Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-14

  1. VPN location claims don’t match real traffic exits ipinfo.io - 188 comments 318 points
  2. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? news.ycombinator.com - 309 comments 289 points
  3. I tried Gleam for Advent of Code blog.tymscar.com - 144 comments 255 points
  4. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 news.ycombinator.com - 85 comments 235 points
  5. Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith www.twilio.com - 167 comments 209 points
  6. YouTube’s CEO limits his kids’ social media use – other tech bosses do the same www.cnbc.com - 177 comments 189 points
  7. LG TV’s new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted old.reddit.com - 143 comments 170 points
  8. Recovering Anthony Bourdain’s - really lost Li.st’s sandyuraz.com - 55 comments 167 points
  9. Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C fil-c.org - 46 comments 167 points
  10. Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost www.science.org - 115 comments 159 points
  11. I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model susam.net - 66 comments 142 points
  12. Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? - video www.youtube.com - 145 comments 137 points
  13. Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet pv-magazine-usa.com - 168 comments 132 points
  14. We built another object storage fractalbits.com - 45 comments 128 points
  15. Dick Van Dyke turns 100 www.theguardian.com - 2 comments 117 points
  16. Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo gabrielweinberg.com - 75 comments 99 points
  17. Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future www.positive.news - 46 comments 77 points
  18. The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure technicshistory.com - 25 comments 70 points
  19. Workday project at Washington University hits $266M www.theregister.com - 81 comments 69 points
  20. Germany’s train service is one of Europe’s worst. How did it get so bad? www.npr.org - 117 comments 67 points
  21. Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads www.forbes.com - 51 comments 58 points
  22. Closures as Win32 Window Procedures nullprogram.com - 5 comments 54 points
  23. Building an efficient hash table in Java bluuewhale.github.io - 3 comments 54 points
  24. RemoveWindowsAI github.com - 51 comments 53 points
  25. AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement www.wbur.org - 66 comments 50 points
  26. A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg www.outsideonline.com - 42 comments 48 points
  27. Windows 3.1 in the Browser www.pcjs.org - 2 comments 45 points
  28. Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory www.fsf.org - 3 comments 44 points
  29. An Implementation of J www.jsoftware.com - 18 comments 43 points
  30. Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode nand2mario.github.io - 13 comments 42 points