Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-12-15

  1. Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find arstechnica.com - 216 comments 631 points
  2. Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth www.cnn.com - 338 comments 554 points
  3. Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp www.hashicorp.com - 114 comments 471 points
  4. Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android blog.mozilla.org - 170 comments 420 points
  5. Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad davidkcaudill.medium.com - 234 comments 371 points
  6. Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip www.bsc.es - 140 comments 350 points
  7. Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016) ezali.substack.com - 94 comments 314 points
  8. Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills? news.ycombinator.com - 123 comments 305 points
  9. FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs deepmind.google - 68 comments 298 points
  10. The AI Trust Crisis simonwillison.net - 258 comments 293 points
  11. Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine community.ui.com - 245 comments 271 points
  12. Moderna Melanoma Vaccine Cuts Death Rate in Half www.reuters.com - 87 comments 268 points
  13. Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers scifiinterfaces.com - 138 comments 256 points
  14. Ledger’s NPM account has been hacked github.com - 109 comments 232 points
  15. Intel CEO: ‘The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market’ www.tomshardware.com - 255 comments 227 points
  16. Canadian internet bill S-210 is a step closer to becoming law www.michaelgeist.ca - 207 comments 215 points
  17. Police have undermined the promise of body cameras www.propublica.org - 211 comments 207 points
  18. Apple partly halts Beeper’s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead arstechnica.com - 414 comments 196 points
  19. Deno 1.39: The Return of WebGPU deno.com - 58 comments 182 points
  20. Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020) janezhang.ca - 88 comments 181 points
  21. JWST Captures Image of Supernova That ‘Absolutely Shattered’ a Star www.smithsonianmag.com - 49 comments 173 points
  22. Should you add screenshots to documentation? thisisimportant.net - 118 comments 159 points
  23. Show HN: Airdraw www.airdraw.io - 33 comments 154 points
  24. Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available on Hetzner www.ubicloud.com - 56 comments 146 points
  25. Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case? retrocomputing.stackexchange.com - 131 comments 138 points
  26. ‘It’s all gone’: CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission www.nature.com - 25 comments 132 points
  27. FCC votes to ban termination fees for cable and satellite services www.cnbc.com - 15 comments 132 points
  28. Men should abstain from drinking at least three months prior to conceiving today.tamu.edu - 168 comments 130 points
  29. Google Groups ending support for Usenet support.google.com - 78 comments 130 points
  30. Cruise slashes 24% of self-driving car workforce in sweeping layoffs techcrunch.com - 248 comments 125 points