Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-02-04

  1. Apple releases Pkl – configuration as code language pkl-lang.org - 5 comments 420 points
  2. A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data - 2016 www.atlasobscura.com - 125 comments 369 points
  3. How Quora died slate.com - 346 comments 301 points
  4. How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn’t work? space.stackexchange.com - 151 comments 301 points
  5. JetBrains’ unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry www.theregister.com - 236 comments 289 points
  6. Goodbye non-KISS appliances willbush.dev - 434 comments 267 points
  7. Physical cash is dying–and you don’t need to be a conspiracist to worry www.prospectmagazine.co.uk - 454 comments 226 points
  8. A 1.55 R⊕ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715 academic.oup.com - 100 comments 202 points
  9. A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts bhupesh.me - 99 comments 186 points
  10. Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code www.theregister.com - 167 comments 184 points
  11. FOSDEM 2024 Live Streams fosdem.org - 20 comments 179 points
  12. The engineering behind Figma’s vector networks - 2019 alexharri.com - 24 comments 176 points
  13. The worst users come from referral programs, free trials, coupons andrewchen.com - 157 comments 163 points
  14. DIY MBA: My Reading List - 2019 chrisstoneman.medium.com - 76 comments 153 points
  15. Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird www.ifixit.com - 136 comments 147 points
  16. AT&T applies to end obligation to service landlines in California www.cbsnews.com - 207 comments 145 points
  17. Folk Computer folk.computer - 41 comments 143 points
  18. The underground world of hobby tunneling www.bloomberg.com - 88 comments 134 points
  19. Paris Vote Targets SUV Drivers with Parking Fees Set to Triple www.bloomberg.com - 103 comments 125 points
  20. VueJS turns 10 years old twitter.com - 86 comments 122 points
  21. Ofsted inspectors ‘make up evidence’ about a school’s performance when IT fails www.theguardian.com - 73 comments 122 points
  22. Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry www.washingtonpost.com - 102 comments 115 points
  23. Apple Vision Pro and ADHD dansalva.to - 115 comments 112 points
  24. TCC RISC-V Compiler Runs in the Web Browser - Thanks to Zig Compiler lupyuen.codeberg.page - 2 comments 112 points
  25. The decline of hardware knowledge in the era of cloud native compute www.magesguild.io - 107 comments 111 points
  26. Compiling Pattern Matching compiler.club - 17 comments 104 points
  27. Native Exchange Support is coming to Thunderbird linuxiac.com - 52 comments 103 points
  28. Show HN: Simple demo of a cold boot attack using a Raspberry Pi github.com - 27 comments 101 points
  29. Over the Edge – Microsoft’s Design Tactics Compromise Free Browser Choice - pdf research.mozilla.org - 2 comments 98 points
  30. Researchers taking on fraudulent science www.analystnews.org - 65 comments 96 points