Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-10-14

  1. Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch - video twitter.com - 1046 comments 1764 points
  2. Diffusion for World Modeling diamond-wm.github.io - 197 comments 431 points
  3. The quiet art of attention billwear.github.io - 126 comments 421 points
  4. Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms academic.oup.com - 294 comments 350 points
  5. CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished fossil-scm.org - 202 comments 345 points
  6. WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin www.theverge.com - 201 comments 261 points
  7. Ward Christensen - of BBS and XMODEM fame has died en.wikipedia.org - 60 comments 239 points
  8. Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why www.nature.com - 148 comments 208 points
  9. Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world www.bdrc.io - 88 comments 201 points
  10. ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org www.advancedcustomfields.com - 109 comments 190 points
  11. Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object simonwillison.net - 54 comments 181 points
  12. Restic: Backups done right restic.net - 80 comments 175 points
  13. America’s new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs www.wsj.com - 185 comments 132 points
  14. Huly – Open-source project management platform github.com - 46 comments 128 points
  15. Introducing Our New Name blog.minetest.net - 52 comments 123 points
  16. DARPA is funding reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves www.wired.com - 28 comments 122 points
  17. Lessons learned from profiling an algorithm in Rust blog.mapotofu.org - 19 comments 115 points
  18. Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard github.com - 64 comments 112 points
  19. Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space people.eecs.berkeley.edu - 29 comments 108 points
  20. Why pay for a search engine help.kagi.com - 87 comments 102 points
  21. The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise www.theverge.com - 92 comments 100 points
  22. Refurb weekend: the Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machine I have hated oldvcr.blogspot.com - 23 comments 88 points
  23. Interview with Yann LeCun on AI www.wsj.com - 73 comments 85 points
  24. The TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting ‘attractive’ people www.npr.org - 85 comments 84 points
  25. The new culture war is real vs. bogus www.honest-broker.com - 77 comments 80 points
  26. A novel channel contention mechanism for improving wi-fi’s reliability arxiv.org - 31 comments 79 points
  27. Stop Ignoring Your High Performers hbr.org - 89 comments 77 points
  28. The military is an impossible place for hackers, and what to do about it - 2018 warontherocks.com - 80 comments 77 points
  29. Why does FM sound better than AM? www.johndcook.com - 91 comments 76 points
  30. Node.js, Pipes, and Disappearing Bytes sxlijin.github.io - 30 comments 74 points