Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-04-06

  1. M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake earthquake.usgs.gov - 345 comments 439 points
  2. Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on? news.ycombinator.com - 537 comments 421 points
  3. So you wanna de-bog yourself www.experimental-history.com - 77 comments 318 points
  4. The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics www.abortretry.fail - 288 comments 268 points
  5. Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse www.theguardian.com - 239 comments 264 points
  6. An IRC client in your motherboard axleos.com - 62 comments 258 points
  7. Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser - Jellyfin/Plex alternative github.com - 139 comments 188 points
  8. Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user blog.cloudflare.com - 74 comments 187 points
  9. Fortran on WebAssembly gws.phd - 46 comments 181 points
  10. Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, EU Music App Links www.macrumors.com - 120 comments 179 points
  11. A Lego model of financial capitalism www.asomo.co - 78 comments 172 points
  12. SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine github.com - 40 comments 153 points
  13. Big Tech’s underground race to buy AI training data www.reuters.com - 135 comments 146 points
  14. AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse arxiv.org - 74 comments 144 points
  15. World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator worldsim.nousresearch.com - 54 comments 140 points
  16. Almost no one cares if your site is not on social media notes.ghed.in - 121 comments 127 points
  17. Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations - video www.youtube.com - 106 comments 119 points
  18. Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient - 2022 www.euronews.com - 56 comments 119 points
  19. Proton Mail says Outlook for Windows is Microsoft’s new data collection service www.ghacks.net - 75 comments 115 points
  20. Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen? www.nytimes.com - 281 comments 106 points
  21. Deep sea mining could be worse for the climate than land ores planet-tracker.org - 51 comments 101 points
  22. For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths hazlitt.net - 13 comments 101 points
  23. Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an OpenBSD developer marc.info - 48 comments 99 points
  24. C++ Insights – See your source code with the eyes of a compiler github.com - 13 comments 83 points
  25. Apple cuts 600 jobs after dropping self-driving car plans www.bbc.com - 110 comments 82 points
  26. GitHub is down www.githubstatus.com - 74 comments 73 points
  27. Data brokers are gearing up to fight privacy bills www.theverge.com - 14 comments 72 points
  28. BeeTrove – OpenAI GPTs Open-Source Dataset beetrove.com - 12 comments 70 points
  29. Jedi Knight - Plus, Notes on an Expanded Universe www.filfre.net - 52 comments 69 points
  30. RubyGems is not vulnerable to the xz/liblzma backdoor blog.rubygems.org - 28 comments 69 points