Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-28

  1. Floor796 floor796.com - 81 comments 675 points
  2. Nvidia’s $20B antitrust loophole ossa-ma.github.io - 129 comments 408 points
  3. Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views github.com - 188 comments 370 points
  4. How we lost communication to entertainment ploum.net - 186 comments 363 points
  5. Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English npmjs.com - 175 comments 357 points
  6. Gpg.fail gpg.fail - 175 comments 331 points
  7. Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers - 2022 devblogs.microsoft.com - 103 comments 255 points
  8. Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML www.htmhell.dev - 65 comments 243 points
  9. Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75% blog.drjoshcsimmons.com - 165 comments 203 points
  10. USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994 wolfstreet.com - 196 comments 198 points
  11. Say No to Palantir in the NHS notopalantir.goodlawproject.org - 42 comments 167 points
  12. Toll roads are spreading in America www.economist.com - 457 comments 165 points
  13. OrangePi 6 Plus Review boilingsteam.com - 136 comments 156 points
  14. Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave www.linkedin.com - 57 comments 154 points
  15. Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans www.shanethegamer.com - 46 comments 145 points
  16. Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA www.quantamagazine.org - 57 comments 131 points
  17. Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 - video www.youtube.com - 23 comments 124 points
  18. Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi www.ninakalinina.com - 25 comments 118 points
  19. Calendar neatnik.net - 24 comments 110 points
  20. Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life www.popularmechanics.com - 38 comments 109 points
  21. How we automated federal retirements ndstudio.gov - 88 comments 94 points
  22. VSCode rebrands as “The open source AI code editor” code.visualstudio.com - 64 comments 93 points
  23. Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early ’90s - 2024 www.statnews.com - 39 comments 93 points
  24. Splice a Fibre react-networks-lib.rackout.net - 41 comments 92 points
  25. CloudFlare is ruining the internet - for me (2016) www.slashgeek.net - 75 comments 89 points
  26. An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil www.wsj.com - 85 comments 88 points
  27. More dynamic cronjobs george.mand.is - 25 comments 86 points
  28. How We Found Out About COINTELPRO - 2014 monthlyreview.org - 40 comments 81 points
  29. Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure blog.rastrian.dev - 67 comments 80 points
  30. PNG in Chrome shows a different image than in Safari or any desktop app lr0.org - 41 comments 67 points