Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-02-16

  1. Sora: Creating video from text openai.com - 1571 comments 2519 points
  2. Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 blog.google - 495 comments 1023 points
  3. OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed tsdr.uspto.gov - 250 comments 572 points
  4. Apple confirms it’s breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose techcrunch.com - 429 comments 548 points
  5. Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps observablehq.com - 106 comments 495 points
  6. Uv: Python packaging in Rust astral.sh - 157 comments 484 points
  7. Every default macOS wallpaper 512pixels.net - 134 comments 414 points
  8. Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple arstechnica.com - 137 comments 353 points
  9. Goodbye Auth0 www.joshcanhelp.com - 253 comments 260 points
  10. Feds want to ban the Flipper Zero – Experts say it’s a scapegoat www.vice.com - 229 comments 244 points
  11. Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification opensource.googleblog.com - 63 comments 235 points
  12. Sam Altman owns OpenAI’s venture capital fund www.axios.com - 73 comments 233 points
  13. Ask HN: Nitter officially declared “over” today – alternatives? news.ycombinator.com - 270 comments 232 points
  14. Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat www.androidcentral.com - 139 comments 230 points
  15. Three virtues of a great programmer thethreevirtues.com - 95 comments 224 points
  16. Building an LLM from Scratch: Automatic Differentiation - 2023 bclarkson-code.github.io - 11 comments 207 points
  17. Happy Birthday Lemmings scottishgames.net - 54 comments 200 points
  18. Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see www.businessinsider.com - 74 comments 199 points
  19. PWAs wont replace native iOS apps app.campsite.co - 221 comments 172 points
  20. British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages www.reuters.com - 108 comments 168 points
  21. How deceptive design is used to compromise your privacy and how to fight back consciousdigital.org - 50 comments 163 points
  22. The existence of a new kind of magnet has been confirmed www.newscientist.com - 52 comments 161 points
  23. Video generation models as world simulators openai.com - 72 comments 154 points
  24. Gemini 1.5 Pro twitter.com - 2 comments 152 points
  25. Unreal Engine 5 ported to WebGPU twitter.com - 42 comments 133 points
  26. Managing mutable data in Elixir with Rust www.lambdafunctions.com - 50 comments 127 points
  27. GitHub now officially supports polar.sh as a funding platform twitter.com - 38 comments 126 points
  28. Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals www.theguardian.com - 45 comments 117 points
  29. Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271 - 2020 scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com - 19 comments 112 points
  30. Show HN: Galactic Compass – an app that points to the galactic center interconnected.org - 31 comments 109 points