Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-12-03

  1. Tiny volumetric display mitxela.com - 136 comments 1129 points
  2. You don’t need JavaScript for that www.htmhell.dev - 312 comments 794 points
  3. No new boss at NSA until it answers questions on buying location, browsing data www.theregister.com - 179 comments 320 points
  4. Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds www.science.org - 99 comments 271 points
  5. Not a real engineer (2019) twitchard.github.io - 25 comments 219 points
  6. Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about? news.ycombinator.com - 279 comments 214 points
  7. Infants understand language via rhythm and tone rather than individual sounds www.theguardian.com - 68 comments 185 points
  8. GQL – Git Query Language github.com - 51 comments 177 points
  9. Easy to use OpenID Connect client and server library written for Go github.com - 43 comments 154 points
  10. Is Ada safer than Rust? old.reddit.com - 96 comments 153 points
  11. Can’t sign in with FIDO2 key on office.com bugzilla.mozilla.org - 69 comments 147 points
  12. Review: A Dive into Mikrotik’s Weird SmartNIC (2022) alyx.sh - 36 comments 137 points
  13. Cicadas are so loud, fiber optic cables can ‘hear’ them www.wired.com - 50 comments 121 points
  14. Dark patterns in UX design and how to avoid them dodonut.com - 54 comments 120 points
  15. Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw github.com - 28 comments 115 points
  16. Why are we being DDoSed by Cloudflare? news.ycombinator.com - 48 comments 113 points
  17. EmacsConf Live Now emacsconf.org - 58 comments 108 points
  18. Generative AI is killing our sense of awe www.fastcompany.com - 128 comments 107 points
  19. Galactic algorithm en.wikipedia.org - 15 comments 103 points
  20. UniFi Express ui.com - 127 comments 101 points
  21. Submarine Cable Map 2023 submarine-cable-map-2023.telegeography.com - 49 comments 101 points
  22. Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022) journals.sagepub.com - 16 comments 101 points
  23. Scalable extraction of training data from (production) language models arxiv.org - 14 comments 98 points
  24. LibreChat – Enhanced ChatGPT Clone github.com - 16 comments 95 points
  25. How Meta patches Linux at hyperscale thenewstack.io - 70 comments 94 points
  26. Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++ www.jviotti.com - 58 comments 91 points
  27. Retinal cells that help stabilize our world view optometry.berkeley.edu - 20 comments 84 points
  28. Google Maps now looks more like Apple Maps www.techradar.com - 91 comments 83 points
  29. Factory construction boom in the US wolfstreet.com - 77 comments 75 points
  30. Designing a distributed SQL engine: Challenges and decisions en.oceanbase.com - 4 comments 75 points