Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-07-15

  1. Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters arxiv.org - 94 comments 229 points
  2. How to Know When It’s Time to Go thecodist.com - 115 comments 218 points
  3. Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support buzzinga.io - 56 comments 203 points
  4. Just Be Rich - 2021 keenen.xyz - 212 comments 200 points
  5. Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch thasso.xyz - 52 comments 195 points
  6. Building and scaling Notion’s data lake www.notion.so - 60 comments 179 points
  7. The six dumbest ideas in computer security - 2005 www.ranum.com - 175 comments 178 points
  8. Calculating position from raw GPS data - 2017 www.telesens.co - 27 comments 164 points
  9. Git-PR: patch requests over SSH pr.pico.sh - 91 comments 162 points
  10. Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim github.com - 33 comments 134 points
  11. Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech listenly.io - 98 comments 129 points
  12. Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets longform.asmartbear.com - 57 comments 107 points
  13. California Grid Breezes Through Heatwave with Batteries thinc.blog - 89 comments 105 points
  14. Show HN: Kaskade – A text user interface for Kafka github.com - 19 comments 98 points
  15. Building the Bell System www.construction-physics.com - 31 comments 90 points
  16. Z80 CPU Microprocessor Instant Reference Card - 1981 - pdf ballyalley.com - 17 comments 89 points
  17. Leaked payroll data show how much Valve pays staff and how few people it employs www.theverge.com - 87 comments 86 points
  18. HIV breakthrough: Trial shows drug provides 100% protection www.universityworldnews.com - 31 comments 84 points
  19. A.I. Needs Copper. It Just Helped to Find Millions of Tons of It in Zambia. www.nytimes.com - 42 comments 83 points
  20. Tabloid: A clickbait headline programming language - 2021 tabloid.vercel.app - 4 comments 82 points
  21. Disqualified - 1954 www.gutenberg.org - 24 comments 79 points
  22. OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive NDAs www.reuters.com - 16 comments 75 points
  23. On Building Systems That Will Fail - 1991 larch-www.lcs.mit.edu - 16 comments 73 points
  24. Go range iterators demystified www.dolthub.com - 57 comments 64 points
  25. Samsung declares different TBW for same SSD model on different markets news.ycombinator.com - 22 comments 63 points
  26. Human history in the long run: It was mostly pretty bad www.slowboring.com - 65 comments 62 points
  27. New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen type.cyhsu.xyz - 6 comments 62 points
  28. Show HN: Procedural Art –– ‘Pulse’ soham-saha.github.io - 14 comments 61 points
  29. A prank cursor resulted in an employee being fired before they started - 2020 devblogs.microsoft.com - 18 comments 58 points
  30. Grind – An epic first person shooter for Amiga 500 gets another playable tease www.indieretronews.com - 11 comments 58 points