Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-06-24

  1. I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers dropofahat.zone - 297 comments 1001 points
  2. The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets www.righto.com - 281 comments 559 points
  3. Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM fuglede.github.io - 114 comments 421 points
  4. Start all of your commands with a comma - 2009 rhodesmill.org - 143 comments 348 points
  5. I’ve stopped using box plots - 2021 nightingaledvs.com - 204 comments 324 points
  6. Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC quic.video - 171 comments 176 points
  7. Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data theconversation.com - 202 comments 164 points
  8. Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4 grski.pl - 196 comments 152 points
  9. LINQPad – The .NET Programmer’s Playground www.linqpad.net - 50 comments 149 points
  10. The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn’t Need Oxygen to Survive www.sciencealert.com - 56 comments 146 points
  11. Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off restofworld.org - 125 comments 143 points
  12. Of Psion and Symbian www.abortretry.fail - 48 comments 142 points
  13. US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban www.opb.org - 100 comments 140 points
  14. Traffic noise hurts children’s brains www.bbc.com - 102 comments 139 points
  15. Asynchronous Consensus Without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography eprint.iacr.org - 40 comments 126 points
  16. Some fundraisers pay >90% of the funds to themselves www.propublica.org - 49 comments 123 points
  17. Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy www.nature.com - 58 comments 107 points
  18. Picolisp a Railroad Simulation picolisp-explored.com - 30 comments 107 points
  19. The City of London which is not part of London - 2016 www.thevintagenews.com - 93 comments 106 points
  20. I found an 8 years old bug in Xorg trace.yshui.dev - 28 comments 100 points
  21. “We argue that mitochondria are the processor of the cell” - 2022 www.cell.com - 53 comments 99 points
  22. Arbitrary shell command evaluation in Org Mode - GNU Emacs seclists.org - 20 comments 96 points
  23. Review of Linux on Minisforum V3 AMD Ryzen Tablet mudkip.me - 53 comments 94 points
  24. Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles arxiv.org - 3 comments 88 points
  25. Y combinator codex - 2021 phoe.github.io - 19 comments 82 points
  26. SquirrelFS: Using the Rust compiler to check file-system crash consistency arxiv.org - 9 comments 76 points
  27. Citizens to End SuperPACs www.citizenstoendsuperpacs.org - 38 comments 69 points
  28. US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication www.dropbox.com - 29 comments 69 points
  29. Fresh water on Earth emerged 500M years earlier than previously thought www.curtin.edu.au - 70 comments 65 points
  30. Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding www.theverge.com - 52 comments 63 points