Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-01

  1. Advent of Code 2025 adventofcode.com - 276 comments 827 points
  2. Writing a good Claude.md www.humanlayer.dev - 138 comments 434 points
  3. Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z www.ryanliptak.com - 210 comments 411 points
  4. Don’t push AI down our throats gpt3experiments.substack.com - 289 comments 383 points
  5. Migrating Dillo from GitHub dillo-browser.org - 175 comments 319 points
  6. Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella www.cnbc.com - 158 comments 313 points
  7. CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution cachyos.org - 245 comments 277 points
  8. Modern cars are spying on you. Here’s what you can do about it apnews.com - 280 comments 268 points
  9. “Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran twitter.com - 86 comments 268 points
  10. A Love Letter to FreeBSD www.tara.sh - 151 comments 254 points
  11. GitHub to Codeberg: my experience eldred.fr - 77 comments 215 points
  12. Algorithms for Optimization - pdf algorithmsbook.com - 16 comments 197 points
  13. NixOS 25.11 released nixos.org - 55 comments 182 points
  14. The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary thinkinggamefilm.com - 114 comments 173 points
  15. People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows www.zdnet.com - 151 comments 157 points
  16. ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025 safari.ethz.ch - 17 comments 137 points
  17. Is America’s jobs market nearing a cliff? www.economist.com - 237 comments 136 points
  18. Advent of Sysadmin 2025 sadservers.com - 36 comments 134 points
  19. Silicon Valley’s man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends www.nytimes.com - 89 comments 124 points
  20. LLVM-MOS – Clang LLVM fork targeting the 6502 llvm-mos.org - 50 comments 124 points
  21. Don’t throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy www.howtogeek.com - 131 comments 120 points
  22. Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT’s public release tegabrain.com - 36 comments 114 points
  23. The Undermining of the CDC www.newyorker.com - 168 comments 107 points
  24. You want microservices, but do you need them? www.docker.com - 108 comments 102 points
  25. Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% - 2022 arxiv.org - 26 comments 99 points
  26. Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries jaysbrickblog.com - 43 comments 97 points
  27. Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia www.404media.co - 94 comments 93 points
  28. ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images www.esa.int - 29 comments 93 points
  29. ‘A full-blown crisis’: Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs www.ft.com - 125 comments 81 points
  30. The space of minds karpathy.bearblog.dev - 50 comments 78 points