Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-29

  1. Claude Opus 4.8 www.anthropic.com - 1193 comments 1528 points
  2. Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man’s $200k Lego Collection mybricklog.com - 436 comments 947 points
  3. Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks lenz.io - 341 comments 489 points
  4. I made a million dollar product from my dorm room - 2025 nick.winans.io - 62 comments 399 points
  5. Citing ‘severe’ math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM www.latimes.com - 610 comments 395 points
  6. GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits www.tomshardware.com - 174 comments 392 points
  7. Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation www.anthropic.com - 364 comments 343 points
  8. AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes itsfoss.com - 158 comments 330 points
  9. EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products www.bbc.co.uk - 329 comments 328 points
  10. Cars collect a startling amount of data about you www.bbc.com - 150 comments 327 points
  11. Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue llmgame.scalex.dev - 133 comments 322 points
  12. Building durable workflows on Postgres www.dbos.dev - 133 comments 312 points
  13. Various LLM Smells shvbsle.in - 242 comments 308 points
  14. Blue Origin’s New Glenn blows up during static fire test twitter.com - 287 comments 286 points
  15. New York passes pied-a-terre tax www.cnbc.com - 426 comments 269 points
  16. Nitpicking the shell history scene in ‘Tron: Legacy’ www.chiark.greenend.org.uk - 83 comments 247 points
  17. I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it - 2024 www.science.org - 89 comments 221 points
  18. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions fortune.com - 164 comments 213 points
  19. SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims sfstandard.com - 100 comments 209 points
  20. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test arstechnica.com - 8 comments 206 points
  21. The Permanent Upper Crow permanent-upper-crow.jasonwu.ink - 74 comments 185 points
  22. AI sticker shock hits corporate America www.axios.com - 134 comments 160 points
  23. Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion github.com - 77 comments 158 points
  24. Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code claude.com - 114 comments 145 points
  25. Announcing Rust 1.96 blog.rust-lang.org - 26 comments 130 points
  26. We replaced Zendesk tradecore.com - 88 comments 114 points
  27. Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock ipvm.com - 65 comments 110 points
  28. Bitburner, programming-based incremental game bitburner-official.github.io - 23 comments 101 points
  29. Social Animus justine.lol - 60 comments 91 points
  30. Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime github.com - 26 comments 90 points