Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-20

  1. 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted github.com - 168 comments 398 points
  2. The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud berthub.eu - 173 comments 353 points
  3. Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C - 2021 blog.reverberate.org - 142 comments 339 points
  4. Launch HN: Sorcerer - YC S24 – Weather balloons that collect more data news.ycombinator.com - 125 comments 292 points
  5. Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet snats.xyz - 99 comments 270 points
  6. Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place netboot.xyz - 46 comments 225 points
  7. The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile www.righto.com - 99 comments 154 points
  8. Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults sociologicalscience.com - 177 comments 146 points
  9. AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products www.aisnakeoil.com - 147 comments 113 points
  10. The Dying Computer Museum ascii.textfiles.com - 21 comments 112 points
  11. Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday thingswemake.com - 15 comments 112 points
  12. Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly andadinosaur.com - 44 comments 109 points
  13. Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS jvns.ca - 26 comments 106 points
  14. Lenticular Clock www.instructables.com - 22 comments 106 points
  15. Music recommendation system using transformer models research.google - 43 comments 103 points
  16. Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional www.techdirt.com - 57 comments 100 points
  17. LLMs know more than what they say arjunbansal.substack.com - 12 comments 95 points
  18. ‘Rare species’ not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera phys.org - 23 comments 92 points
  19. Procreate’s anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives www.theverge.com - 40 comments 89 points
  20. Artificial intelligence is losing hype www.economist.com - 97 comments 84 points
  21. On the cruelty of really teaching computing science - 1988 www.cs.utexas.edu - 45 comments 79 points
  22. Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models in local LLM ollama.com - 24 comments 79 points
  23. Cardinal – Virtual modular synthesizer plugin cardinal.kx.studio - 21 comments 77 points
  24. $50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU arstechnica.com - 34 comments 76 points
  25. Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead? news.ycombinator.com - 51 comments 72 points
  26. The Epic Games Store Launches on iOS and Android www.epicgames.com - 48 comments 66 points
  27. Optimizing global message transit latency: a journey through TCP configuration ably.com - 13 comments 65 points
  28. What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg noahkagan.com - 90 comments 64 points
  29. The bizarre siege behind Stockholm Syndrome www.bbc.com - 41 comments 63 points
  30. Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively? news.ycombinator.com - 43 comments 61 points