Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-10-08

  1. Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk - 124 comments 514 points
  2. Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge www.theverge.com - 377 comments 493 points
  3. What’s New in Ruby on Rails 8 blog.appsignal.com - 213 comments 468 points
  4. US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward www.reuters.com - 166 comments 379 points
  5. Nearly all of the Google images results for “baby peacock” are AI generated twitter.com - 276 comments 331 points
  6. An e-waste dumping ground www.npr.org - 171 comments 269 points
  7. Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster www.newyorker.com - 260 comments 258 points
  8. Rewrite cname uncloaking code to account for new ipaddress= option github.com - 108 comments 256 points
  9. Python 3.13.0 Is Released docs.python.org - 104 comments 239 points
  10. Hetzner Object Storage docs.hetzner.com - 173 comments 238 points
  11. Show HN: Visualization of website accessibility tree chromewebstore.google.com - 22 comments 237 points
  12. Building a single-page app with Htmx jakelazaroff.com - 112 comments 218 points
  13. The Rise of Worse Is Better - 1991 www.dreamsongs.com - 229 comments 214 points
  14. AT&T, Verizon reportedly hacked to target US govt wiretapping platform www.bleepingcomputer.com - 43 comments 204 points
  15. Homemade AI Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t www.wired.com - 105 comments 174 points
  16. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 www.nobelprize.org - 70 comments 146 points
  17. Is the attack helicopter dead? hushkit.net - 369 comments 144 points
  18. Show HN: Compiling C in the browser using WebAssembly wasmer.io - 52 comments 141 points
  19. ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms fortune.com - 90 comments 137 points
  20. Longwriter – Increase llama3.1 output to 10k words github.com - 19 comments 114 points
  21. Show HN: A website for comparing protein powder prices nutritionprices.com - 68 comments 111 points
  22. Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone wigle.net - 35 comments 111 points
  23. An illustrated proof of the CAP theorem - 2018 mwhittaker.github.io - 43 comments 110 points
  24. Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor nonzero.substack.com - 87 comments 109 points
  25. Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel spectrum.ieee.org - 127 comments 102 points
  26. Google Will Track Your Location ‘Every 15 Minutes’–‘Even with GPS Disabled’ www.forbes.com - 45 comments 101 points
  27. Every change breaks someone’s workflow - 2013 xkcd.com - 23 comments 94 points
  28. How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters engelsbergideas.com - 29 comments 92 points
  29. Is AWS S3 having an outage? news.ycombinator.com - 40 comments 89 points
  30. Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line tweedegolf.nl - 49 comments 80 points