Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-06-22

  1. Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up - 2021 www.npr.org - 350 comments 521 points
  2. Ladybird browser spreads its wings lwn.net - 290 comments 403 points
  3. Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers’ court win arstechnica.com - 306 comments 365 points
  4. My Windows Computer Just Doesn’t Feel Like Mine Anymore www.howtogeek.com - 258 comments 311 points
  5. Innovation heroes are a sign of a dysfunctional organization steveblank.substack.com - 139 comments 282 points
  6. Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design blog.jitx.com - 138 comments 282 points
  7. Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code lemmy.world - 70 comments 252 points
  8. Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments www.theolivepress.es - 315 comments 228 points
  9. OpenAI Acquires Rockset openai.com - 73 comments 225 points
  10. Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F www.sfchronicle.com - 225 comments 199 points
  11. Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955 navyhistory.au - 51 comments 174 points
  12. From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction arstechnica.com - 64 comments 169 points
  13. CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux criu.org - 52 comments 145 points
  14. Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion github.com - 28 comments 129 points
  15. How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms? zachartrand.github.io - 53 comments 123 points
  16. How the square root of 2 became a number www.quantamagazine.org - 84 comments 116 points
  17. How to prolong lithium based batteries batteryuniversity.com - 86 comments 113 points
  18. Show HN: Lady Deirdre 2 – Rust Framework for Compilers and LSP Servers github.com - 29 comments 106 points
  19. Bessemer Venture Partners’ Anti-Portfolio www.bvp.com - 41 comments 99 points
  20. Show HN: High-frequency trading and market-making backtesting tool with examples github.com - 31 comments 87 points
  21. Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? mathstodon.xyz - 91 comments 86 points
  22. Apple won’t roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns www.bloomberg.com - 151 comments 85 points
  23. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought - pdf gwern.net - 35 comments 81 points
  24. Google Search is indexing has halted twitter.com - 23 comments 81 points
  25. Stanford student collects her Master’s degree at the age of 105 ed.stanford.edu - 27 comments 76 points
  26. Climate Zones pudding.cool - 25 comments 75 points
  27. Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge mattsclancy.substack.com - 3 comments 73 points
  28. More evidence against the “ecocide” theory of Easter Island arstechnica.com - 25 comments 70 points
  29. FDA, Industry Actions End Sales of PFAS Used in Food Packaging www.fda.gov - 31 comments 68 points
  30. Migrating from Java 8 to Java 17: A Comprehensive Guide to New Features igorstechnoclub.com - 58 comments 64 points