Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-10-28

  1. ‘Not of faculty quality’: How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó www.thedp.com - 325 comments 485 points
  2. Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript goose.icu - 259 comments 432 points
  3. Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic www.reuters.com - 237 comments 247 points
  4. The fun factor of the video game Uplink vertette.github.io - 58 comments 240 points
  5. Large Balloon Reflector: a potentially game-changing antenna design www.nasa.gov - 67 comments 215 points
  6. Generate images in one second on your Mac using a latent consistency model replicate.com - 69 comments 211 points
  7. When gradient descent is a kernel method cgad.ski - 35 comments 181 points
  8. Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine www.theverge.com - 175 comments 176 points
  9. 18-year-old built a computer monitor that doesn’t strain your eyes www.fastcompany.com - 155 comments 176 points
  10. Microsoft is failing to deliver emails that mention newclimate.org newclimate.org - 77 comments 175 points
  11. Android 14’s user-profile data bug arstechnica.com - 85 comments 170 points
  12. Google can turn ANC earbuds into a heart rate monitor with no extra hardware 9to5google.com - 66 comments 170 points
  13. Visualizing quaternions (2018) eater.net - 40 comments 169 points
  14. Images from the 2023 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition www.nikonsmallworld.com - 33 comments 155 points
  15. A small warning about UDP based protocols boston.conman.org - 97 comments 149 points
  16. Algebra www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu - 39 comments 144 points
  17. OpenBSD: Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel marc.info - 107 comments 140 points
  18. Cortex X2: ARM aims high chipsandcheese.com - 70 comments 130 points
  19. New Study Says Maybe Helicopter Parenting Is Making Kids Depressed www.techdirt.com - 132 comments 129 points
  20. The convolution empire strikes back gonzoml.substack.com - 43 comments 127 points
  21. Show HN: Biblos – Semantic Bible Embedded Vector Search and Claude LLM github.com - 77 comments 126 points
  22. The destruction of Gaza’s internet is complete www.wired.com - 409 comments 120 points
  23. Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom www.ch3ngl0rd.com - 82 comments 119 points
  24. The UK’s Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law www.wired.com - 117 comments 118 points
  25. The Xiaomi 14 with the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has a 32 to 64-bit translator twitter.com - 27 comments 117 points
  26. WinterJS wasmer.io - 66 comments 108 points
  27. New devices could change the way we measure blood pressure knowablemagazine.org - 61 comments 107 points
  28. Scientists simulate backward time travel using quantum entanglement thedebrief.org - 59 comments 106 points
  29. Show HN: Pākiki Proxy – An intercepting proxy for penetration testing pakikiproxy.com - 42 comments 94 points
  30. Krita is now available on the macOS store krita.org - 17 comments 94 points