Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-05
- It’s time to free JavaScript - 2024 javascript.tm - 342 comments 683 points
- Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they’re disabled? reason.com - 813 comments 583 points
- PGlite – Embeddable Postgres pglite.dev - 105 comments 538 points
- How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs arxiv.org - 519 comments 533 points
- I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer lalitm.com - 211 comments 452 points
- Unreal Tournament 2004 is back old.reddit.com - 190 comments 433 points
- Transparent leadership beats servant leadership entropicthoughts.com - 190 comments 400 points
- Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas arstechnica.com - 296 comments 391 points
- RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung www.pcworld.com - 356 comments 374 points
- Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s uncloud.run - 156 comments 374 points
- The RAM shortage comes for us all www.jeffgeerling.com - 364 comments 340 points
- AV1 powers approximately 30% of Netflix viewing netflixtechblog.com - 137 comments 302 points
- Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig sinclairtarget.com - 328 comments 293 points
- Django 6 docs.djangoproject.com - 133 comments 290 points
- Multivox: Volumetric Display github.com - 35 comments 258 points
- A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat www.bbc.com - 189 comments 231 points
- Autism should not be treated as a single condition www.economist.com - 278 comments 228 points
- We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months www.aitradearena.com - 183 comments 224 points
- Programming peaked functional.computer - 202 comments 203 points
- Fighting the age-gated internet www.wired.com - 181 comments 199 points
- 30 years ago today “Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript” web.archive.org - 93 comments 199 points
- Tunnl.gg tunnl.gg - 92 comments 194 points
- State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter openrouter.ai - 62 comments 165 points
- Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years www.topspeed.com - 142 comments 161 points
- BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive evclinic.eu - 114 comments 156 points
- Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later onlyrecipeapp.com - 126 comments 150 points
- The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X fsfe.org - 158 comments 149 points
- Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame github.com - 65 comments 148 points
- Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available www.proxmox.com - 38 comments 124 points
- Human hair grows through ‘pulling’ not pushing, study shows phys.org - 59 comments 122 points
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