Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-05-11

  1. Jim Simons has died www.simonsfoundation.org - 275 comments 931 points
  2. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora www.foto-webcam.eu - 189 comments 750 points
  3. Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years news.ycombinator.com - 175 comments 685 points
  4. Popover API developer.mozilla.org - 149 comments 366 points
  5. Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs www.spaceweatherlive.com - 267 comments 354 points
  6. Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager github.com - 153 comments 308 points
  7. KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features fosstodon.org - 246 comments 245 points
  8. Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time www.bbc.com - 92 comments 203 points
  9. Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real or complex? mathoverflow.net - 96 comments 183 points
  10. Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell elv.sh - 108 comments 164 points
  11. OpenBSD Desktop x61.ar - 104 comments 136 points
  12. I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam Run by Fake Hosts on Airbnb - 2019 www.vice.com - 107 comments 109 points
  13. Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates - 2021 www.vox.com - 156 comments 105 points
  14. Spider-Man - Neversoft Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024 krystalgamer.github.io - 27 comments 101 points
  15. An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std:string devblogs.microsoft.com - 19 comments 99 points
  16. Tine Text Editor github.com - 13 comments 96 points
  17. One Minute Park oneminutepark.tv - 10 comments 95 points
  18. Apple Joins the SeL4 Foundation sel4.systems - 27 comments 93 points
  19. California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices www.npr.org - 185 comments 90 points
  20. Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ www.tomshardware.com - 111 comments 87 points
  21. Apple finalizing deal with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT features to iOS 18 9to5mac.com - 45 comments 86 points
  22. Unbearable hours, threats of being fired: The abuse of migrant interns in Japan observers.france24.com - 60 comments 82 points
  23. SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005 www.swpc.noaa.gov - 29 comments 81 points
  24. Is AI lying to me? Scientists warn of growing capacity for deception www.theguardian.com - 97 comments 80 points
  25. Trip C++Now 2024 – think-cell www.think-cell.com - 35 comments 69 points
  26. The API database architecture – Stop writing HTTP-GET endpoints www.fabianzeindl.com - 107 comments 68 points
  27. ‘Vampire drone’ can leech electricity from power lines to live forever bgr.com - 31 comments 68 points
  28. Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don’t want their advice used to train AI www.theregister.com - 83 comments 63 points
  29. DKIM, SPF, SpamAssassin Email Validator dkimvalidator.com - 17 comments 61 points
  30. Richest Americans Now Pay Less Tax Than Working Class in Historical First www.newsweek.com - 80 comments 58 points