments 105 points
  25. Perkeep – Personal storage system for life perkeep.org - 26 comments 104 points
  26. AI adoption in US adds ~900k tons of CO₂ annually, study finds techxplore.com - 102 comments 102 points
  27. Zig / C++ Interop tuple.app - 14 comments 102 points
  28. Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform gametje.com - 38 comments 99 points
  29. Advent of Code on the Z-Machine entropicthoughts.com - 20 comments 98 points
  30. Terminal Latency on Windows - 2024 chadaustin.me - 74 comments 95 points