Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-05-17

  1. VCs aren’t your friends www.openvc.app - 352 comments 520 points
  2. A forged Apple employee badge cabel.com - 146 comments 430 points
  3. Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy docs.likejazz.com - 47 comments 402 points
  4. Slack AI Training with Customer Data slack.com - 199 comments 396 points
  5. 100 Exercises to Learn Rust rust-exercises.com - 49 comments 300 points
  6. Winamp has announced that it is “opening up” its source code about.winamp.com - 146 comments 289 points
  7. D3 in Depth www.d3indepth.com - 70 comments 282 points
  8. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. www.techdirt.com - 233 comments 269 points
  9. Egypt’s pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile www.nature.com - 324 comments 264 points
  10. Students invent quieter leaf blower hub.jhu.edu - 392 comments 262 points
  11. ChatGPT-4o vs. Math www.sabrina.dev - 147 comments 260 points
  12. What’s New in Neovim 0.10 gpanders.com - 110 comments 256 points
  13. F – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language www.fstar-lang.org - 80 comments 212 points
  14. I don’t want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google’s AI search aftermath.site - 193 comments 195 points
  15. Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg www.phoronix.com - 39 comments 182 points
  16. Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT openai.com - 115 comments 172 points
  17. Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com - 147 comments 144 points
  18. The Downfall of DeviantArt slate.com - 84 comments 143 points
  19. EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design techcrunch.com - 94 comments 139 points
  20. Port 666 is officially registered to Doom www.ibiblio.org - 52 comments 135 points
  21. Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas blog.playcanvas.com - 38 comments 132 points
  22. Show HN: I’m 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language easel.hackclub.com - 54 comments 131 points
  23. A long list of - advanced JavaScript questions, and their explanations github.com - 32 comments 131 points
  24. The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel’s forgotten part in the atom-bomb story www.nature.com - 89 comments 126 points
  25. Deutsche Bahn introduces “MetaWindow” www.railtarget.eu - 124 comments 122 points
  26. Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009 arstechnica.com - 9 comments 122 points
  27. Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications future.mozilla.org - 23 comments 119 points
  28. Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work - 2021 scottberkun.com - 115 comments 112 points
  29. Online censorship’s institutional power madattheinternet.substack.com - 48 comments 112 points
  30. Tesla’s self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it www.the-express.com - 155 comments 111 points