Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-27

  1. Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI skyview.social - 1609 comments 1349 points
  2. How uv got so fast nesbitt.io - 251 comments 743 points
  3. Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out nesbitt.io - 348 comments 607 points
  4. FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub twitter.com - 150 comments 450 points
  5. My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL old.reddit.com - 164 comments 384 points
  6. Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations nhmu.utah.edu - 174 comments 346 points
  7. I’m a laptop weirdo and that’s why I like my new Framework 13 blog.matthewbrunelle.com - 260 comments 272 points
  8. Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness” simonwillison.net - 201 comments 268 points
  9. Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system github.com - 37 comments 263 points
  10. ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests community.openai.com - 151 comments 228 points
  11. LearnixOS www.learnix-os.com - 83 comments 207 points
  12. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? news.ycombinator.com - 281 comments 203 points
  13. Always bet on text - 2014 graydon2.dreamwidth.org - 74 comments 168 points
  14. How Lewis Carroll computed determinants - 2023 www.johndcook.com - 42 comments 163 points
  15. Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago acadlisp.de - 35 comments 115 points
  16. A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash blog.nawaz.org - 122 comments 114 points
  17. High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects www.smithsonianmag.com - 101 comments 108 points
  18. Unix “find” expressions compiled to bytecode nullprogram.com - 15 comments 108 points
  19. Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 - Xtensa in 700 lines github.com - 20 comments 104 points
  20. Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith catalinionescu.dev - 46 comments 101 points
  21. QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop devblog.qnx.com - 43 comments 99 points
  22. Exe.dev exe.dev - 53 comments 96 points
  23. ICE’s interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: ‘What is it for?’ www.politico.com - 78 comments 94 points
  24. T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types type-ruby.github.io - 57 comments 93 points
  25. Drawing with zero-width characters zw.swerdlow.dev - 29 comments 89 points
  26. ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0 railsatscale.com - 27 comments 85 points
  27. Codex vs. Claude Code - today build.ms - 89 comments 83 points
  28. Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment ibrahimcesar.cloud - 46 comments 82 points
  29. Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster www.folklore.org - 95 comments 75 points
  30. How I think about Kubernetes garnaudov.com - 50 comments 73 points