Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-11-08

  1. Seeing like a bank www.bitsaboutmoney.com - 345 comments 466 points
  2. Euclid’s First Images www.esa.int - 87 comments 353 points
  3. Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2 www.remedygames.com - 161 comments 339 points
  4. Antidepressants or Tolkien antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app - 69 comments 308 points
  5. Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger www.techdirt.com - 158 comments 270 points
  6. Videos of Godotcon 2023 media.ccc.de - 43 comments 239 points
  7. Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler www.riverphillips.dev - 90 comments 233 points
  8. You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020) www.benkuhn.net - 104 comments 229 points
  9. Maine’s constitution has unprintable sections www.mitsc.org - 222 comments 226 points
  10. What does and doesn’t matter about Apple shooting their October event on iPhone prolost.com - 114 comments 226 points
  11. Article 45 of eIDAS 2.0 will roll back web security by 12 years www.eff.org - 112 comments 218 points
  12. Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM gleam.run - 102 comments 218 points
  13. A C Compiler that fits in the 512 byte boot sector of an x86 machine github.com - 58 comments 203 points
  14. A four year plan for async Rust without.boats - 219 comments 197 points
  15. The Escapist staff resign following termination of editor-in-chief Nick Calandra www.gamesindustry.biz - 100 comments 189 points
  16. Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data arstechnica.com - 150 comments 179 points
  17. Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to “market conditions” arstechnica.com - 251 comments 166 points
  18. Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist www.nature.com - 107 comments 166 points
  19. Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy (part 1) sebmestre.blogspot.com - 69 comments 158 points
  20. ‘Ray, this is a religion’: How Bridgewater lost two top hires nymag.com - 132 comments 156 points
  21. U.S. military members’ personal data being sold by online brokers www.axios.com - 150 comments 150 points
  22. Fedora 39 Released fedoramagazine.org - 93 comments 150 points
  23. Tutanota is now Tuta tuta.com - 114 comments 144 points
  24. I Know What You Download on BitTorrent iknowwhatyoudownload.com - 130 comments 142 points
  25. Italy to seize $835M from Airbnb in tax evasion inquiry www.bbc.co.uk - 148 comments 141 points
  26. I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 “Treasury Default” Playbook www.crisesnotes.com - 104 comments 140 points
  27. Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes rachelbythebay.com - 36 comments 139 points
  28. Ex-Kotaku staff go independent and launch Aftermath aftermath.site - 168 comments 137 points
  29. Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT www.lumafield.com - 117 comments 135 points
  30. Whole Earth Catalog (1968) [pdf] monoskop.org - 30 comments 125 points