Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-10-06

  1. It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word www.theatlantic.com - 514 comments 627 points
  2. Linux from Scratch www.linuxfromscratch.org - 134 comments 378 points
  3. Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up www.theregister.com - 37 comments 332 points
  4. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin www.thetimes.com - 96 comments 254 points
  5. The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data datavizcatalogue.com - 26 comments 237 points
  6. I Stayed zeldman.com - 111 comments 168 points
  7. The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight www.righto.com - 23 comments 160 points
  8. The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms www.vox.com - 148 comments 158 points
  9. Arthur Whitney’s one liner sudoku solver - 2011 dfns.dyalog.com - 71 comments 153 points
  10. CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material - 2017 research.tudelft.nl - 80 comments 129 points
  11. Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap – and Companies Need to Prepare hbr.org - 93 comments 121 points
  12. Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections medicalxpress.com - 91 comments 121 points
  13. World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission www.nature.com - 37 comments 120 points
  14. Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial arstechnica.com - 164 comments 116 points
  15. We need a real GNU/Linux - not Android smartphone ecosystem old.reddit.com - 74 comments 100 points
  16. Exploiting DRAM bitflips to get a root shell bsky.app - 12 comments 100 points
  17. What is the history of the use of “foo” and “bar” in source code examples? - 2012 softwareengineering.stackexchange.com - 103 comments 97 points
  18. So thieves broke into your storage unit again oldvcr.blogspot.com - 39 comments 94 points
  19. Making the Web Boring Again washbear.neocities.org - 51 comments 90 points
  20. Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro? news.ycombinator.com - 79 comments 83 points
  21. We’re excited about our new roundabout wsdotblog.blogspot.com - 67 comments 82 points
  22. Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $ github.com - 69 comments 81 points
  23. CERN trains AI models to revolutionize cancer treatment english.elpais.com - 26 comments 81 points
  24. WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader - Proof of Concept github.com - 19 comments 70 points
  25. Router Security routersecurity.org - 34 comments 68 points
  26. Lost 1983 programming language resurrected by retro computing YouTube channel thenewstack.io - 28 comments 60 points
  27. The First Transistor Radio spectrum.ieee.org - 6 comments 59 points
  28. Automattic turns to weaponizing responsible disclosure against WP Engine twitter.com - 28 comments 58 points
  29. Wikidata Is a Giant Crosswalk File www.dbreunig.com - 2 comments 57 points
  30. The Brutalist Programming Manifesto www.call-with-current-continuation.org - 64 comments 50 points