Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-19

  1. Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules reason.com - 243 comments 573 points
  2. Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV github.com - 53 comments 319 points
  3. Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M www.theblock.co - 125 comments 279 points
  4. Leaving Neovim for Zed stevedylan.dev - 186 comments 240 points
  5. Mike Magee, founder of the Register, has died fudzilla.com - 32 comments 220 points
  6. Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue github.com - 67 comments 195 points
  7. Algorithms we develop software by grantslatton.com - 82 comments 189 points
  8. Markov chains are funnier than LLMs emnudge.dev - 80 comments 184 points
  9. Getting back into C programming for CP/M kevinboone.me - 81 comments 167 points
  10. How the OCaml type checker works - 2022 okmij.org - 33 comments 165 points
  11. Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview www.youtube.com - 104 comments 155 points
  12. Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S. projects.propublica.org - 30 comments 149 points
  13. Surveillance Watch – the hidden connections within the surveillance industry www.surveillancewatch.io - 33 comments 142 points
  14. Micro-libraries should never be used bvisness.me - 132 comments 130 points
  15. Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable www.matthewball.co - 97 comments 127 points
  16. The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep www.biorxiv.org - 44 comments 125 points
  17. CSS adds vertical centering in 2024 build-your-own.org - 40 comments 124 points
  18. The Expert Mind - pdf - 2006 personal.utdallas.edu - 69 comments 115 points
  19. Tell HN: X stopped requiring authentication, nitter works again nitter.lucabased.xyz - 88 comments 113 points
  20. Prompt Caching docs.anthropic.com - 54 comments 111 points
  21. Apple might be implementing a VPN censorship order in Brazil status.proton.me - 84 comments 106 points
  22. Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib www.independent.co.uk - 153 comments 103 points
  23. Alain Delon has died www.theguardian.com - 28 comments 100 points
  24. Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more www.greenwichtime.com - 119 comments 91 points
  25. Bold Edit: An editor written by power users bold-edit.com - 42 comments 91 points
  26. 17,000 AT&T workers across the Southeast strike over contract negotiations www.npr.org - 20 comments 91 points
  27. UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite www.theguardian.com - 76 comments 86 points
  28. Noexcept affects libstdc++’s unordered_set quuxplusone.github.io - 62 comments 86 points
  29. Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines - 2005 - pdf www.usenix.org - 13 comments 85 points
  30. NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1M Miles per Hour science.nasa.gov - 32 comments 82 points