Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-02-05

  1. Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software - 2019 www.geoffreylitt.com - 236 comments 487 points
  2. Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? ux.stackexchange.com - 280 comments 429 points
  3. Write code for the web mrmr.io - 335 comments 422 points
  4. Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO edition.cnn.com - 259 comments 366 points
  5. How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days aphyr.com - 231 comments 333 points
  6. Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life - 2022 philosophygeek.medium.com - 212 comments 292 points
  7. Beyond self-attention: How a small language model predicts the next token shyam.blog - 57 comments 287 points
  8. Plastic bag bans work www.zmescience.com - 523 comments 242 points
  9. Caesars abruptly cancels contract with DEF CON forum.defcon.org - 116 comments 233 points
  10. Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine stract.com - 55 comments 217 points
  11. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly torrentfreak.com - 376 comments 196 points
  12. Rolling Airframe Missile www.navalgazing.net - 96 comments 172 points
  13. Rye: A Vision Continued lucumr.pocoo.org - 39 comments 158 points
  14. New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros www.bleepingcomputer.com - 73 comments 147 points
  15. How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger - 2019 www.npr.org - 129 comments 125 points
  16. A reasonable configuration language ruudvanasseldonk.com - 83 comments 122 points
  17. ProofWiki: Online compendium of mathematical proofs proofwiki.org - 26 comments 118 points
  18. How do transformers work? nintyzeros.substack.com - 36 comments 116 points
  19. Sapling: Experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text github.com - 20 comments 115 points
  20. You are what you love gspanos.tech - 121 comments 113 points
  21. Apple fixes zero-day bug in Apple Vision Pro that ‘may have been exploited’ techcrunch.com - 67 comments 106 points
  22. How the codpiece flopped www.bbc.com - 30 comments 100 points
  23. Acme Klein Bottle www.kleinbottle.com - 30 comments 99 points
  24. IPTV Anti-Piracy Threats May Increase Male Motivation to Pirate by 30% torrentfreak.com - 79 comments 97 points
  25. macOS Sonoma 14.4 removes critical functions from the fileproviderctl command forums.macrumors.com - 53 comments 93 points
  26. Dijkstra’s interview on Dutch TV - 2000 pncnmnp.github.io - 36 comments 92 points
  27. Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format www.theregister.com - 65 comments 84 points
  28. Solving the darknet riddle - 2022 sizeof.life - 14 comments 84 points
  29. Digitopia is ruining our lives deeshee.io - 43 comments 81 points
  30. How to Quit Your Smartphone www.nytimes.com - 99 comments 80 points