Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-01-19

  1. The quiet death of Ello’s big dreams waxy.org - 175 comments 367 points
  2. Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel ftp.mfek.org - 329 comments 351 points
  3. We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime gds.blog.gov.uk - 105 comments 296 points
  4. German developer guilty of ‘hacking’ for exposing hardcoded credentials in app infosec.exchange - 199 comments 282 points
  5. The case for single-stair multifamily www.thesisdriven.com - 419 comments 254 points
  6. Escaping surveillance capitalism, at scale ergaster.org - 196 comments 239 points
  7. My AI costs went from $100 to less than $1/day: Fine-tuning Mixtral with GPT4 twitter.com - 101 comments 235 points
  8. A million ways to die on the web wiki.archiveteam.org - 94 comments 223 points
  9. New cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy www.bbc.com - 117 comments 218 points
  10. WebGPU is now available on Android developer.chrome.com - 55 comments 216 points
  11. Flattr is closing down flattr.com - 210 comments 204 points
  12. AlphaFold Found Possible Psychedelics www.nature.com - 48 comments 203 points
  13. What happened to the US machine tool industry? www.construction-physics.com - 173 comments 196 points
  14. Queues don’t fix overload - 2014 ferd.ca - 146 comments 177 points
  15. Flying kites deliver container-sized power generation spectrum.ieee.org - 156 comments 174 points
  16. Study: Field Drug Tests Generate Nearly 30k Bogus Arrests a Year www.techdirt.com - 140 comments 171 points
  17. Dave Mills has died elists.isoc.org - 15 comments 170 points
  18. Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence www.theverge.com - 266 comments 169 points
  19. Identifying Rust’s collect:<Vec<_»- memory leak footgun blog.polybdenum.com - 97 comments 164 points
  20. Noisy brain may underlie some of autism’s sensory features www.thetransmitter.org - 103 comments 163 points
  21. Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser ziglang.org - 23 comments 154 points
  22. Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms www.theguardian.com - 104 comments 151 points
  23. I made a website to share rejection letters rejectedagain.lol - 115 comments 143 points
  24. Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice www.bleepingcomputer.com - 83 comments 136 points
  25. Relearning math as an adult gmays.com - 85 comments 134 points
  26. Examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News www.404media.co - 199 comments 133 points
  27. Researcher uncovers one of the biggest password dumps in recent history arstechnica.com - 2 comments 130 points
  28. IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points www.theregister.com - 115 comments 128 points
  29. EU NGI TALER will bring private and secure online payments to the Eurozone taler.net - 129 comments 127 points
  30. Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State www.greenpeace.org - 145 comments 125 points