Hacker News top 30 - 2024-11-17

1. Show HN: I built a- nother house optimized for LAN parties lanparty.house - 213 comments 536 points
2. SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? - 2010 simondobson.org - 116 comments 281 points
3. James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity thedebrief.org - 109 comments 257 points
4. Yggdrasil Network yggdrasil-network.github.io - 88 comments 250 points
5. Two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens phys.org - 60 comments 203 points
6. YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design www.zach.be - 178 comments 199 points
7. Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day bsky.jazco.dev - 192 comments 192 points
8. Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash myelectricsparks.com - 168 comments 180 points
9. Kyanos: eBPF-based network issue analysis tool github.com - 14 comments 179 points
10. Ask HN: What open source projects need help? news.ycombinator.com - 83 comments 171 points
11. The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver firehose3d.theo.io - 52 comments 168 points
12. Casio has released a ring in the form of its iconic watch www.theverge.com - 71 comments 166 points
13. M4 Macs can’t virtualise older macOS eclecticlight.co - 140 comments 162 points
14. Treating bullying as everyone’s problem reduces incidence in primary schools phys.org - 161 comments 156 points
15. CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color rebeccapurple michaelcharl.es - 16 comments 155 points
16. Stop making me memorize the borrow checker erikmcclure.com - 110 comments 136 points
17. Statistical Rethinking - 2024 Edition github.com - 22 comments 115 points
18. Logica – Declarative logic programming language for data logica.dev - 39 comments 114 points
19. Teach yourself to echolocate www.atlasobscura.com - 25 comments 107 points
20. Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean environment and life www.chemistryworld.com - 40 comments 101 points
21. Military’s UFO-hunting aerial surveillance system detailed in report www.twz.com - 93 comments 100 points
22. We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour bsky.app - 158 comments 99 points
23. James Gleick’s Chaos: The Software github.com - 9 comments 98 points
24. Optimizers: The Low-Key MVP duckdb.org - 6 comments 95 points
25. X’s algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to boost right-leaning accounts mastodon.social - 38 comments 84 points
26. Apple Smells Blood in the Water petapixel.com - 89 comments 83 points
27. Numpyro: Probabilistic programming with NumPy powered by Jax github.com - 18 comments 82 points
28. Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row but says progress made thehill.com - 49 comments 79 points
29. A Case Against the Placebo Effect carcinisation.com - 82 comments 77 points
30. C Compiler to SPIR-V github.com - 9 comments 75 points