Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-04-29

  1. A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp - 1949 www.lathes.co.uk - 98 comments 404 points
  2. Zilog Z80 CPU – Modern, free and open source silicon clone github.com - 61 comments 333 points
  3. TfL’s simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales www.ianvisits.co.uk - 221 comments 195 points
  4. Williams-Sonoma fined $3.18M for falsely labeling products ‘Made in USA’ www.scrippsnews.com - 84 comments 193 points
  5. Did we lose our way in making efficient software? rufatmammadli.medium.com - 341 comments 186 points
  6. LoRA+: Efficient Low Rank Adaptation of Large Models arxiv.org - 44 comments 173 points
  7. Zed Decoded: Rope and SumTree zed.dev - 32 comments 171 points
  8. The unstallable plane that stalled fearoflanding.com - 143 comments 155 points
  9. Flow Field Pathfinding www.redblobgames.com - 21 comments 154 points
  10. The Myth of the Second Chance ft.pressreader.com - 109 comments 153 points
  11. Mise: a polyglot tool version manager mise.jdx.dev - 32 comments 148 points
  12. Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands curingaddiction.substack.com - 172 comments 136 points
  13. Show HN: Dotenv, if it is a Unix utility github.com - 55 comments 136 points
  14. The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars www.vox.com - 111 comments 132 points
  15. Call-to-Action on SB 1047 – Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act www.affuture.org - 94 comments 131 points
  16. Is it okay to daisy chain a UPS? www.eaton.com - 142 comments 120 points
  17. Jimmy Carter UFO Incident en.wikipedia.org - 144 comments 119 points
  18. Personal computing paves the way for personal library science www.bramadams.dev - 9 comments 102 points
  19. Tell HN: I think there are major issues with Google –> Squarespace domains news.ycombinator.com - 79 comments 99 points
  20. Ollama v0.1.33 with Llama 3, Phi 3, and Qwen 110B github.com - 42 comments 95 points
  21. The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve - 2022 pluralistic.net - 12 comments 95 points
  22. Talking to memory: Inside the Intel 8088 processor’s bus interface state machine www.righto.com - 7 comments 89 points
  23. Reentry – An Orbital Simulator reentrygame.com - 15 comments 85 points
  24. The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper english.elpais.com - 16 comments 83 points
  25. Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules www.kff.org - 121 comments 79 points
  26. Google surpasses $2T market cap qz.com - 69 comments 77 points
  27. Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap github.com - 28 comments 76 points
  28. Microsoft must stop selling security as a premium offering www.directionsonmicrosoft.com - 44 comments 74 points
  29. Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres postgres.ai - 6 comments 64 points
  30. OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computers os-world.github.io - 30 comments 62 points