Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-06-09

  1. The Backrooms of the Internet Archive blog.archive.org - 72 comments 498 points
  2. Detecting a PS2 Emulator: When 1X does not equal X fobes.dev - 57 comments 225 points
  3. South Pole Water Infrastructure brr.fyi - 55 comments 221 points
  4. Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia www.ox.ac.uk - 151 comments 217 points
  5. Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited deafness cosmosmagazine.com - 66 comments 205 points
  6. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project - 2021 intuitiveexplanations.com - 107 comments 183 points
  7. LSP-AI: open-source language server serving as back end for AI code assistance github.com - 41 comments 168 points
  8. My favorite 1980’s Canadian TV show: Bits and Bytes omarshehata.substack.com - 50 comments 158 points
  9. Boeing Passenger Jet Nearly Crashes Because of Known Software Bug www.independent.co.uk - 64 comments 152 points
  10. Content Injection Attack on GitHub github.com - 49 comments 151 points
  11. Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth phys.org - 86 comments 138 points
  12. Mozilla silently bans 2 anti-state-censorship add-ons in Russia discourse.mozilla.org - 55 comments 112 points
  13. Breaking up is hard to do: Chunking in RAG applications stackoverflow.blog - 37 comments 105 points
  14. Ask HN: How to handle a senior hire turning out to be junior? news.ycombinator.com - 201 comments 104 points
  15. Beware anti patterns in event driven architecture codeopinion.com - 56 comments 102 points
  16. The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity - 2017 www.journals.uchicago.edu - 43 comments 91 points
  17. Garbage collect your technical debt - 2021 ieeexplore.ieee.org - 34 comments 86 points
  18. What happened to Captura? OSS maintainer burnout - 2023 mathewsachin.github.io - 82 comments 78 points
  19. Building a SaaS product with Htmx – Are you sure you need all the complexity? www.chatterpulseai.com - 50 comments 71 points
  20. What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? - 2017 www.bbc.com - 142 comments 66 points
  21. EU Plans Major Expansion of Mass Surveillance reclaimthenet.org - 32 comments 65 points
  22. Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing? news.ycombinator.com - 55 comments 62 points
  23. Draw an iceberg and see how it will float joshdata.me - 9 comments 62 points
  24. Creating a matchmaker for your multiplayer game mas-bandwidth.com - 19 comments 58 points
  25. Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3M check to US Government arstechnica.com - 24 comments 56 points
  26. Tokyo’s Government Is Building Its Own Dating App to Combat Falling Birthrates time.com - 100 comments 54 points
  27. Scalable MatMul-Free Language Modeling arxiv.org - 3 comments 50 points
  28. AI Appears to Rapidly Be Approaching Brick Wall Where It Can’t Get Smarter futurism.com - 57 comments 48 points
  29. Forested wetlands are missing from maps www.hcn.org - 36 comments 48 points
  30. Ventoy – Bootable USB Solution github.com - 18 comments 48 points