Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-04-30

  1. Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail www.esa.int - 227 comments 831 points
  2. Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe theins.ru - 381 comments 614 points
  3. The Internet Archive’s last-ditch effort to save itself lunduke.locals.com - 325 comments 404 points
  4. Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation play.google.com - 73 comments 358 points
  5. 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs - 2019 www.mcmillen.dev - 88 comments 347 points
  6. GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS? rentry.co - 214 comments 346 points
  7. I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS codedbearder.com - 84 comments 330 points
  8. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data docs.fcc.gov - 172 comments 305 points
  9. GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview github.blog - 279 comments 264 points
  10. How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? uxdesign.cc - 111 comments 241 points
  11. SB-1047 will stifle open-source AI and decrease safety www.answer.ai - 186 comments 219 points
  12. Cheyenne Super Computer Auction gsaauctions.gov - 136 comments 205 points
  13. FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared www.fromjason.xyz - 90 comments 205 points
  14. What’s Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? - 2017 www.merriam-webster.com - 291 comments 202 points
  15. Memary: Open-Source Longterm Memory for Autonomous Agents github.com - 61 comments 191 points
  16. FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data arstechnica.com - 3 comments 184 points
  17. Why SQLite Uses Bytecode sqlite.org - 43 comments 183 points
  18. Show HN: 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js threlte.xyz - 33 comments 183 points
  19. Doctor at Cigna said bosses pressured her to review patients’ cases too quickly www.propublica.org - 145 comments 161 points
  20. How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode medium.com - 73 comments 157 points
  21. Mini ponds are ’tiny universes’ of biodiversity for gardens and windowsills www.bbc.com - 49 comments 157 points
  22. Answering Legal Questions with LLMs hugodutka.com - 122 comments 154 points
  23. 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok www.honest-broker.com - 198 comments 142 points
  24. Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify github.com - 92 comments 130 points
  25. Project Habbakuk: Britain’s ice “bergship” aircraft carrier project - 2017 99percentinvisible.org - 40 comments 124 points
  26. Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line github.com - 31 comments 124 points
  27. A leadership crisis in the Nix community lwn.net - 219 comments 111 points
  28. You can’t just assume UTF-8 csvbase.com - 285 comments 109 points
  29. Marc Andreessen Is a Maniac gizmodo.com - 64 comments 106 points
  30. Ask HN: What’s the best charting library for customer-facing dashboards? news.ycombinator.com - 53 comments 102 points