Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2023-12-30

  1. In 2024, please switch to Firefox roytanck.com - 756 comments 1527 points
  2. Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021) sprocketfox.io - 298 comments 459 points
  3. Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO? news.ycombinator.com - 126 comments 452 points
  4. Gentoo goes Binary www.gentoo.org - 246 comments 313 points
  5. Blot turns a folder into a website blot.im - 84 comments 309 points
  6. Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders? news.ycombinator.com - 144 comments 302 points
  7. Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access www.techdirt.com - 204 comments 301 points
  8. Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different? eclecticlight.co - 223 comments 280 points
  9. “No inventions; no innovations” A History of US Steel www.construction-physics.com - 182 comments 219 points
  10. Korea to welcome ‘digital nomads’ with new visa starting Jan. 1 koreajoongangdaily.joins.com - 225 comments 207 points
  11. Copyright is not a moral right, it’s a monetization strategy twitter.com - 328 comments 203 points
  12. The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013) freedom-to-tinker.com - 83 comments 192 points
  13. How the append-only btree works (2010) www.bzero.se - 79 comments 189 points
  14. UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector www.nationalgrid.com - 93 comments 147 points
  15. Everyone’s getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting medium.com - 179 comments 140 points
  16. Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017) kiwihellenist.blogspot.com - 136 comments 134 points
  17. Koka: Strongly typed functional-style language with effect types and handlers koka-lang.github.io - 33 comments 124 points
  18. 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free arstechnica.com - 183 comments 123 points
  19. 2023 was the year that GPUs stood still arstechnica.com - 115 comments 119 points
  20. Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers arstechnica.com - 310 comments 118 points
  21. Toyota-owned automaker tampered with safety tests for 30 years www.cnn.com - 62 comments 114 points
  22. Open source liability is coming developersalliance.org - 202 comments 101 points
  23. Don’t Say Velcro (2017) www.velcro.com - 162 comments 96 points
  24. Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020) observablehq.com - 16 comments 96 points
  25. Social media companies made $11B in US ad revenue from minors, study finds apnews.com - 79 comments 94 points
  26. Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant www.getinboxzero.com - 57 comments 93 points
  27. Derinkuyu: Mysterious underground city in Turkey found in man’s basement bigthink.com - 21 comments 93 points
  28. Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol en.wikipedia.org - 27 comments 88 points
  29. Parsing an Undocumented File Format blog.vivekpanyam.com - 24 comments 88 points
  30. I’m a world champion pea thrower www.theguardian.com - 28 comments 84 points