Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-12-16

  1. Database Fundamentals tontinton.com - 117 comments 639 points
  2. Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules arstechnica.com - 300 comments 444 points
  3. I bricked my Christmas lights www.whizzy.org - 50 comments 370 points
  4. How Lego builds a new Lego set www.theverge.com - 219 comments 357 points
  5. Oxlint – JavaScript linter written in Rust oxc-project.github.io - 187 comments 278 points
  6. WebP is so great except it’s not (2021) eng.aurelienpierre.com - 375 comments 262 points
  7. Prompt engineering platform.openai.com - 167 comments 248 points
  8. Delta Dental says data breach exposed info of 7M people www.bleepingcomputer.com - 143 comments 231 points
  9. Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase supabase.com - 71 comments 204 points
  10. Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection promptarmor.substack.com - 74 comments 198 points
  11. Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day read.engineerscodex.com - 87 comments 195 points
  12. An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (2012) betterexplained.com - 67 comments 192 points
  13. McDonald’s ice cream machine hackers say they found ‘smoking gun’ www.wired.com - 183 comments 189 points
  14. Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI? news.ycombinator.com - 45 comments 187 points
  15. Fastmail Employees Form a Union union.place - 247 comments 183 points
  16. What happens in the brain while daydreaming? hms.harvard.edu - 131 comments 177 points
  17. Let it snow in your terminal github.com - 62 comments 173 points
  18. Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth mitxela.com - 16 comments 164 points
  19. Do large language models need all those layers? www.amazon.science - 76 comments 162 points
  20. Scheme in Scheme on WASM in the browser spritely.institute - 36 comments 162 points
  21. Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge godotengine.org - 49 comments 144 points
  22. WWII code breaker Mary Ratcliffe has died www.dailymail.co.uk - 23 comments 144 points
  23. September 11th That You Have Never Seen medium.com - 74 comments 131 points
  24. Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft’s cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned www.theregister.com - 1 comments 130 points
  25. Double-mirror illusion journalofillusion.net - 41 comments 108 points
  26. Threestudio – Framework for 3D content generation github.com - 16 comments 103 points
  27. EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters www.politico.eu - 33 comments 102 points
  28. Cognitive distortions that undermine clear thinking www.leadingsapiens.com - 45 comments 98 points
  29. Advancements in machine learning for machine learning blog.research.google - 20 comments 95 points
  30. The emergence of full-body Gaussian Splat deepfake humans blog.metaphysic.ai - 57 comments 93 points