Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-10

  1. Jake Seliger has died marginalrevolution.com - 163 comments 797 points
  2. OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews otranscribe.com - 93 comments 417 points
  3. Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs github.com - 134 comments 335 points
  4. .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications www.icann.org - 122 comments 248 points
  5. Show HN: Attaching to a virtual GPU over TCP www.thundercompute.com - 85 comments 204 points
  6. Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk twitter.com - 37 comments 170 points
  7. Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics - 2016 urchin.biz - 37 comments 154 points
  8. DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear power systems www.ans.org - 93 comments 147 points
  9. Base 3 Computing Beats Binary www.quantamagazine.org - 149 comments 144 points
  10. Susan Wojcicki has died www.facebook.com - 24 comments 121 points
  11. Show HN: Nous – Open-Source Agent Framework with Autonomous, SWE Agents, WebUI github.com - 26 comments 100 points
  12. Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips www.engadget.com - 89 comments 94 points
  13. Building a highly-available web service without a database blog.screenshotbot.io - 42 comments 88 points
  14. NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing’s quality control www.nbcnews.com - 51 comments 86 points
  15. Show HN: I built Mailhub – A scalable API for sending emails with ease not tears www.mailhub.sh - 41 comments 83 points
  16. Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor www.reuters.com - 77 comments 77 points
  17. Daily marijuana use linked to increased risk of deadly head and neck cancers www.cnn.com - 85 comments 76 points
  18. Using alternative browser engines in the European Union developer.apple.com - 146 comments 72 points
  19. Perceived Age suryad.com - 23 comments 71 points
  20. If you give Copilot the reins, don’t be surprised when it spills your secrets www.theregister.com - 26 comments 70 points
  21. Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace - 2012 lareviewofbooks.org - 26 comments 69 points
  22. Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it jalopnik.com - 94 comments 60 points
  23. XMPP vs. Matrix news.ycombinator.com - 79 comments 59 points
  24. Grace Hopper, Nvidia’s Halfway APU chipsandcheese.com - 13 comments 59 points
  25. The Dying Web endler.dev - 39 comments 57 points
  26. Solar energy breakthrough could reduce need for solar farms www.ox.ac.uk - 37 comments 54 points
  27. LangGraph Engineer github.com - 30 comments 54 points
  28. Rivian reduced electrical wiring by 1.6 miles and 44 pounds www.popsci.com - 13 comments 54 points
  29. HIV drug could be made for just $40 a year for every patient www.theguardian.com - 65 comments 53 points
  30. What the hell is a luminiferous theremin? extkits.co.uk - 32 comments 53 points