Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-13

  1. Epic celebrates “the end of the Apple Tax” after court win in iOS payments case arstechnica.com - 288 comments 389 points
  2. macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt developer.apple.com - 192 comments 344 points
  3. SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns www.dbpro.app - 103 comments 337 points
  4. The Tor Project is switching to Rust itsfoss.com - 239 comments 325 points
  5. Koralm Railway infrastruktur.oebb.at - 173 comments 293 points
  6. Id Software devs form “wall-to-wall” union www.rockpapershotgun.com - 312 comments 288 points
  7. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI simonwillison.net - 159 comments 265 points
  8. The tiniest yet real telescope I’ve built lucassifoni.info - 66 comments 253 points
  9. Rats Play DOOM ratsplaydoom.com - 90 comments 242 points
  10. Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems techcrunch.com - 132 comments 225 points
  11. Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com - 226 comments 211 points
  12. Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops www.phoronix.com - 185 comments 207 points
  13. Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source www.omgubuntu.co.uk - 97 comments 202 points
  14. GNU Unifont unifoundry.com - 53 comments 183 points
  15. CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can’t buy www.jeffgeerling.com - 47 comments 179 points
  16. Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now - video www.youtube.com - 151 comments 160 points
  17. Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers vulpinecitrus.info - 111 comments 157 points
  18. Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect www3.nhk.or.jp - 29 comments 149 points
  19. Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers reclaimthenet.org - 99 comments 147 points
  20. Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast www.digitaldigging.org - 120 comments 144 points
  21. Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help hey.paris - 39 comments 134 points
  22. String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof www.quantamagazine.org - 132 comments 130 points
  23. Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It’s paying the price finance.yahoo.com - 114 comments 128 points
  24. The true story of the Windows 3.1 ‘Hot Dog Stand’ color scheme www.pcgamer.com - 46 comments 128 points
  25. Using secondary school maths to demystify AI www.raspberrypi.org - 218 comments 111 points
  26. Async DNS flak.tedunangst.com - 38 comments 111 points
  27. Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation fedorarepository.org - 50 comments 109 points
  28. Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC www.eesc.europa.eu - 146 comments 108 points
  29. Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig github.com - 5 comments 106 points
  30. Smartphone without a battery - 2022 yaky.dev - 32 comments 86 points