Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-05

  1. Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason phoboslab.org - 87 comments 370 points
  2. WhenFS: Calender Is Now a File System github.com - 53 comments 233 points
  3. Jailbroke my Kindle to use it as an e-ink monitor gist.github.com - 81 comments 213 points
  4. Starting Hospice jakeseliger.com - 17 comments 170 points
  5. Self-Compressing Neural Networks arxiv.org - 35 comments 167 points
  6. Written by a 16 year old, a book on how computers work github.com - 61 comments 164 points
  7. How I Program in 2024 akkartik.name - 89 comments 163 points
  8. The Untold Story of How US Spies Sabotaged Soviet Technology www.politico.com - 66 comments 155 points
  9. Belenios: Verifiable online voting system www.belenios.org - 198 comments 136 points
  10. Using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor gist.github.com - 4 comments 130 points
  11. Praise My GitHub Profile praise-me.fly.dev - 40 comments 128 points
  12. Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming shi-yan.github.io - 14 comments 128 points
  13. USB Sniffer Lite for RP2040 github.com - 37 comments 125 points
  14. Making your own hot sauce successfulsoftware.net - 102 comments 123 points
  15. Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping github.com - 16 comments 122 points
  16. Cortex A73’s Not-So-Infinite Reordering Capacity chipsandcheese.com - 15 comments 121 points
  17. Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood www.croatiaweek.com - 126 comments 116 points
  18. Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket docs.racket-lang.org - 74 comments 113 points
  19. Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans github.com - 46 comments 103 points
  20. Puget Systems’ Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues www.pugetsystems.com - 45 comments 100 points
  21. Japan stocks plunge as much as 7% as Asia shares extend sell-off www.cnbc.com - 83 comments 97 points
  22. You can contribute to KDE with non-C++ code rabbitictranslator.com - 18 comments 94 points
  23. Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time fortune.com - 121 comments 88 points
  24. Enum class improvements for C++17, C++20 and C++23 www.cppstories.com - 48 comments 87 points
  25. Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master: The Medieval Guild - 2018 blog.philosophicalsociety.org - 24 comments 82 points
  26. Dispatches from the farm upstate lcamtuf.substack.com - 16 comments 82 points
  27. Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers viewfromthewing.com - 135 comments 79 points
  28. Zero regrets: Firefox power user kept 7,500 tabs open for two years www.techspot.com - 71 comments 79 points
  29. Berkshire halves Apple stake, boosts cash to $277B as it gets ‘defensive’ www.reuters.com - 83 comments 67 points
  30. Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library github.com - 1 comments 65 points