Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-25

  1. I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support nickyreinert.de - 504 comments 859 points
  2. Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic www.bloomberg.com - 508 comments 520 points
  3. Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing kevinlynagh.com - 105 comments 409 points
  4. Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s www.bloomberg.com - 445 comments 386 points
  5. How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences nate.leaflet.pub - 314 comments 341 points
  6. Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler github.com - 86 comments 321 points
  7. SDL Now Supports DOS github.com - 100 comments 248 points
  8. Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy’s lecture ynarwal.github.io - 53 comments 235 points
  9. OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API developers.openai.com - 126 comments 232 points
  10. South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf www.bbc.com - 149 comments 223 points
  11. My audio interface has SSH enabled by default hhh.hn - 72 comments 221 points
  12. Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute techcrunch.com - 7 comments 207 points
  13. There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning arxiv.org - 79 comments 204 points
  14. The Classic American Diner blogs.loc.gov - 122 comments 202 points
  15. Hear your agent suffer through your code github.com - 84 comments 186 points
  16. UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba www.bmj.com - 79 comments 186 points
  17. Firefox Has Integrated Brave’s Adblock Engine itsfoss.com - 72 comments 166 points
  18. I’m done making desktop applications - 2009 www.kalzumeus.com - 183 comments 165 points
  19. Tariffs Raised Consumers’ Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses www.nytimes.com - 57 comments 154 points
  20. Refuse to let your doctor record you buttondown.com - 198 comments 152 points
  21. SFO Quiet Airport - 2025 viewfromthewing.com - 82 comments 142 points
  22. Google Flow Music www.flowmusic.app - 125 comments 127 points
  23. Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom github.com - 16 comments 123 points
  24. The operating cost of adult and gambling startups orchidfiles.com - 193 comments 120 points
  25. Aspartame is not that bad? - 2022 dynomight.net - 244 comments 118 points
  26. Composition shouldn’t be this hard www.cambra.dev - 73 comments 118 points
  27. Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly jeroen.github.io - 38 comments 118 points
  28. Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go github.com - 26 comments 118 points
  29. Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations gigazine.net - 41 comments 112 points
  30. Show HN: I’ve built a nice home server OS lightwhale.asklandd.dk - 43 comments 106 points