Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-03-14

  1. A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments deepmind.google - 249 comments 440 points
  2. JIT WireGuard fly.io - 127 comments 438 points
  3. House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app www.nytimes.com - 952 comments 436 points
  4. How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s kottke.org - 94 comments 361 points
  5. Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix github.com - 157 comments 330 points
  6. Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died www.bbc.com - 192 comments 300 points
  7. IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states arstechnica.com - 107 comments 255 points
  8. Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files marker.pages.dev - 138 comments 247 points
  9. A world from a sheet of paper - 2023 - video www.youtube.com - 7 comments 227 points
  10. Insult Passphrase Generator cheswick.com - 135 comments 225 points
  11. LaVague: Open-source Large Action Model to automate Selenium browsing github.com - 63 comments 216 points
  12. Spreadsheets are all you need.ai spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai - 21 comments 184 points
  13. Care johan.hal.se - 48 comments 176 points
  14. Figure 01 robot demos its OpenAI integration twitter.com - 101 comments 173 points
  15. Giant sequoias are a rapidly growing feature of the UK landscape phys.org - 115 comments 166 points
  16. Mass timber is great, but it will not solve the housing shortage www.construction-physics.com - 669 comments 160 points
  17. IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible research.ibm.com - 39 comments 158 points
  18. Giant ‘sand battery’ holds a week’s heat for a whole town newatlas.com - 83 comments 153 points
  19. EFF to Ninth Circuit: No Software Exception to Traditional Copyright Limits www.eff.org - 16 comments 148 points
  20. Silicon Valley is pricing academics out of AI research www.washingtonpost.com - 165 comments 143 points
  21. Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who act.eff.org - 179 comments 140 points
  22. Prostate cancer includes two different evotypes www.ox.ac.uk - 74 comments 140 points
  23. BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar eieio.games - 11 comments 135 points
  24. Freenginx: Core Nginx Developer Announces Fork of Popular Web Server www.infoq.com - 84 comments 134 points
  25. Boeing’s 737 MAX Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers - 2019 www.industryweek.com - 57 comments 122 points
  26. Auto Makers Are Selling Data on Your Driving Habits to Your Insurer www.techdirt.com - 19 comments 122 points
  27. Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired www.wired.com - 162 comments 118 points
  28. Show HN: Query Your Sheets with SheetSQL sheetsql.io - 63 comments 110 points
  29. 4T transistors, one giant chip - Cerebras WSE-3 - video www.youtube.com - 82 comments 107 points
  30. Nanos – A Unikernel nanos.org - 37 comments 106 points