Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-01-31

  1. Apple Vision Pro review www.wsj.com - 723 comments 484 points
  2. How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech 12challenges.substack.com - 183 comments 466 points
  3. I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals chadaustin.me - 124 comments 427 points
  4. Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners www.ubicloud.com - 95 comments 413 points
  5. Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons’ Data from Data Brokers www.techdirt.com - 200 comments 407 points
  6. Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines github.com - 120 comments 395 points
  7. Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not www.theverge.com - 312 comments 336 points
  8. Intel’s Humbling stratechery.com - 206 comments 279 points
  9. Why flying insects gather at artificial light www.nature.com - 98 comments 279 points
  10. CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management www.forbes.com - 306 comments 275 points
  11. .ai website registrations are a windfall for tiny Anguilla spectrum.ieee.org - 148 comments 226 points
  12. Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees danrodricks.com - 226 comments 197 points
  13. There’s So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets www.bloomberg.com - 149 comments 176 points
  14. Covid Test Data Breach: 1.3M Patient Records Exposed Online www.vpnmentor.com - 103 comments 167 points
  15. Crime rings trafficking sand www.scientificamerican.com - 93 comments 146 points
  16. Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2B www.dw.com - 115 comments 138 points
  17. Google search drops cache link from search results www.seroundtable.com - 60 comments 138 points
  18. Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands apnews.com - 119 comments 132 points
  19. The C bounded model checker: criminally underused www.philipzucker.com - 66 comments 132 points
  20. A mistakenly published password exposed Mercedes-Benz source code techcrunch.com - 101 comments 129 points
  21. What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com - 162 comments 121 points
  22. Google Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Results - pdf abc.xyz - 163 comments 118 points
  23. The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack - 2019 akrl.sdf.org - 39 comments 118 points
  24. Finding the Air Cannon www.twobraids.com - 42 comments 116 points
  25. Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why www.npr.org - 121 comments 113 points
  26. The business of check cashing www.bitsaboutmoney.com - 136 comments 112 points
  27. Launch HN: Univerbal - YC W23 – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor news.ycombinator.com - 99 comments 112 points
  28. Show HN: Wren – simple yet extensible task management with CLI, Telegram, HTTP github.com - 38 comments 110 points
  29. Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid boilerplate starters github.com - 32 comments 109 points
  30. Build a simple LSM-Tree storage engine in a week skyzh.github.io - 4 comments 109 points