Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-07-25

  1. Claude Opus 5 www.anthropic.com - 840 comments 1509 points
  2. If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse? ptrchm.com - 556 comments 730 points
  3. It’s getting harder to focus every day glyphack.com - 396 comments 721 points
  4. Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models www.cnbc.com - 260 comments 587 points
  5. My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page hhh.hn - 188 comments 576 points
  6. Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story www.theguardian.com - 279 comments 480 points
  7. Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey www.thehindu.com - 334 comments 457 points
  8. Em dashes are amazing psychotechnology.substack.com - 289 comments 349 points
  9. Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models bfl.ai - 49 comments 314 points
  10. Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS discuss.haiku-os.org - 54 comments 295 points
  11. Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales www.dbos.dev - 53 comments 294 points
  12. IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon’s Bahrain data center houseofsaud.com - 345 comments 283 points
  13. Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds ziggit.dev - 172 comments 269 points
  14. Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard artificialanalysis.ai - 148 comments 267 points
  15. Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall www.wsj.com - 81 comments 200 points
  16. The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote - 2010 sive.rs - 78 comments 198 points
  17. Future euro banknote design proposals www.ecb.europa.eu - 155 comments 174 points
  18. Don’t Take the Black Pill - video www.youtube.com - 151 comments 172 points
  19. Patreon laying off 20% of staff www.patreon.com - 262 comments 156 points
  20. Hetzner is working on LLM Inference sliplane.io - 79 comments 148 points
  21. Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach www.maths.cam.ac.uk - 24 comments 128 points
  22. Codeberg Divides lucumr.pocoo.org - 174 comments 123 points
  23. Unitree As2-W www.unitree.com - 52 comments 120 points
  24. Open Weights and American AI Leadership - pdf images.nvidia.com - 2 comments 111 points
  25. SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream - video www.spacex.com - 140 comments 109 points
  26. I got into YC Startup School by hacking it obaid.wtf - 67 comments 103 points
  27. I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year www.alexhyett.com - 79 comments 96 points
  28. The case for MUDs in modern times - 2018 www.andrewzigler.com - 73 comments 96 points
  29. JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal openjdk.org - 89 comments 95 points
  30. Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep news.st-andrews.ac.uk - 12 comments 87 points