Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-01-26

  1. Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union www.apple.com - 1820 comments 1449 points
  2. Only 90s Web Developers Remember This - 2014 zachholman.com - 386 comments 512 points
  3. I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions twitter.com - 162 comments 493 points
  4. Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again www.nasa.gov - 156 comments 388 points
  5. Brains are not required to think or solve problems – simple cells can do it www.scientificamerican.com - 347 comments 378 points
  6. Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative wedistribute.org - 168 comments 329 points
  7. Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees www.theverge.com - 289 comments 314 points
  8. CVE-2023-40547 – avoid incorrectly trusting HTTP headers github.com - 87 comments 211 points
  9. New embedding models and API updates openai.com - 73 comments 201 points
  10. Japan’s precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down phys.org - 135 comments 197 points
  11. We build X.509 chains so you don’t have to blog.trailofbits.com - 79 comments 196 points
  12. HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated <14 www.statnews.com - 117 comments 194 points
  13. Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine/Proton performance improvements www.gamingonlinux.com - 57 comments 194 points
  14. Impacts of lid closure during toilet flushing www.ajicjournal.org - 132 comments 174 points
  15. Proposed UN cybercrime treaty has evolved into an expansive surveillance tool www.eff.org - 53 comments 165 points
  16. CRDTs Turned Inside Out interjectedfuture.com - 25 comments 154 points
  17. Framing Frames: Bypassing wi-fi encryption by manipulating transmit queues www.usenix.org - 51 comments 140 points
  18. Hugging Face and Google partner for AI collaboration huggingface.co - 55 comments 138 points
  19. Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling - 2019 www.coldbike.com - 139 comments 135 points
  20. The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects www.theuncomfortable.com - 53 comments 133 points
  21. An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM motherduck.com - 29 comments 124 points
  22. Sports Illustrated implosion shows the ugly, ongoing collapse of U.S. journalism www.techdirt.com - 140 comments 120 points
  23. Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie www.windytan.com - 18 comments 118 points
  24. Quicksort with Jenkins for fun and no profit susam.net - 37 comments 117 points
  25. A 13th-century Arabic cookbook reveals the culinary life of al-Andalus www.atlasobscura.com - 18 comments 110 points
  26. Improbable Island, one of the largest and longest-running online text adventures www.improbableisland.com - 38 comments 109 points
  27. How AI is changing gymnastics judging www.technologyreview.com - 141 comments 107 points
  28. Air pollution over Alberta oil sands up to 6,300% higher than reported www.vancouverisawesome.com - 13 comments 105 points
  29. Restoration of an IBM 701C Butterfly-keyboard laptop blog.jgc.org - 35 comments 104 points
  30. Show HN: Lumos, a local LLM Chrome extension github.com - 28 comments 102 points