Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-21

  1. Toasts are bad UX maxschmitt.me - 314 comments 521 points
  2. Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection promptarmor.substack.com - 115 comments 458 points
  3. MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract sparcopen.org - 137 comments 422 points
  4. The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown zarar.dev - 241 comments 390 points
  5. Zed AI zed.dev - 224 comments 336 points
  6. Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers - 1953 - video www.youtube.com - 106 comments 309 points
  7. Transformers for Ruby github.com - 37 comments 300 points
  8. US judge throws out FTC’s ban on non-compete agreements www.ft.com - 257 comments 269 points
  9. Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor pragtical.dev - 100 comments 239 points
  10. Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o openai.com - 85 comments 204 points
  11. I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company digipres.club - 64 comments 197 points
  12. The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? - 2018 jakevdp.github.io - 162 comments 184 points
  13. Why are Texas interchanges so tall? practical.engineering - 244 comments 172 points
  14. The U.S. Navy’s $100M checkbox - 2019 adrian3.com - 123 comments 171 points
  15. Exposure to the Sun’s UV radiation may be good for you www.economist.com - 166 comments 151 points
  16. Nasir Ahmed’s digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible spectrum.ieee.org - 39 comments 151 points
  17. Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine www.zen-browser.app - 41 comments 141 points
  18. US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker ‘Noncompete’ Agreements www.reuters.com - 114 comments 123 points
  19. The YouTube like button glows when you say “smash that like button” - video www.youtube.com - 110 comments 110 points
  20. Making database systems usable muratbuffalo.blogspot.com - 73 comments 97 points
  21. Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging astral.sh - 36 comments 90 points
  22. Higher ultraviolet light exposure is associated with lower mortality www.sciencedirect.com - 42 comments 80 points
  23. Condé Nast Signs Deal with OpenAI www.wired.com - 56 comments 78 points
  24. Plasmo – a framework for building modern Chrome extensions github.com - 10 comments 77 points
  25. Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles www.ycombinator.com - 86 comments 75 points
  26. Launch HN: MinusX - YC S24 – AI assistant for data tools like Jupyter/Metabase news.ycombinator.com - 25 comments 73 points
  27. What’s the big deal about Deterministic Simulation Testing? notes.eatonphil.com - 12 comments 73 points
  28. Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in fraud trial ‘fatally struck’ by car while jogging www.theguardian.com - 78 comments 69 points
  29. A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning www.asomo.co - 39 comments 68 points
  30. Reflecting on transducers in Scheme - 2023 www.thatgeoguy.ca - 25 comments 68 points