Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-11-28

  1. Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone play.google.com - 332 comments 667 points
  2. Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230 github.com - 301 comments 499 points
  3. You can use C-Reduce for any language bernsteinbear.com - 67 comments 309 points
  4. Janet for Mortals - 2023 ianthehenry.com - 62 comments 222 points
  5. Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI news.ycombinator.com - 84 comments 209 points
  6. Comparing AWS S3 with Cloudflare R2: Price, Performance and User Experience kerkour.com - 112 comments 190 points
  7. Raspberry Pi CM5 is a faster, drop-in upgrade www.jeffgeerling.com - 104 comments 190 points
  8. QwQ: Alibaba’s O1 Like Reasoning LLM qwenlm.github.io - 133 comments 181 points
  9. Show HN: Feels Like Paper www.lukasmoro.com - 58 comments 159 points
  10. Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system lithub.com - 160 comments 147 points
  11. The US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation www.gamesradar.com - 163 comments 135 points
  12. Dell is posting unsigned updates to their website which fail to install infosec.exchange - 41 comments 134 points
  13. Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub github.com - 25 comments 134 points
  14. Emacs arbitrary code execution and how to avoid it eshelyaron.com - 113 comments 131 points
  15. Inferring neural activity before plasticity for learning beyond backpropagation www.nature.com - 44 comments 121 points
  16. Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library devclass.com - 59 comments 112 points
  17. The Art and Mathematics of Genji-Ko www.oranlooney.com - 7 comments 109 points
  18. London’s 850-year-old food markets to close www.bbc.co.uk - 75 comments 108 points
  19. Python type hints may not be not for me in practice utcc.utoronto.ca - 155 comments 90 points
  20. The Forgotten Story of How IBM Invented the Automated Fab spectrum.ieee.org - 10 comments 82 points
  21. TrunkVer trunkver.org - 34 comments 81 points
  22. Sleep regularity and major adverse cardiovascular events jech.bmj.com - 12 comments 81 points
  23. Five Companies Produce Nearly 25 Percent of All Plastic Waste Worldwide www.sierraclub.org - 141 comments 80 points
  24. Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century - 2022 arxiv.org - 26 comments 79 points
  25. Launch HN: Keep - YC W23 – AIOps and alert management github.com - 30 comments 77 points
  26. Bluesky Social Dataset - 235M posts from 4M users zenodo.org - 31 comments 75 points
  27. MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 www.sheldonbrown.com - 41 comments 73 points
  28. OpenWrt Community question: What do you want to see in OpenWrt? forum.openwrt.org - 65 comments 71 points
  29. Float Self-Tagging arxiv.org - 11 comments 71 points
  30. Microsoft Faces Broad Antitrust Investigation from US FTC www.bloomberg.com - 53 comments 70 points