Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-11-08

  1. QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there’s an RPi image blackberry.qnx.com - 228 comments 507 points
  2. Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin 32bits.substack.com - 92 comments 361 points
  3. Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks www.techdirt.com - 155 comments 320 points
  4. Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill www.oregonlive.com - 213 comments 256 points
  5. Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now www.theverge.com - 387 comments 240 points
  6. Launch HN: Codebuff - YC F24 – CLI tool that writes code for you news.ycombinator.com - 186 comments 232 points
  7. AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation control.princeton.edu - 111 comments 230 points
  8. Kagi Translate blog.kagi.com - 94 comments 226 points
  9. Google banned me from Google Voice www.dannyguo.com - 115 comments 211 points
  10. Mushroom Color Atlas www.mushroomcoloratlas.com - 23 comments 191 points
  11. Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? - Under $100 and under $1000 news.ycombinator.com - 420 comments 190 points
  12. After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves arstechnica.com - 114 comments 184 points
  13. Richard A. Cash, who saved millions from dehydration, has died www.nytimes.com - 45 comments 176 points
  14. Show HN: BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics github.com - 86 comments 171 points
  15. Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released www.cbc.ca - 119 comments 160 points
  16. Excerpts from a conversation about personal information management sachachua.com - 73 comments 156 points
  17. Evaluating the world model implicit in a generative model arxiv.org - 36 comments 146 points
  18. Five minutes of exercise a day could lower blood pressure www.sydney.edu.au - 73 comments 135 points
  19. Sustainable Web Interest Group Is Formed www.w3.org - 43 comments 134 points
  20. Accelerating the Performance of Rosetta in Linux VMs on Apple Silicon developer.apple.com - 44 comments 132 points
  21. XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging adele.pages.casa - 123 comments 118 points
  22. URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars junxuan-li.github.io - 17 comments 112 points
  23. Trump’s likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he’d run the agency arstechnica.com - 101 comments 103 points
  24. Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR? www.onallbands.com - 34 comments 103 points
  25. A counter-intuitive guide to better leadership sudarkoff.com - 41 comments 101 points
  26. Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge bunny.net - 45 comments 97 points
  27. Why I love Rust for tokenising and parsing xnacly.me - 28 comments 93 points
  28. Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale opensource.microsoft.com - 18 comments 93 points
  29. Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members news.slashdot.org - 72 comments 92 points
  30. Bluesky’s at Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers thenewstack.io - 42 comments 92 points