Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-02

  1. Advent of Code 2024 adventofcode.com - 442 comments 1098 points
  2. Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines markwhen.com - 39 comments 364 points
  3. Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75% bilbof.com - 97 comments 203 points
  4. Kyawthuite is so rare it’s only ever been found once www.sciencealert.com - 79 comments 201 points
  5. What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2025? publicdomainreview.org - 157 comments 194 points
  6. Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives reasoning in large language models arxiv.org - 65 comments 181 points
  7. Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain www.openread.academy - 108 comments 163 points
  8. Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from? news.ycombinator.com - 104 comments 140 points
  9. Review of “Statistics” by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves - 2017 cadlag.org - 19 comments 133 points
  10. Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code retrogamecoders.com - 13 comments 126 points
  11. ‘Brain rot’ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024 corp.oup.com - 93 comments 98 points
  12. Francis Crick’s “Central Dogma” was misunderstood www.asimov.press - 43 comments 85 points
  13. How to Study Mathematics - 2017 www.math.uh.edu - 32 comments 79 points
  14. When was the famous “sudo warning” introduced? - 2019 retrocomputing.stackexchange.com - 48 comments 75 points
  15. Category Theory in Programming docs.racket-lang.org - 42 comments 74 points
  16. A Science of Concurrent Programs - final draft lamport.azurewebsites.net - 3 comments 74 points
  17. Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified www.gamingonlinux.com - 42 comments 70 points
  18. Heaviside’s Operator Calculus - 2007 deadreckonings.com - 20 comments 70 points
  19. Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month www.bleepingcomputer.com - 103 comments 67 points
  20. Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays? news.ycombinator.com - 4 comments 64 points
  21. 1/0 = 0 - 2018 www.hillelwayne.com - 97 comments 60 points
  22. Gene behind orange fur in cats found at last www.science.org - 13 comments 60 points
  23. Show HN: OrioleDB Beta7 www.orioledb.com - 9 comments 60 points
  24. ICP-Brasil: Mis-issued certificate bugzilla.mozilla.org - 10 comments 59 points
  25. UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale www.eurogamer.net - 84 comments 58 points
  26. RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama kristoff.it - 71 comments 57 points
  27. Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech - Patrick Boyle - video www.youtube.com - 58 comments 57 points
  28. Demystifying Git Submodules www.cyberdemon.org - 26 comments 57 points
  29. Amazon Workers on Strike from Black Friday to Cyber Monday www.wfxrtv.com - 13 comments 56 points
  30. Building a distributed log using S3 - under 150 lines of Go avi.im - 30 comments 55 points