Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-05

  1. It’s time to free JavaScript - 2024 javascript.tm - 342 comments 683 points
  2. Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they’re disabled? reason.com - 813 comments 583 points
  3. PGlite – Embeddable Postgres pglite.dev - 105 comments 538 points
  4. How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs arxiv.org - 519 comments 533 points
  5. I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer lalitm.com - 211 comments 452 points
  6. Unreal Tournament 2004 is back old.reddit.com - 190 comments 433 points
  7. Transparent leadership beats servant leadership entropicthoughts.com - 190 comments 400 points
  8. Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas arstechnica.com - 296 comments 391 points
  9. RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung www.pcworld.com - 356 comments 374 points
  10. Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s uncloud.run - 156 comments 374 points
  11. The RAM shortage comes for us all www.jeffgeerling.com - 364 comments 340 points
  12. AV1 powers approximately 30% of Netflix viewing netflixtechblog.com - 137 comments 302 points
  13. Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig sinclairtarget.com - 328 comments 293 points
  14. Django 6 docs.djangoproject.com - 133 comments 290 points
  15. Multivox: Volumetric Display github.com - 35 comments 258 points
  16. A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat www.bbc.com - 189 comments 231 points
  17. Autism should not be treated as a single condition www.economist.com - 278 comments 228 points
  18. We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months www.aitradearena.com - 183 comments 224 points
  19. Programming peaked functional.computer - 202 comments 203 points
  20. Fighting the age-gated internet www.wired.com - 181 comments 199 points
  21. 30 years ago today “Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript” web.archive.org - 93 comments 199 points
  22. Tunnl.gg tunnl.gg - 92 comments 194 points
  23. State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter openrouter.ai - 62 comments 165 points
  24. Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years www.topspeed.com - 142 comments 161 points
  25. BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive evclinic.eu - 114 comments 156 points
  26. Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later onlyrecipeapp.com - 126 comments 150 points
  27. The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X fsfe.org - 158 comments 149 points
  28. Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame github.com - 65 comments 148 points
  29. Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available www.proxmox.com - 38 comments 124 points
  30. Human hair grows through ‘pulling’ not pushing, study shows phys.org - 59 comments 122 points