Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-11-10

  1. Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab www.nature.com - 169 comments 463 points
  2. OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models opencoder-llm.github.io - 42 comments 348 points
  3. Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git mergiraf.org - 72 comments 337 points
  4. IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine www.ironcalc.com - 94 comments 330 points
  5. Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI github.com - 43 comments 265 points
  6. Memories are not only in the brain, human cell study finds medicalxpress.com - 97 comments 214 points
  7. Texture-Less Text Rendering poniesandlight.co.uk - 46 comments 186 points
  8. Show HN: Jaws – a JavaScript to WASM ahead-of-time compiler github.com - 68 comments 178 points
  9. Grim Fandango www.filfre.net - 56 comments 167 points
  10. NYC Subway Station Layouts www.projectsubwaynyc.com - 53 comments 163 points
  11. SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup hanlab.mit.edu - 56 comments 159 points
  12. SQLite does not do checksums avi.im - 95 comments 123 points
  13. Money was never the end goal – mrdoob – threejs creator twitter.com - 35 comments 115 points
  14. LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns garymarcus.substack.com - 115 comments 111 points
  15. You too can write a book parentheticallyspeaking.org - 34 comments 108 points
  16. Somebody moved the UK’s oldest satellite in the mid 1970s, but no one knows who www.bbc.co.uk - 53 comments 104 points
  17. When machine learning tells the wrong story jackcook.com - 10 comments 101 points
  18. Show HN: Visprex – Open-source, in-browser data visualisation tool for CSV files docs.visprex.com - 10 comments 100 points
  19. FrontierMath: A benchmark for evaluating advanced mathematical reasoning in AI epochai.org - 35 comments 95 points
  20. Early Cascade Injection: From Windows process creation to stealthy injection www.outflank.nl - 11 comments 92 points
  21. SQLite is not a single connection database igorstechnoclub.com - 27 comments 75 points
  22. There aren’t enough smart people in biology doing something boring www.owlposting.com - 54 comments 59 points
  23. Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space www.theguardian.com - 7 comments 58 points
  24. When you ask ChatGPT “Tell me a story” it’s always is about a girl named Elara old.reddit.com - 64 comments 56 points
  25. Maxun: Open-Source No-Code Web Data Extraction Platform github.com - 7 comments 56 points
  26. Ask HN: What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you? news.ycombinator.com - 51 comments 55 points
  27. US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ www.theregister.com - 58 comments 52 points
  28. Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor blog.torproject.org - 5 comments 48 points
  29. Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time www.usatoday.com - 23 comments 42 points
  30. Russia’s Flying Wing Drone Downed in Ukraine Packed with Western Components www.twz.com - 7 comments 40 points