Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-16

  1. Kim Dotcom’s extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand torrentfreak.com - 902 comments 665 points
  2. Galois Theory golem.ph.utexas.edu - 175 comments 352 points
  3. Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy github.com - 93 comments 328 points
  4. CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office www.bloomberg.com - 196 comments 309 points
  5. CockroachDB license change www.cockroachlabs.com - 298 comments 265 points
  6. Show HN: High-precision date/time in SQLite antonz.org - 60 comments 248 points
  7. Google is a monopoly – the fix isn’t obvious www.theregister.com - 429 comments 223 points
  8. Markdown is meant to be shown - 2021 daringfireball.net - 139 comments 175 points
  9. Exact Polygonal Filtering: Using Green’s Theorem and Clipping for Anti-Aliasing jonathanolson.net - 69 comments 175 points
  10. WriteFreely: An open source platform for building a writing space on the web writefreely.org - 43 comments 143 points
  11. Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain’s trash disposal system www.sciencedaily.com - 45 comments 129 points
  12. It’s the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices www.thebignewsletter.com - 175 comments 127 points
  13. YouTube Video to Tabs and Lyrics github.com - 47 comments 126 points
  14. Artists score major win in copyright case against AI art generators www.hollywoodreporter.com - 113 comments 120 points
  15. One man’s quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One www.atlasobscura.com - 42 comments 118 points
  16. Show HN: Denormalized – Embeddable Stream Processing in Rust and DataFusion github.com - 22 comments 117 points
  17. Hermes 3: The First Fine-Tuned Llama 3.1 405B Model lambdalabs.com - 55 comments 116 points
  18. Apple vs. the “Free Market” pluralistic.net - 144 comments 110 points
  19. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Navy SEALs’ efficiency secret www.navyseal.com - 117 comments 110 points
  20. We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency hardcover.app - 123 comments 105 points
  21. RP2350 PicoDVI Preview github.com - 34 comments 105 points
  22. Launch HN: Hamming - YC S24 – Automated Testing for Voice Agents news.ycombinator.com - 51 comments 98 points
  23. CSS Grid Areas ishadeed.com - 13 comments 98 points
  24. Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition www.latacora.com - 48 comments 97 points
  25. MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems news.mit.edu - 28 comments 93 points
  26. Private, Secure and Uncensorable Messaging over a LoRa Mesh - 2022 unsigned.io - 42 comments 92 points
  27. Show HN: COBOL-REKT, a toolkit for analysing and reverse-engineering COBOL github.com - 44 comments 87 points
  28. Ditch banks – Go with money market funds and treasuries thefinancebuff.com - 86 comments 79 points
  29. Cisco slashes thousands of workers as it announces yearly profit of $10.3B www.sfgate.com - 45 comments 70 points
  30. Iranian banks hit by major cyber attack www.i24news.tv - 38 comments 69 points