Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-07-12

  1. The Typeset of Wall·E - 2018 typesetinthefuture.com - 67 comments 566 points
  2. WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side webvm.io - 80 comments 393 points
  3. Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation www.ccc.de - 284 comments 310 points
  4. Surviving three years in North Korea as a foreigner - 2021 mydiplomaticlife.com - 138 comments 308 points
  5. Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say www.bbc.com - 160 comments 251 points
  6. FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-Precision www.together.ai - 37 comments 227 points
  7. Shelley Duvall has died www.bbc.com - 62 comments 223 points
  8. Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions icpen.org - 225 comments 215 points
  9. Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit quickwit.io - 164 comments 206 points
  10. Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple matttproud.com - 108 comments 172 points
  11. Karpathy: Let’s reproduce GPT-2 - 1.6B: one 8XH100 node 24h $672 in llm.c github.com - 47 comments 168 points
  12. The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix - 2023 ktema.org - 101 comments 167 points
  13. Qualcomm’s Oryon core: A long time in the making chipsandcheese.com - 146 comments 164 points
  14. Korvus: Single-Query RAG with Postgres github.com - 31 comments 163 points
  15. If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it www.jeffgeerling.com - 177 comments 157 points
  16. Gene-silencing tool shows promise as a future therapy against prion diseases news.mit.edu - 32 comments 137 points
  17. Physics-Based Deep Learning Book physicsbaseddeeplearning.org - 9 comments 134 points
  18. Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health - 2023 www.afterbabel.com - 102 comments 128 points
  19. A relativistic framework to establish coordinate time on the Moon and beyond arxiv.org - 69 comments 121 points
  20. Capturing Linux SSL/TLS plaintext without a CA certificate using eBPF github.com - 42 comments 121 points
  21. Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say gizmodo.com - 195 comments 117 points
  22. First Contact with SQLite brandur.org - 82 comments 101 points
  23. Rulers of the Ancient World: period correct measuring tools www.burn-heart.com - 55 comments 101 points
  24. Serious errors plague DNA tool that’s a workhorse of biology www.nature.com - 10 comments 88 points
  25. Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés www.nber.org - 79 comments 85 points
  26. Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess gld.mcphail.uk - 30 comments 80 points
  27. Putting DuckDB in Postgres to Query Iceberg blog.paradedb.com - 17 comments 76 points
  28. GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright - 2021 felixreda.eu - 139 comments 73 points
  29. US and Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer www.cnn.com - 33 comments 72 points
  30. Google Play rejecting app update without substantive reason github.com - 20 comments 71 points