Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-05-22

  1. Gordon Bell has died arstechnica.com - 55 comments 867 points
  2. What UI density means and how to design for it matthewstrom.com - 314 comments 606 points
  3. CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser mattferraro.dev - 172 comments 477 points
  4. Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise mullvad.net - 179 comments 378 points
  5. Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions plsfix.co - 339 comments 373 points
  6. The OpenAI board was right garymarcus.substack.com - 332 comments 303 points
  7. NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching github.com - 256 comments 301 points
  8. Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years bugzilla.mozilla.org - 144 comments 287 points
  9. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is slate.com - 347 comments 282 points
  10. The curious case of the missing period tjaart.substack.com - 109 comments 275 points
  11. Building an AI game studio: what we’ve learned so far braindump.me - 255 comments 258 points
  12. Show HN: I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures graphgame.sabrina.dev - 53 comments 241 points
  13. Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder github.com - 58 comments 228 points
  14. How Might We Learn? andymatuschak.org - 69 comments 211 points
  15. Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights www.erlang.org - 42 comments 210 points
  16. Reversing Choplifter blondihacks.com - 39 comments 178 points
  17. Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model www.anthropic.com - 74 comments 176 points
  18. Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 - 1943 fraser.stlouisfed.org - 149 comments 172 points
  19. Taking Risk tomblomfield.com - 218 comments 169 points
  20. Scandal at America’s top science fair www.karlstack.com - 62 comments 165 points
  21. How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set “Web” as Default tenbluelinks.org - 147 comments 163 points
  22. iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload xeiaso.net - 255 comments 160 points
  23. One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence www.bbc.com - 282 comments 155 points
  24. Images that Sound: Generating spectrograms that are also images ificl.github.io - 32 comments 150 points
  25. “Dark money” groups help private ISPs lobby against municipal broadband arstechnica.com - 142 comments 148 points
  26. Storing knowledge in a single long plain text file breckyunits.com - 56 comments 144 points
  27. Clever code is probably the worst code you could write - 2023 read.engineerscodex.com - 148 comments 141 points
  28. Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More enterprise.wikimedia.com - 89 comments 131 points
  29. We created the first open source implementation of Meta’s TestGen–LLM www.codium.ai - 37 comments 130 points
  30. Microsoft Phi-3 Cookbook github.com - 48 comments 121 points