Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-04

  1. Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft’s AI obsession has ruined the service www.theregister.com - 570 comments 979 points
  2. Ghostty is now non-profit mitchellh.com - 197 comments 963 points
  3. Accepting US car standards would risk European lives etsc.eu - 701 comments 824 points
  4. “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill www.nber.org - 523 comments 791 points
  5. Everyone in Seattle hates AI jonready.com - 716 comments 719 points
  6. Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files alexschapiro.com - 191 comments 596 points
  7. Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business investors.micron.com - 234 comments 478 points
  8. RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js github.com - 156 comments 464 points
  9. MinIO is now in maintenance-mode github.com - 268 comments 445 points
  10. 1D Conway’s Life glider found, 3.7B cells long conwaylife.com - 137 comments 399 points
  11. Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB www.tomshardware.com - 261 comments 393 points
  12. The “Mad Men” in 4K on HBO Max Debacle fxrant.blogspot.com - 159 comments 373 points
  13. Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public www.ft.com - 255 comments 326 points
  14. Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games frvr.com - 13 comments 293 points
  15. You can’t fool the optimizer xania.org - 149 comments 246 points
  16. Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions finfam.app - 72 comments 217 points
  17. Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? martinalderson.com - 164 comments 202 points
  18. India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones www.bbc.com - 54 comments 195 points
  19. Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months pcpartpicker.com - 105 comments 184 points
  20. Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game? alexene.dev - 120 comments 168 points
  21. Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows healthisotherpeople.substack.com - 147 comments 165 points
  22. Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust sinelaw.github.io - 87 comments 141 points
  23. Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js www.wiz.io - 73 comments 131 points
  24. Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics www.quantamagazine.org - 43 comments 114 points
  25. Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets finance.yahoo.com - 86 comments 109 points
  26. GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles yunfan.zone - 23 comments 108 points
  27. AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society eyeofthesquid.com - 172 comments 106 points
  28. Launch HN: Phind 3 - YC S22 – Every answer is a mini-app news.ycombinator.com - 77 comments 97 points
  29. VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record www.washingtonpost.com - 37 comments 96 points
  30. Researchers Find Microbe Capable of Producing Oxygen from Martian Soil scienceclock.com - 37 comments 96 points