Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-05

  1. Leaking YouTube creators’ private videos javoriuski.com - 329 comments 603 points
  2. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable github.com - 224 comments 552 points
  3. Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux - 2019 peteris.rocks - 58 comments 469 points
  4. Google Books - or similar all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) software.annas-archive.gl - 242 comments 456 points
  5. Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts github.com - 130 comments 293 points
  6. GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance github.com - 97 comments 258 points
  7. Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply www.tomshardware.com - 77 comments 229 points
  8. Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe www.quantamagazine.org - 123 comments 203 points
  9. Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System ziglang.org - 60 comments 188 points
  10. Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray stories.tamu.edu - 73 comments 187 points
  11. If you’re a button, you have one job unsung.aresluna.org - 81 comments 179 points
  12. Better Models: Worse Tools lucumr.pocoo.org - 54 comments 166 points
  13. Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches www.jefftk.com - 101 comments 149 points
  14. Fable created novel 4D splat format adamraudonis.github.io - 53 comments 147 points
  15. “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky www.eso.org - 234 comments 141 points
  16. Wicklow hotel cancels ‘secretive’ Peter Thiel group conference www.irishtimes.com - 43 comments 116 points
  17. Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets www.mbl.edu - 23 comments 114 points
  18. As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of ‘zombie’ towers www.seattletimes.com - 156 comments 110 points
  19. Finland’s last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years www.euronews.com - 30 comments 109 points
  20. Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix ui.shadcn.com - 32 comments 108 points
  21. The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review lispcookbook.github.io - 0 comments 103 points
  22. Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition - wince-dc github.com - 28 comments 102 points
  23. AI has torched the market for junior programmers seldo.com - 172 comments 90 points
  24. President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for ‘fixing their car’ www.msn.com - 36 comments 68 points
  25. The Fediverse Is Not the Way Forward trialandfailure.net - 10 comments 67 points
  26. Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer’s pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - 47 comments 63 points
  27. Rob Pike – ‘Concurrency Is Not Parallelism’ - video - 2012 vimeo.com - 39 comments 63 points
  28. BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments github.com - 40 comments 62 points
  29. Plein Air art.joonas.wtf - 9 comments 59 points
  30. I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago extelligence.substack.com - 11 comments 57 points