Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-11-27

  1. California’s most neglected group of students: the gifted ones www.latimes.com - 467 comments 349 points
  2. Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows techcrunch.com - 176 comments 345 points
  3. Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang - 2022 fasterthanli.me - 429 comments 321 points
  4. A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt - 2021 medium.com - 114 comments 304 points
  5. Launch HN: Human Layer - YC F24 – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems news.ycombinator.com - 168 comments 275 points
  6. Cybertruck’s Many Recalls www.wired.com - 418 comments 271 points
  7. Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal www.quantamagazine.org - 34 comments 207 points
  8. Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation jpkoning.blogspot.com - 195 comments 206 points
  9. LLVM-powered devirtualization blog.thalium.re - 6 comments 191 points
  10. DEA passenger searches halted after watchdog finds signs of rights violations www.nbcnews.com - 190 comments 190 points
  11. Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State www.technicianonline.com - 90 comments 183 points
  12. Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll github.com - 56 comments 183 points
  13. Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad www.economist.com - 362 comments 177 points
  14. GenChess labs.google - 125 comments 177 points
  15. Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier krebsonsecurity.com - 70 comments 164 points
  16. ISPs say their “excellent customer service” is why users don’t switch providers arstechnica.com - 97 comments 146 points
  17. D-Link says it won’t patch 60k older modems www.techradar.com - 85 comments 139 points
  18. We can mine asteroids for space food www.cambridge.org - 154 comments 132 points
  19. The industry structure of LLM makers calpaterson.com - 111 comments 122 points
  20. A slave narrative resurfaces after nearly 170 years www.nytimes.com - 67 comments 122 points
  21. ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser zetaoffice.net - 38 comments 121 points
  22. Yes, it ‘looks like a duck,’ but carriers like the new USPS mail truck www.nytimes.com - 133 comments 117 points
  23. I Didn’t Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don’t Either benhouston3d.com - 116 comments 117 points
  24. Functional Programming Self-Affirmations norikitech.com - 98 comments 104 points
  25. Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping switched to opt-in by default www.tomshardware.com - 43 comments 100 points
  26. The Crime Messenger www.cbc.ca - 106 comments 94 points
  27. Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito saasprices.net - 53 comments 92 points
  28. Show HN: Silent Poems – Visual expression of unspoken thoughts silentpoems.net - 22 comments 86 points
  29. USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle’s JavaScript trademark www.infoworld.com - 25 comments 84 points
  30. 1B nested loop iterations benjdd.com - 74 comments 76 points