Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-12

  1. Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii www.theguardian.com - 98 comments 289 points
  2. Prefer strict tables in SQLite evanhahn.com - 130 comments 273 points
  3. What xAI’s Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI gist.github.com - 122 comments 260 points
  4. Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem antjs.org - 107 comments 252 points
  5. Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom io-fund.com - 82 comments 244 points
  6. Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh www.iroh.computer - 50 comments 225 points
  7. Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot www.mixfont.com - 153 comments 210 points
  8. We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput clickhouse.com - 44 comments 203 points
  9. AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence geohot.github.io - 232 comments 199 points
  10. Networking and the Internet, from First Principles fazamhd.com - 66 comments 198 points
  11. Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented - 2016 www.smithsonianmag.com - 121 comments 184 points
  12. Modern decor may be straining people’s brains studyfinds.com - 188 comments 179 points
  13. Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM blog.yaelwrites.com - 104 comments 177 points
  14. UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction timeseriesofindia.com - 63 comments 175 points
  15. Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch shipthatcode.com - 43 comments 163 points
  16. How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us - 2016 archive.cancerworld.net - 82 comments 151 points
  17. Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find - 2025 news.vt.edu - 78 comments 135 points
  18. RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch github.com - 19 comments 130 points
  19. Your code is fast if you’re lucky tiki.li - 83 comments 124 points
  20. How to hide from killer drones www.economist.com - 157 comments 121 points
  21. FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky theconversation.com - 143 comments 119 points
  22. The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition - 1993 - pdf www.math.ucdavis.edu - 63 comments 113 points
  23. Why it’s so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves www.bloomberg.com - 144 comments 109 points
  24. Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox - 2025 pluralistic.net - 63 comments 103 points
  25. Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19 www.ijidonline.com - 48 comments 99 points
  26. Why are US consumers so angry? It’s not just high prices www.theguardian.com - 102 comments 92 points
  27. Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine - 1965 - pdf languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu - 49 comments 91 points
  28. A pure scheme web programming tool goeteia.dev - 20 comments 88 points
  29. Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids www.quantamagazine.org - 44 comments 87 points
  30. ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files www.zerofs.net - 18 comments 76 points