Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-03-30

  1. Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise www.openwall.com - 1093 comments 3114 points
  2. Simon Riggs has died m6n.io - 217 comments 817 points
  3. OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning research.myshell.ai - 228 comments 408 points
  4. Group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create ‘European Yellowstone’ english.elpais.com - 211 comments 261 points
  5. Ross Anderson has died alecmuffett.com - 24 comments 249 points
  6. When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first hbr.org - 194 comments 235 points
  7. Santa Barbara’s collective memory, sold for kindling www.independent.com - 39 comments 167 points
  8. Apache Guacamole: a clientless remote desktop gateway guacamole.apache.org - 36 comments 164 points
  9. Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across 60-mile stretch of rivers www.nytimes.com - 18 comments 156 points
  10. Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor boehs.org - 24 comments 136 points
  11. Can Demis Hassabis save Google? www.bigtechnology.com - 114 comments 124 points
  12. Overlay networks based on WebRTC github.com - 33 comments 121 points
  13. A muon collider could revolutionize particle physics, if it can be built www.science.org - 76 comments 114 points
  14. FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor gist.github.com - 23 comments 110 points
  15. School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere www.nytimes.com - 365 comments 101 points
  16. Managing Linux Servers with Cockpit lwn.net - 33 comments 101 points
  17. Banner blindness en.wikipedia.org - 86 comments 97 points
  18. A Chronicle reporter went undercover in high school www.sfchronicle.com - 77 comments 95 points
  19. Two hundred reasons to not use Azure mastodon.social - 53 comments 95 points
  20. Qwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters qwenlm.github.io - 7 comments 93 points
  21. Launch HN: Lumona - YC W24 – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews news.ycombinator.com - 86 comments 92 points
  22. Fiber-optic data transfer speeds hit a rapid 301 Tbps www.livescience.com - 43 comments 92 points
  23. Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab www.computerworld.com - 91 comments 91 points
  24. Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say arstechnica.com - 16 comments 91 points
  25. Running a Raspberry Pi with a read-only root filesystem www.dzombak.com - 36 comments 90 points
  26. Bartók’s Monster – Stalking the dead composer through Transylvania - 2013 harpers.org - 12 comments 88 points
  27. James Webb Telescope Confirms That the Universe Is Expanding at Different Speeds www.tomorrowsworldtoday.com - 93 comments 83 points
  28. Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity phys.org - 51 comments 75 points
  29. Can We Get Kids Off Smartphones? www.newyorker.com - 108 comments 71 points
  30. Germany drafts law that will make E2EE mandatory for messengers and cloud tuta.com - 18 comments 66 points