Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-13

1. Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history lichess.org - 378 comments 928 points
2. Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History www.oldmapsonline.org - 133 comments 832 points
3. Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths www.bbc.com - 667 comments 390 points
4. BlenderGPT www.blendergpt.org - 165 comments 378 points
5. Android XR blog.google - 255 comments 296 points
6. Fermat’s Last Theorem – how it’s going xenaproject.wordpress.com - 134 comments 290 points
7. Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling quantus.finance - 48 comments 233 points
8. Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers www.tomshardware.com - 90 comments 180 points
9. Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say techcrunch.com - 56 comments 177 points
10. Parkinson’s Law: It’s real, so use it theengineeringmanager.substack.com - 124 comments 172 points
11. “Rules” that terminal programs follow jvns.ca - 88 comments 165 points
12. Show HN: Kubernetes Spec Explorer kubespec.dev - 23 comments 163 points
13. The FDA Hasn’t Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw www.propublica.org - 79 comments 146 points
14. Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code - 2016 kennyballou.com - 60 comments 126 points
15. A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils nationalpost.com - 137 comments 120 points
16. A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal spectrum.ieee.org - 17 comments 118 points
17. Programming Language Memory Models - 2021 research.swtch.com - 21 comments 94 points
18. Doctor Who theme: Ron Grainer - composer Delia Derbyshire (musician, arranger) www.nfsa.gov.au - 50 comments 91 points
19. Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way - 2013 blog.invisiblethings.org - 31 comments 90 points
20. Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’: A Complete Analysis thewallanalysis.com - 82 comments 87 points
21. Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software www.souzatharsis.com - 13 comments 87 points
22. The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate - 2023 www.abortretry.fail - 58 comments 84 points
23. A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte www.science.org - 37 comments 82 points
24. The humble for loop in Rust blog.startifact.com - 43 comments 81 points
25. AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li has a vision for computer vision spectrum.ieee.org - 50 comments 73 points
26. Bitbanging 1D Reversible Automata richiejp.com - 11 comments 70 points
27. Run Database in GitHub Actions, Persisting Data to S3, and Access It Publicly wesql.io - 45 comments 69 points
28. Making “social” social again: Announcing Mozi ev.medium.com - 61 comments 60 points
29. Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds arstechnica.com - 2 comments 60 points
30. Show HN: Bring-your-own-key browser extension for summarizing HN posts with LLMs github.com - 28 comments 59 points