Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-10-26

  1. We can now fix McDonald’s ice cream machines www.ifixit.com - 172 comments 605 points
  2. Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris www.cnbc.com - 683 comments 575 points
  3. Company named “> LTD” forced to change it - 2020 www.theguardian.com - 174 comments 403 points
  4. Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life www.cnet.com - 308 comments 291 points
  5. Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court en.wikipedia.org - 176 comments 291 points
  6. Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted www.bryanbraun.com - 45 comments 244 points
  7. Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage, chromosome defects, study finds medicalxpress.com - 168 comments 230 points
  8. Smarter Than ‘Ctrl+F’: Linking Directly to Web Page Content alfy.blog - 127 comments 212 points
  9. Category Theory Illustrated: Logic - 2021 abuseofnotation.github.io - 62 comments 201 points
  10. Detecting when LLMs are uncertain www.thariq.io - 123 comments 197 points
  11. A deep dive into Linux’s new mseal syscall blog.trailofbits.com - 37 comments 187 points
  12. Battleships Logic Puzzle lukerissacher.com - 60 comments 165 points
  13. Universal optimality of Dijkstra via beyond-worst-case heaps arxiv.org - 36 comments 151 points
  14. Notes on the new Claude analysis JavaScript code execution tool simonwillison.net - 42 comments 145 points
  15. Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales www.bbc.com - 150 comments 144 points
  16. Infinite Git repos on Cloudflare workers gitlip.com - 83 comments 130 points
  17. SELinux bypasses klecko.github.io - 28 comments 128 points
  18. In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice investigatemidwest.org - 44 comments 121 points
  19. OmniParser for Pure Vision Based GUI Agent microsoft.github.io - 16 comments 104 points
  20. Federal investigators probe Tether www.wsj.com - 92 comments 101 points
  21. How can this 6 axis robot have a static accuracy of 0.05 mm? - 2021 - video www.youtube.com - 16 comments 93 points
  22. Law Enforcement Undermines Tor marx.wtf - 72 comments 92 points
  23. Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart abc7chicago.com - 44 comments 92 points
  24. Astronomers discover complex carbon molecules in interstellar space www.sciencealert.com - 13 comments 89 points
  25. OSI readies controversial open-source AI definition lwn.net - 87 comments 81 points
  26. Notes on Anthropic’s Computer Use Ability composio.dev - 100 comments 77 points
  27. Waymo closes $5.6B investment round waymo.com - 181 comments 73 points
  28. Unsafe Rust is harder than C chadaustin.me - 93 comments 72 points
  29. Ask HN: Namecheap charged my card, didn’t deliver, then upped the price news.ycombinator.com - 28 comments 70 points
  30. Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust www.404media.co - 42 comments 67 points