Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-02-29

  1. The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing arxiv.org - 355 comments 735 points
  2. Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth - video www.youtube.com - 258 comments 452 points
  3. Why I use Firefox xn–ime-zza.eu - 275 comments 408 points
  4. Look, ma, no matrices enkimute.github.io - 67 comments 373 points
  5. ‘Mathematically perfect’ star system being investigated for potential alien tech www.space.com - 291 comments 357 points
  6. HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD www.phoronix.com - 164 comments 288 points
  7. SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python www.sympy.org - 121 comments 243 points
  8. Pingora: build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems github.com - 38 comments 216 points
  9. Intel puts 1nm process - 10A on the roadmap for 2027 www.tomshardware.com - 204 comments 205 points
  10. How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets www.wired.com - 95 comments 205 points
  11. MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers github.com - 46 comments 200 points
  12. Pql, a pipelined query language that compiles to SQL pql.dev - 103 comments 189 points
  13. Man in remission from blood cancer and HIV after remarkable treatment www.theguardian.com - 50 comments 184 points
  14. Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust lore.kernel.org - 76 comments 181 points
  15. YouTube video embedding harm reduction dustri.org - 43 comments 170 points
  16. VATSIM: The International Online Aviation Network vatsim.net - 53 comments 155 points
  17. Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes www.ryanestrada.com - 77 comments 154 points
  18. The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February brazil.postsen.com - 52 comments 147 points
  19. Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-install static site hosting service for hackers pgs.sh - 40 comments 144 points
  20. How video games use lookup tables blog.frost.kiwi - 27 comments 143 points
  21. Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution blog.opencollective.com - 36 comments 133 points
  22. Europe probes Microsoft’s €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral www.theregister.com - 126 comments 123 points
  23. X becoming a ‘ghost town’ of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet www.abc.net.au - 113 comments 116 points
  24. The Tech Industry Doesn’t Understand Consent – Opt-Out Is Not Consent soatok.blog - 60 comments 115 points
  25. European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies wcd.copernicus.org - 103 comments 113 points
  26. Man convicted for trying to help undercover game wardens recover deer with drone www.outdoorlife.com - 277 comments 112 points
  27. Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes www.semafor.com - 151 comments 112 points
  28. TrenchBroom: A cross platform level editor for Quake-engine based games trenchbroom.github.io - 23 comments 112 points
  29. EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 journals.plos.org - 119 comments 106 points
  30. KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released kde.org - 28 comments 101 points