Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-11-26

  1. Sqids – Generate Short Unique IDs from Numbers sqids.org - 166 comments 414 points
  2. The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation economicsfromthetopdown.com - 140 comments 369 points
  3. Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it github.com - 90 comments 285 points
  4. Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company’s code www.engadget.com - 174 comments 280 points
  5. Why 56k is the fastest dial up modem speed www.10stripe.com - 113 comments 219 points
  6. The new Paris métro www.forbes.com - 211 comments 204 points
  7. ArchiveTeam is downloading and saving content from Blogger wiki.archiveteam.org - 91 comments 195 points
  8. Shh: Simple Shell Scripting from Haskell github.com - 30 comments 182 points
  9. Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat naev.org - 26 comments 178 points
  10. Darktable: Crashing into the wall in slow-motion ansel.photos - 98 comments 160 points
  11. New Wave Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 1964–1983 www.hilobrow.com - 76 comments 149 points
  12. Sopwith – a classic bi-plane shoot ’em up from 1984 in the browser midzer.de - 55 comments 146 points
  13. Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it github.com - 106 comments 132 points
  14. New CRISPR systems hold promise for genome editing www.nature.com - 23 comments 113 points
  15. A chatbot that can’t say anything controversial isn’t worth much www.theatlantic.com - 49 comments 92 points
  16. Offpunk 2.0 ploum.net - 23 comments 92 points
  17. The Curse of Docker computer.rip - 37 comments 85 points
  18. Ask HN: How can my mom downshift as a SQL developer? news.ycombinator.com - 76 comments 80 points
  19. Stop using JSON Web Tokens for user sessions ds-security.com - 135 comments 72 points
  20. A Light in the Woods alightinthewoods.net - 13 comments 66 points
  21. Need a PRNG? Use a CSPRNG sortingsearching.com - 78 comments 64 points
  22. We have lost access to approximately €6k in bounties newpipe.net - 8 comments 58 points
  23. Preparing for the end of third-party cookies developer.chrome.com - 51 comments 57 points
  24. Superficial toxicity is the enemy of curiosity-driven innovation in science avi-loeb.medium.com - 35 comments 57 points
  25. Tell HN: Firefox has madea lotof progress. Let the browser wars continue news.ycombinator.com - 29 comments 57 points
  26. It’s time for a new old language (2017) [pdf] groups.csail.mit.edu - 7 comments 57 points
  27. Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: August, September, and October 2023 dolphin-emu.org - 4 comments 56 points
  28. Ancient Echoes www.etymonline.com - 22 comments 55 points
  29. Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History www.theatlantic.com - 46 comments 52 points
  30. Postgres: Extensions Shape the Future [pdf] blog.rustprooflabs.com - 4 comments 52 points