Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-08-28

  1. Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team www.mono-project.com - 289 comments 953 points
  2. Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content www.politico.com - 980 comments 546 points
  3. A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily www.freepublicapis.com - 70 comments 337 points
  4. The Monospace Web owickstrom.github.io - 75 comments 311 points
  5. Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor www.theartnewspaper.com - 79 comments 287 points
  6. Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines gamengen.github.io - 65 comments 281 points
  7. Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate’s app even bigger..? twitter.com - 203 comments 230 points
  8. U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming ‘unhealthy’ amount of American news thehub.ca - 290 comments 220 points
  9. Faster CRDTs - 2021 josephg.com - 64 comments 220 points
  10. Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world www.blitzortung.org - 84 comments 203 points
  11. Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle rachel.fast.ai - 124 comments 197 points
  12. “Tinyboxes finally have a buy it now button” twitter.com - 118 comments 189 points
  13. New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’ krebsonsecurity.com - 45 comments 186 points
  14. Malware infiltrates Pidgin messenger’s official plugin repository www.bleepingcomputer.com - 20 comments 159 points
  15. Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization freebsdfoundation.org - 82 comments 155 points
  16. 80% of AI Projects Crash and Burn, Billions Wasted Says Rand Report salesforcedevops.net - 146 comments 154 points
  17. Cerebras Inference: AI at Instant Speed cerebras.ai - 62 comments 148 points
  18. Just use fucking paper, man andy-bell.co.uk - 152 comments 143 points
  19. Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup en.wikipedia.org - 63 comments 142 points
  20. Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power newatlas.com - 341 comments 141 points
  21. Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages despite normal crops? mainichi.jp - 171 comments 129 points
  22. The possibilities for dark matter have shrunk www.sciencenews.org - 77 comments 126 points
  23. Splatt3R: Zero-Shot Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Image Pairs splatt3r.active.vision - 27 comments 125 points
  24. Is ‘No tax on tips’ a distraction from the fight to end sub-minimum wages? www.theguardian.com - 201 comments 121 points
  25. Notes on Buttondown.com jmduke.com - 85 comments 119 points
  26. MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust lucumr.pocoo.org - 50 comments 105 points
  27. Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management taskwarrior.org - 36 comments 105 points
  28. Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare bacteria arstechnica.com - 106 comments 97 points
  29. Launch HN: Bucket Robotics - YC S24 – Defect detection for molded and cast parts news.ycombinator.com - 20 comments 90 points
  30. Starliner Is Such a Disaster That Boeing May Cancel the Entire Project futurism.com - 128 comments 84 points