Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-02-25

  1. Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution effectiviology.com - 738 comments 1114 points
  2. Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds - 2023 openrss.org - 289 comments 809 points
  3. Power Metal: is it really about dragons? - 2018 notes.atomutek.org - 149 comments 280 points
  4. Quality is a hard sell in big tech www.pcloadletter.dev - 146 comments 166 points
  5. The Earth is getting greener www.vox.com - 151 comments 165 points
  6. Architecture.md - 2021 matklad.github.io - 19 comments 162 points
  7. Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text? minimaxir.com - 111 comments 159 points
  8. V Language Review - 2023 n-skvortsov-1997.github.io - 81 comments 157 points
  9. Some OpenBSD features that aren’t widely known dataswamp.org - 34 comments 157 points
  10. How to think about software quality - 2022 www.evalapply.org - 59 comments 142 points
  11. Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened - 2022 liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org - 229 comments 141 points
  12. A modest update to Qubes OS lwn.net - 22 comments 141 points
  13. Ledger lock.cmpxchg8b.com - 75 comments 133 points
  14. Coding the anime “woosh” screen on Amiga dansalva.to - 21 comments 130 points
  15. Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program maplibre.org - 15 comments 128 points
  16. How Does Bluesky Work? steveklabnik.com - 38 comments 126 points
  17. We were not accepted into Google Summer of Code. So, we started our own qdrant.tech - 39 comments 125 points
  18. U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds www.reuters.com - 138 comments 122 points
  19. Every single new Google product twitter.com - 42 comments 121 points
  20. Understanding, using, and finetuning Gemma lightning.ai - 46 comments 113 points
  21. Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning www.aftvnews.com - 56 comments 108 points
  22. Cities stripping out concrete for earth and plants www.bbc.com - 25 comments 107 points
  23. Notes from an Interviewer devwithahammer.wordpress.com - 180 comments 106 points
  24. Geospatial Nix – create, use and deploy today geospatial-nix.today - 19 comments 100 points
  25. Quantifying the diva-ness of national anthem performances pudding.cool - 87 comments 98 points
  26. Mass Retraction of unethical Chinese Forensic Genetics Papers www.science.org - 47 comments 97 points
  27. Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool? news.ycombinator.com - 39 comments 93 points
  28. David Hahn, the ‘radioactive boy scout’ who tried to build a nuclear reactor - 2022 allthatsinteresting.com - 49 comments 91 points
  29. GenAI and erroneous medical references hai.stanford.edu - 73 comments 89 points
  30. Almost an open-source boot chain for Rockchip’s RK3588 www.collabora.com - 10 comments 89 points