Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-05-06

  1. MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions whyevolutionistrue.com - 509 comments 719 points
  2. Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices www.theguardian.com - 590 comments 485 points
  3. Social engineering takeovers of open source projects openssf.org - 181 comments 444 points
  4. Bollards: Why and What josh.works - 234 comments 340 points
  5. Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI - 2019 twitter.com - 111 comments 248 points
  6. Take a look at Traefik, even if you don’t use containers j6b72.de - 153 comments 241 points
  7. Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries www.thegamer.com - 233 comments 235 points
  8. Machine Unlearning in 2024 ai.stanford.edu - 72 comments 221 points
  9. “Meta spent almost as much as the Manhattan Project on GPUs in today’s dollars” twitter.com - 189 comments 215 points
  10. First ’tooth regrowth medicine’ to be tested in Japan from Sept. 2024 mainichi.jp - 83 comments 215 points
  11. Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana ounapuu.ee - 117 comments 213 points
  12. Deep Reinforcement Learning: Zero to Hero github.com - 25 comments 201 points
  13. Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better - 2022 eugeneyan.com - 108 comments 191 points
  14. Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua github.com - 116 comments 185 points
  15. Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot - 2023 pomax.github.io - 26 comments 166 points
  16. A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom thechipletter.substack.com - 70 comments 156 points
  17. Debian 64-bit-time transition wiki.debian.org - 65 comments 143 points
  18. North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs www.bbc.co.uk - 160 comments 142 points
  19. ESP32-S3 has a few SIMD instructions bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com - 33 comments 138 points
  20. Small Things rishad.substack.com - 65 comments 129 points
  21. Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server neighbor-share.vercel.app - 88 comments 128 points
  22. Rusty.hpp: A Borrow Checker and Memory Ownership System for C++20 github.com - 128 comments 118 points
  23. They Live en.wikipedia.org - 79 comments 109 points
  24. Designing furniture using the CSS grid - 2023 alnvdl.github.io - 21 comments 103 points
  25. Flags Are Not Languages www.flagsarenotlanguages.com - 183 comments 100 points
  26. Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens arxiv.org - 31 comments 98 points
  27. Helldivers 2 PSN account linking update will not be moving forward twitter.com - 75 comments 96 points
  28. US prepares to exempt AUKUS nations from ITAR www.naval-technology.com - 110 comments 89 points
  29. The Sam Altman Playbook: Fear, the Denial of Uncertainties, and Hype garymarcus.substack.com - 63 comments 86 points
  30. X.org on NetBSD – The State of Things blog.netbsd.org - 35 comments 83 points