Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-09-15

  1. Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city news.ycombinator.com - 279 comments 598 points
  2. Terence Tao on O1 mathstodon.xyz - 309 comments 523 points
  3. How America’s universities became debt factories anandsanwal.me - 439 comments 394 points
  4. Writing an OS in Rust github.com - 37 comments 291 points
  5. LLMs Will Always Hallucinate, and We Need to Live with This arxiv.org - 203 comments 237 points
  6. Falsehoods programmers believe about TCP lwn.net - 160 comments 214 points
  7. OpenSCAD: The Programmer’s Solid 3D CAD Modeller openscad.org - 85 comments 212 points
  8. One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel - 2016 www.science.org - 101 comments 210 points
  9. The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out theconversation.com - 132 comments 200 points
  10. Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker 10maurycy10.github.io - 38 comments 153 points
  11. The Bastard Operator from Hell - 1999 bofh.bjash.com - 50 comments 152 points
  12. Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech ianbetteridge.com - 37 comments 152 points
  13. Factor 0.100 Now Available re.factorcode.org - 21 comments 133 points
  14. Why Scrum Is Stressing You Out rethinkingsoftware.substack.com - 99 comments 115 points
  15. Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat zachxbt.mirror.xyz - 56 comments 110 points
  16. They don’t make readers like they used to www.antipope.org - 110 comments 109 points
  17. Valkey achieved one million RPS 6 months after forking from Redis valkey.io - 34 comments 108 points
  18. The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases victoriametrics.com - 39 comments 102 points
  19. Twelve Sentenced for Violent Home Invasion Robberies to Steal Cryptocurrency www.justice.gov - 57 comments 90 points
  20. To forget is an ethical act emilygorcenski.com - 29 comments 86 points
  21. Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong www.ft.com - 79 comments 84 points
  22. iPhone 16’s A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip 9to5mac.com - 112 comments 83 points
  23. The Department of Everything – Dispatches from the telephone reference desk hedgehogreview.com - 22 comments 81 points
  24. Almost all new car sales in Norway last month were EVs qz.com - 71 comments 79 points
  25. Everyone says Chrome devastates Mac battery life, but does it? 36 hour test birchtree.me - 90 comments 78 points
  26. Testing the Firefox Alternatives tommorris.org - 57 comments 78 points
  27. Why use metaphors in conflicts? Because understanding is remembering in disguise - 2009 westallen.typepad.com - 66 comments 71 points
  28. Nesting Arena Allocators in Rust blog.yoshuawuyts.com - 4 comments 70 points
  29. How a scientist is pushing to supersize research into ultra-processed foods www.statnews.com - 89 comments 66 points
  30. Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop giacomo.coletto.io - 92 comments 64 points