Hacker News top 30 - 2023-12-18
- The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940) www.charliechaplin.com - 293 comments 454 points
- 3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn’t tell the public minnesotareformer.com - 217 comments 411 points
- 0% of the phrases of the original Wikipedia “Ship of Theseus” article remain twitter.com - 84 comments 368 points
- BrainGPT turns thoughts into text www.iflscience.com - 169 comments 286 points
- Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber for Negative Review onemileatatime.com - 106 comments 204 points
- Mickey, Disney, and the public domain: A 95-year love triangle web.law.duke.edu - 100 comments 201 points
- AMD’s CDNA 3 Compute Architecture chipsandcheese.com - 71 comments 192 points
- US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over www.nature.com - 150 comments 173 points
- Promptbase: All things prompt engineering github.com - 35 comments 173 points
- “Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs jacobbartlett.substack.com - 132 comments 154 points
- Evaluating new software forges notgull.net - 123 comments 141 points
- How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time www.nytimes.com - 246 comments 136 points
- The Apollo Syndrome www.teamtechnology.co.uk - 69 comments 136 points
- Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems github.com - 43 comments 134 points
- The origin of the law of torture: A cautionary tale daviddfriedman.substack.com - 138 comments 119 points
- AMD MI300X 30% higher performance than Nvidia H100, even with optimized stack www.tomshardware.com - 60 comments 115 points
- Show HN: Get any piece of Google Earth as a single normalized glTF 3D model github.com - 17 comments 112 points
- Pilots hide mental health problems so they don’t lose their licenses www.washingtonpost.com - 82 comments 109 points
- Misra C++:2023 forum.misra.org.uk - 87 comments 107 points
- Microsoft forced people to install their browser (2010) toastytech.com - 127 comments 101 points
- Ask HN: Terrified I wont find another job news.ycombinator.com - 78 comments 95 points
- So you want custom allocator support in your C library nullprogram.com - 51 comments 95 points
- Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe? news.ycombinator.com - 38 comments 92 points
- Goodreads asks users to help combat ‘review bombing’ www.npr.org - 139 comments 86 points
- Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says arstechnica.com - 28 comments 83 points
- Dynamic soaring en.wikipedia.org - 30 comments 79 points
- OpenAI employee: GPT-4.5 rumor was a hallucination twitter.com - 80 comments 74 points
- YouTube is trying to block Invidious github.com - 13 comments 71 points
- BC Supreme Court bars man from calling himself an ’engineer’ www.cbc.ca - 116 comments 70 points
- Pearl: A Production-Ready Reinforcement Learning Agent github.com - 8 comments 70 points
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