Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-10-29

  1. We’re forking Flutter flutterfoundation.dev - 445 comments 572 points
  2. New iMac with M4 www.apple.com - 952 comments 436 points
  3. Buy payphones and retire computer.rip - 231 comments 373 points
  4. A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write research.google - 63 comments 301 points
  5. So long WordPress chriswiegman.com - 182 comments 294 points
  6. Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend - 2016 programmingisterrible.com - 90 comments 253 points
  7. The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance blog.cr.yp.to - 110 comments 204 points
  8. Why so few Matt Levines? gwern.net - 99 comments 182 points
  9. Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO danluu.com - 314 comments 169 points
  10. How Gothic architecture became spooky www.architecturaldigest.com - 104 comments 166 points
  11. Using reinforcement learning and $4.80 of GPU time to find the best HN post openpipe.ai - 74 comments 156 points
  12. HTML Form Validation is underused expressionstatement.com - 108 comments 155 points
  13. NY Times gets 230 wrong again www.techdirt.com - 98 comments 132 points
  14. Standardizing Automotive Connectivity www.tesla.com - 133 comments 125 points
  15. 200k subscribers flee ‘Washington Post’ after Bezos blocks Harris endorsement www.npr.org - 148 comments 112 points
  16. On Good Software Engineers candost.blog - 94 comments 112 points
  17. Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read shepherd.com - 137 comments 92 points
  18. Psychological safety vs. high standards: A misunderstood dynamic www.leadingsapiens.com - 50 comments 91 points
  19. Dramatic drop in marijuana use among U.S. youth over a decade www.fau.edu - 204 comments 90 points
  20. Millions may rely on groundwater contaminated with PFAS for drinking water phys.org - 37 comments 87 points
  21. DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub github.com - 26 comments 86 points
  22. Show HN: Marmite – Zero-config static site generator github.com - 44 comments 84 points
  23. Improving Xwayland window resizing blog.vladzahorodnii.com - 47 comments 82 points
  24. Family medicine is in decline thewalrus.ca - 196 comments 81 points
  25. Critique of Freakonomics interview with psychologist Ellen Langer statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu - 69 comments 80 points
  26. Apple Intelligence is coming to the EU in April 2025 techcrunch.com - 42 comments 80 points
  27. SQLite Rsync: Database Remote-Copy Tool for SQLite sqlite.org - 11 comments 73 points
  28. AI Slop Is Flooding Medium www.wired.com - 68 comments 69 points
  29. Shenzhou-18 crew records video showcasing life, work in space - video www.youtube.com - 12 comments 69 points
  30. GDDR7 Memory Supercharges AI Inference semiengineering.com - 34 comments 68 points