Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-01-11

  1. A battery has replaced Hawaii’s last coal plant www.canarymedia.com - 295 comments 443 points
  2. Signs that it’s time to leave a company adrianco.medium.com - 276 comments 442 points
  3. Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function calls? biology.stackexchange.com - 188 comments 430 points
  4. Drawing.garden drawing.garden - 75 comments 302 points
  5. Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC cointelegraph.com - 487 comments 291 points
  6. Netflix never used its $1M algorithm - 2012 thenextweb.com - 264 comments 252 points
  7. Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content theintercept.com - 169 comments 206 points
  8. Conditional Git Configuration blog.scottlowe.org - 39 comments 199 points
  9. Free MIT Course: Performance Engineering of Software Systems ocw.mit.edu - 21 comments 198 points
  10. Shoelace: A library of web components shoelace.style - 56 comments 184 points
  11. Super Mario 64 on the Web probablykam.github.io - 89 comments 183 points
  12. FreeTaxUSA www.freetaxusa.com - 90 comments 182 points
  13. Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost Capital catalyst-journal.com - 234 comments 175 points
  14. Vcc – The Vulkan Clang Compiler shady-gang.github.io - 63 comments 163 points
  15. British Post Office Scandal en.wikipedia.org - 146 comments 162 points
  16. Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant – Semafor www.semafor.com - 127 comments 157 points
  17. The GPT Store openai.com - 95 comments 135 points
  18. NASA’s plan to “swarm” Proxima Centauri with tiny probes www.sciencealert.com - 98 comments 126 points
  19. Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse www.vice.com - 104 comments 116 points
  20. How to defend your website with ZIP bombs - 2017 blog.haschek.at - 73 comments 116 points
  21. The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy? physiqonomics.com - 153 comments 112 points
  22. Bottled water has ‘up to 100 times’ more bits of plastic than previously feared www.theregister.com - 96 comments 112 points
  23. AWS cancels serverless Postgres service that scales to zero www.datanami.com - 89 comments 112 points
  24. Google Lays Off Hundreds in Hardware, Voice Assistant Teams www.bloomberg.com - 32 comments 106 points
  25. Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group www.theparisreview.org - 37 comments 102 points
  26. How to get coworkers to stop giving me ChatGPT-generated suggestions? workplace.stackexchange.com - 83 comments 97 points
  27. Helio: Libre Music Composition Software helio.fm - 17 comments 95 points
  28. Twitch lays off 500 staff venturebeat.com - 20 comments 86 points
  29. The memory remains: Permanent memory with systemd and a Rust allocator darkcoding.net - 39 comments 80 points
  30. Coming home from the South Pole brr.fyi - 12 comments 73 points