Hacker News top 30 - 2023-10-29

1. Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic www.reuters.com - 362 comments 385 points
2. The fun factor of the video game Uplink vertette.github.io - 85 comments 340 points
3. FCC wants to bolster amateur radio www.radioworld.com - 159 comments 297 points
4. Show HN: OpenSign – Open source alternative to DocuSign github.com - 97 comments 278 points
5. MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer ephtracy.github.io - 45 comments 276 points
6. Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way iliana.fyi - 137 comments 267 points
7. **Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]** www.youtube.com - 100 comments 190 points
8. Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds blog.ornx.net - 53 comments 187 points
9. Electroreduction of nitrogen with almost 100% current-to-ammonia efficiency www.nature.com - 102 comments 182 points
10. Cortex X2: ARM aims high chipsandcheese.com - 107 comments 179 points
11. Friend’s Chandler, Matthew Perry, died at 54 www.latimes.com - 121 comments 170 points
12. Arena Allocation in SBCL github.com - 23 comments 168 points
13. Elixir and Phoenix can do it all fly.io - 78 comments 143 points
14. The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People www.monbiot.com - 118 comments 139 points
15. WinterJS wasmer.io - 79 comments 135 points
16. The UK’s Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law www.wired.com - 138 comments 129 points
17. React use C github.com - 54 comments 128 points
18. McDonalds is giving free French fries in return for waiving the right to sue www.mashed.com - 69 comments 121 points
19. Show HN: Demystifying Advanced RAG Pipelines github.com - 18 comments 117 points
20. Actual is going open-source (2022) actualbudget.com - 21 comments 101 points
21. Craig Murray seeks UN protection in Switzerland against British persecution www.wsws.org - 56 comments 98 points
22. Anti-ChatGPT github.com - 59 comments 97 points
23. How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything writings.stephenwolfram.com - 59 comments 95 points
24. WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound github.com - 12 comments 95 points
25. Why has America settled on colonoscopies when most of the world has not? asteriskmag.com - 61 comments 91 points
26. Pope tempted by Python. Signs off on coding scheme for kids www.theregister.com - 55 comments 84 points
27. Watch this guy work and you’ll finally understand the TikTok era www.wired.com - 103 comments 82 points
28. Did the entire media industry misquote a hamas spokesperson? www.silentlunch.net - 50 comments 79 points
29. Charter Houses (2022) slimemoldtimemold.com - 42 comments 78 points
30. XRDP with H.264 codec brings immense performance boost old.reddit.com - 19 comments 78 points