Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-11-04

  1. As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code dunfield.themindfactory.com - 178 comments 692 points
  2. I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video] www.youtube.com - 281 comments 619 points
  3. No dogs were harmed in the making of this app shmck.substack.com - 175 comments 415 points
  4. Bringing garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly v8.dev - 229 comments 385 points
  5. Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all Africans africa.businessinsider.com - 110 comments 244 points
  6. Cloudflare outage – 24 hours now news.ycombinator.com - 66 comments 230 points
  7. Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document www.portugaltheman.com - 64 comments 215 points
  8. Joint statement of scientists and NGOs on the EU’s proposed eIDAS reform eidas-open-letter.org - 57 comments 213 points
  9. First observation of a virus attaching to another virus umbc.edu - 52 comments 204 points
  10. M3 Macs: there’s more to performance than counting cores eclecticlight.co - 350 comments 188 points
  11. GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users github.com - 125 comments 187 points
  12. Okta hit by another breach, stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor arstechnica.com - 85 comments 182 points
  13. The Binder Linux driver is being rewritten in Rust lore.kernel.org - 93 comments 178 points
  14. Bayer hit with $332M judgement in Roundup cancer trial fortune.com - 163 comments 177 points
  15. Appeals court denies judicial immunity to judge who personally searched home ij.org - 162 comments 177 points
  16. GitHub 404 errors news.ycombinator.com - 68 comments 173 points
  17. Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek www.cnbc.com - 198 comments 172 points
  18. Hidden manuals: gittutorial, giteveryday, gitglossary, gitworkflow news.ycombinator.com - 37 comments 172 points
  19. Pix2tex: Using a ViT to convert images of equations into LaTeX code github.com - 52 comments 169 points
  20. Why You Should Write Your Own Static Site Generator arne.me - 118 comments 164 points
  21. Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data podman-desktop.io - 75 comments 162 points
  22. EU Tries to Slip in New Powers to Intercept Encrypted Web Traffic www.techdirt.com - 24 comments 161 points
  23. Guide to Adopting AV1 Encoding bitmovin.com - 80 comments 138 points
  24. Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024 visualstudio.microsoft.com - 136 comments 137 points
  25. Wooden Game Boy there.oughta.be - 20 comments 133 points
  26. Nuclear Conversion for Starship toughsf.blogspot.com - 138 comments 132 points
  27. Java JEP 461: Stream Gatherers openjdk.org - 156 comments 125 points
  28. AMD MicroBlaze V Processor: A Flexible and Efficient RISC-V Processor www.xilinx.com - 23 comments 123 points
  29. Ken Mattingly, astronaut scrubbed from Apollo 13, has died www.nytimes.com - 47 comments 121 points
  30. Uranium Demand Hits Decade High as Nuclear Renaissance Gains Traction oilprice.com - 112 comments 120 points