Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-04-07

  1. Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces zengm.com - 46 comments 289 points
  2. What I think about when I edit - 2019 evaparish.com - 119 comments 281 points
  3. Home insurers are dropping customers based on aerial images www.wsj.com - 521 comments 243 points
  4. Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools www.androidauthority.com - 204 comments 242 points
  5. The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper twitter.com - 128 comments 237 points
  6. NASA spacecraft films crazy vortex while flying through sun’s atmosphere mashable.com - 71 comments 191 points
  7. Loki: An open-source tool for fact verification github.com - 45 comments 189 points
  8. More Agents Is All You Need: LLMs performance scales with the number of agents arxiv.org - 101 comments 178 points
  9. Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom www.popsci.com - 229 comments 173 points
  10. PiVPN v4.6.0: The End github.com - 75 comments 163 points
  11. WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows github.com - 49 comments 163 points
  12. How we communicate 37signals.com - 94 comments 136 points
  13. Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2 www.neowin.net - 158 comments 132 points
  14. Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days mathspp.com - 32 comments 132 points
  15. Show HN: Online database diagram editor github.com - 24 comments 131 points
  16. A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS experimentalworks.net - 71 comments 128 points
  17. xkcd 2916: The Credible Machine xkcd.com - 8 comments 110 points
  18. Schedule-Free Learning – A New Way to Train github.com - 34 comments 107 points
  19. What is the most useful project you have worked on? news.ycombinator.com - 107 comments 103 points
  20. Xbox has a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility www.windowscentral.com - 52 comments 99 points
  21. Why AWS Supports Valkey aws.amazon.com - 102 comments 91 points
  22. Language models are Super Mario: Absorbing abilities from homologous models arxiv.org - 53 comments 91 points
  23. A canonical Hamiltonian formulation of the Navier–Stokes problem www.cambridge.org - 23 comments 84 points
  24. What to do when an airline website doesn’t accept your legal name www.preethamrn.com - 113 comments 83 points
  25. PID Controller Explainer - 2022 ben.bolte.cc - 35 comments 82 points
  26. Cybersecurity Is Broken crankysec.com - 74 comments 78 points
  27. A Theory of Composing Protocols - 2023 programming-journal.org - 13 comments 76 points
  28. Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors? www.frontiersin.org - 84 comments 74 points
  29. Ibiza locals living in cars as party island sees rents soar www.bbc.com - 76 comments 73 points
  30. Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding techcrunch.com - 16 comments 72 points