Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-04

  1. Half-Baked Product weli.dev - 381 comments 1260 points
  2. Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own www.gamingonlinux.com - 102 comments 555 points
  3. Costco is the anti-Amazon phenomenalworld.org - 367 comments 394 points
  4. Espionage Against the European Parliament citizenlab.ca - 87 comments 356 points
  5. Jamesob’s guide to running SOTA LLMs locally github.com - 151 comments 334 points
  6. Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says www.reuters.com - 274 comments 326 points
  7. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror wordgard.net - 97 comments 294 points
  8. 60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it github.com - 89 comments 265 points
  9. Factories are just rooms interconnected.org - 98 comments 238 points
  10. Zuckerberg ‘Admits’ Meta’s Layoffs Were Ineffective eshumarneedi.com - 216 comments 237 points
  11. Please stop the AI confidence theater www.elenaverna.com - 245 comments 228 points
  12. Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper www.wafer.ai - 73 comments 226 points
  13. Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP arxiv.org - 152 comments 221 points
  14. Holes xkcd.com - 37 comments 216 points
  15. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all mistral.ai - 50 comments 210 points
  16. SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine github.com - 53 comments 202 points
  17. I Wasn’t Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination - 2025 inpreparation.substack.com - 96 comments 192 points
  18. Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research news.exeter.ac.uk - 89 comments 189 points
  19. Memorizing session transcripts isn’t useful 12gramsofcarbon.com - 153 comments 177 points
  20. PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit www.ubicloud.com - 101 comments 168 points
  21. International chess federation sanctions Kramnik www.fide.com - 89 comments 151 points
  22. Africans Are Turning to Starlink www.economist.com - 182 comments 149 points
  23. The Fall and Rise of Screwworm www.construction-physics.com - 60 comments 143 points
  24. FreeBSD ate my RAM crocidb.com - 45 comments 133 points
  25. Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming katamari64.se - 171 comments 132 points
  26. The bottleneck might be the air in the room blog.mikebowler.ca - 61 comments 132 points
  27. Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV github.com - 27 comments 129 points
  28. America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report www.derekthompson.org - 176 comments 125 points
  29. The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything www.filfre.net - 15 comments 117 points
  30. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines apnews.com - 118 comments 115 points