Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-10-04

  1. Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public blog.cloudflare.com - 294 comments 936 points
  2. Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT openai.com - 509 comments 714 points
  3. Why Gumroad Didn’t Choose Htmx htmx.org - 166 comments 337 points
  4. Were RNNs all we needed? arxiv.org - 147 comments 335 points
  5. Terminal colours are tricky jvns.ca - 122 comments 309 points
  6. Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity - 2018 journals.plos.org - 136 comments 254 points
  7. What excessive screen time does to the adult brain longevity.stanford.edu - 177 comments 252 points
  8. Google won’t be mandating a strict return-to-office plan www.entrepreneur.com - 238 comments 245 points
  9. Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims www.starlink.com - 234 comments 230 points
  10. Ask HN: What happens to “.io” TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands? news.ycombinator.com - 181 comments 224 points
  11. Serving 70B-scale LLMs efficiently on low-resource edge devices - pdf arxiv.org - 54 comments 224 points
  12. Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users arstechnica.com - 131 comments 218 points
  13. Image Editing with Gaussian Splatting www.unite.ai - 59 comments 217 points
  14. Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, has died spectrum.ieee.org - 20 comments 215 points
  15. FLUX1.1 - pro – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs replicate.com - 126 comments 193 points
  16. Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store frozenfractal.com - 152 comments 184 points
  17. France’s oldest treasure hunt has been solved goldenowlhunt.com - 35 comments 176 points
  18. Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? - 2017 unix.stackexchange.com - 48 comments 171 points
  19. Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library flyonui.com - 77 comments 170 points
  20. UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius www.bbc.co.uk - 174 comments 159 points
  21. Most gamers prefer single-player games www.midiaresearch.com - 190 comments 155 points
  22. EU: Definition of “potential terrorists” opens door to broad information-sharing www.statewatch.org - 235 comments 151 points
  23. US Dept of Energy announces $1.5B in electric grid improvements www.upi.com - 81 comments 143 points
  24. Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs it-notes.dragas.net - 48 comments 126 points
  25. MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone mikrophone.net - 32 comments 118 points
  26. Solving methane mysteries with satellite imagery blog.datadesk.eco - 20 comments 116 points
  27. Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line www.space.com - 41 comments 108 points
  28. The Heart of Unix - 2018 ericnormand.me - 53 comments 106 points
  29. Matt Mullenweg cries foul and threatens me with legal action medium.com - 40 comments 100 points
  30. AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence www.theregister.com - 66 comments 77 points