Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2025-12-29

  1. What an unprocessed photo looks like maurycyz.com - 188 comments 958 points
  2. Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China’s nuclear city in the Gobi Desert substack.com - 326 comments 738 points
  3. Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief eclecticlight.co - 353 comments 452 points
  4. Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling stanislas.blog - 110 comments 259 points
  5. Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years github.com - 151 comments 243 points
  6. Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free www.scratchapixel.com - 26 comments 229 points
  7. CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? - 2021 www.newstatesman.com - 235 comments 198 points
  8. Unity’s Mono problem: Why your C# code runs slower than it should marekfiser.com - 74 comments 158 points
  9. AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos www.kapwing.com - 164 comments 157 points
  10. MongoBleed Explained Simply bigdata.2minutestreaming.com - 62 comments 157 points
  11. PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP Using Python pysdr.org - 8 comments 157 points
  12. Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer www.ucsf.edu - 40 comments 154 points
  13. Software engineers should be a little bit cynical www.seangoedecke.com - 109 comments 149 points
  14. You can make up HTML tags maurycyz.com - 59 comments 140 points
  15. No, it’s not a battleship www.navalgazing.net - 167 comments 128 points
  16. Rich Hickey: Thanks AI gist.github.com - 51 comments 125 points
  17. C++ says “We have try… finally at home” devblogs.microsoft.com - 130 comments 113 points
  18. As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise www.npr.org - 111 comments 108 points
  19. 62 years in the making: NYC’s newest water tunnel nears the finish line ny1.com - 65 comments 108 points
  20. Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512 dolphin-emu.org - 9 comments 107 points
  21. Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains medicine.yale.edu - 60 comments 90 points
  22. 2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years - pdf - 2024 www.pewresearch.org - 167 comments 86 points
  23. Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis www.idc.com - 95 comments 83 points
  24. Remembering Lou Gerstner newsroom.ibm.com - 37 comments 83 points
  25. Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award - blog skerritt.blog - 14 comments 82 points
  26. Spherical Cow lib.rs - 7 comments 78 points
  27. Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results news.ycombinator.com - 78 comments 73 points
  28. Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain www.kenklippenstein.com - 63 comments 70 points
  29. Self-hosting is being enshittified troubled.engineer - 51 comments 69 points
  30. Loss of moist broadleaf forest in Africa has turned a carbon sink into source www.nature.com - 25 comments 67 points