Hacker News top 30 - 2024-01-18
- Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture? - 2017 english.stackexchange.com - 172 comments 719 points
- Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases read.engineerscodex.com - 176 comments 455 points
- Losing my son www.fortressofdoors.com - 64 comments 437 points
- AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry deepmind.google - 141 comments 429 points
- Hacking into an insurance company by exploiting their premium calculator eaton-works.com - 87 comments 408 points
- Willow Protocol willowprotocol.org - 99 comments 399 points
- John Lasseter drew the BSD daemon logo www.jacobelder.com - 88 comments 395 points
- FAQ on Leaving Google social.clawhammer.net - 232 comments 370 points
- Apple’s bad faith 27% tax on web purchases twitter.com - 276 comments 355 points
- Why I Like Obsidian www.ddanieltan.com - 323 comments 263 points
- The Hacker News Top books of 2023 hnreads.com - 68 comments 229 points
- The Rust project has a burnout problem jyn.dev - 224 comments 222 points
- Show HN: Htmldocs – Typeset and generate pdfs with HTML/CSS htmldocs.com - 83 comments 205 points
- If you can’t reproduce the model then it’s not open-source twitter.com - 90 comments 200 points
- Doom Released Under GPLv2 github.com - 37 comments 197 points
- We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life - 2023 www.stockholmresilience.org - 165 comments 188 points
- Cancer Alley en.wikipedia.org - 79 comments 172 points
- Notion Calendar www.notion.so - 155 comments 169 points
- K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney github.com - 62 comments 169 points
- PixieFail: Nine Vulnerabilities UEFI Implementations blog.quarkslab.com - 88 comments 148 points
- Remote work doesn’t seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds www.bloomberg.com - 53 comments 148 points
- Show HN: Shadeup – A language that makes WebGPU easier shadeup.dev - 29 comments 144 points
- OpenAI is working with the US military now www.bloomberg.com - 152 comments 141 points
- Computer Engineering for Babies - 2021 computerengineeringforbabies.com - 48 comments 136 points
- Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find arstechnica.com - 47 comments 136 points
- Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years www.cnet.com - 76 comments 133 points
- Bad stuff going down at the American Sociological Association statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu - 107 comments 124 points
- Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies www.consumerreports.org - 55 comments 122 points
- Coming to Grips with Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement daringfireball.net - 119 comments 114 points
- Why don’t schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals? jakeseliger.com - 148 comments 105 points
January 18, 2024 ∙