Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-11-24

  1. After my dad died, we found the love letters www.jenn.site - 392 comments 863 points
  2. Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays emilysneddon.com - 103 comments 785 points
  3. X’s new country-of-origin feature reveals many ‘US’ accounts to be foreign-run www.hindustantimes.com - 199 comments 392 points
  4. Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates www.makingsoftware.com - 81 comments 373 points
  5. Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public time.com - 149 comments 365 points
  6. Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS gist.github.com - 150 comments 360 points
  7. Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air www.nytimes.com - 362 comments 313 points
  8. Racket v9.0 blog.racket-lang.org - 103 comments 304 points
  9. Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists - pdf mathcs.holycross.edu - 60 comments 280 points
  10. 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18 blog.zorin.com - 210 comments 233 points
  11. Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft? birchtree.me - 194 comments 232 points
  12. 73% of AI startups are just prompt engineering pub.towardsai.net - 188 comments 225 points
  13. “Good engineering management” is a fad lethain.com - 84 comments 190 points
  14. Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal windowsreport.com - 81 comments 182 points
  15. Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again notesfrombelow.org - 114 comments 155 points
  16. µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D microcad.xyz - 39 comments 140 points
  17. Editing Code in Emacs redpenguin101.github.io - 36 comments 138 points
  18. Several core problems with Rust bykozy.me - 176 comments 122 points
  19. Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd github.com - 47 comments 122 points
  20. We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs lalitm.com - 82 comments 118 points
  21. Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what’s hot? news.ycombinator.com - 43 comments 114 points
  22. Signal knows who you’re talking to - 2023 sanesecurityguy.com - 144 comments 112 points
  23. Apple to focus on ‘quality and underlying performance’ with iOS 27 next year 9to5mac.com - 93 comments 110 points
  24. Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering? news.ycombinator.com - 22 comments 109 points
  25. Dark Mode Sucks www.tomechangosubanana.com - 150 comments 106 points
  26. Doge ‘doesn’t exist’ with eight months left on its charter www.reuters.com - 100 comments 102 points
  27. RuBee computer.rip - 7 comments 96 points
  28. The Cloudflare outage was a good thing gist.github.com - 48 comments 81 points
  29. SVG.js v3.2 svgjs.dev - 12 comments 78 points
  30. Show HN: I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C github.com - 19 comments 75 points