Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-07-28

  1. An experiment in UI density created with Svelte cybernetic.dev - 142 comments 536 points
  2. SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem sqlite.org - 174 comments 437 points
  3. In the Beginning Was the Command Line - 1999 web.stanford.edu - 189 comments 311 points
  4. How did Facebook intercept their competitor’s encrypted mobile app traffic? doubleagent.net - 98 comments 261 points
  5. Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool github.com - 29 comments 201 points
  6. Göttingen was one of the most productive centers of mathematics theconversation.com - 133 comments 167 points
  7. Oscar Zariski was one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry boogiemath.org - 63 comments 166 points
  8. Learning about PCI-e: Driver and DMA blog.davidv.dev - 15 comments 161 points
  9. Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic - 2017 cdm.link - 45 comments 144 points
  10. Sqlitefs: SQLite as a Filesystem github.com - 39 comments 132 points
  11. Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland apnews.com - 79 comments 126 points
  12. Tritone Substitutions johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com - 63 comments 100 points
  13. Managarm: Pragmatic microkernel-based OS with asynchronous I/O github.com - 40 comments 99 points
  14. Oh man! Our entire team has been replaced by Vietnam developers. old.reddit.com - 79 comments 96 points
  15. How to Debug Your Battery github.com - 16 comments 94 points
  16. Plan 9 is a uniquely complete operating system posixcafe.org - 29 comments 90 points
  17. Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts bret.dk - 76 comments 86 points
  18. Adobe exec compared Creative Cloud cancellation fees to ‘heroin’ www.theverge.com - 70 comments 84 points
  19. Roguecraft Devs on Developing for Amiga in 2024 www.timeextension.com - 2 comments 79 points
  20. Bashsimplecurses: Simple curses library made in bash to draw terminal interfaces github.com - 23 comments 74 points
  21. Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble www.washingtonpost.com - 80 comments 67 points
  22. An Interview with Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut - 1999 www.robertcaro.org - 20 comments 64 points
  23. How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer www.wired.com - 29 comments 59 points
  24. Workbrew workbrew.com - 20 comments 57 points
  25. Elon Musk Shares Manipulated Harris Video, in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies www.nytimes.com - 11 comments 55 points
  26. Texas woman gets 15 years for stealing $109M from Army to buy mansions, cars www.usatoday.com - 59 comments 52 points
  27. UBI and the Anti-Work Vibe Shift www.greshm.org - 129 comments 49 points
  28. Google reported a 13% increase in its emissions footprint in 2023 indianexpress.com - 35 comments 49 points
  29. Revealing the Inner Structure of AWS Session Tokens medium.com - 9 comments 49 points
  30. Was early modern writing paper expensive? - 2018 www.folger.edu - 66 comments 46 points