Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-06-12

  1. Lynn Conway has died en.wikipedia.org - 276 comments 1446 points
  2. I like the RP2040 dgroshev.com - 294 comments 468 points
  3. ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress arcprize.org - 142 comments 381 points
  4. Microsoft’s official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs tech.lgbt - 197 comments 346 points
  5. Silicon Valley’s best kept secret: Founder liquidity www.stefantheard.com - 126 comments 316 points
  6. POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer - 2021 www.povray.org - 164 comments 306 points
  7. A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material www.nytimes.com - 224 comments 246 points
  8. Some people with insomnia think they’re awake when they’re asleep www.scientificamerican.com - 168 comments 237 points
  9. Norway discovers Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals www.cnbc.com - 237 comments 234 points
  10. British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower www.theregister.com - 163 comments 210 points
  11. Self-Serve Dashboards briefer.cloud - 62 comments 201 points
  12. Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code github.com - 48 comments 194 points
  13. Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman www.cnbc.com - 200 comments 193 points
  14. Swift Static Linux SDK www.swift.org - 161 comments 193 points
  15. Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software flameshot.org - 71 comments 193 points
  16. Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM christopher.engineering - 82 comments 186 points
  17. Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted unforget.computing-den.com - 92 comments 175 points
  18. London–Calcutta Bus Service en.wikipedia.org - 87 comments 173 points
  19. FDA denies petition against use of phthalates in food packaging www.fda.gov - 177 comments 153 points
  20. Google shuts down GPay app and P2P payments in the US 9to5google.com - 129 comments 149 points
  21. The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 - 2019 academic.oup.com - 104 comments 149 points
  22. Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech github.com - 41 comments 149 points
  23. Firefox 127 www.mozilla.org - 87 comments 143 points
  24. How much of a genius-level move was binary space partitioning in Doom? - 2019 twobithistory.org - 67 comments 136 points
  25. Jgs Font adelfaure.net - 13 comments 135 points
  26. Battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts www.technologyreview.com - 98 comments 132 points
  27. macOS Sequoia to Allow iCloud Logins in Virtual Machines on ARM Macs developer.apple.com - 14 comments 131 points
  28. Meta Open-Sources Megalodon LLM for Efficient Long Sequence Modeling www.infoq.com - 10 comments 125 points
  29. T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next arstechnica.com - 71 comments 123 points
  30. All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration www.theverge.com - 150 comments 121 points