Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-14

  1. OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment www.mercurynews.com - 174 comments 492 points
  2. Test www.defense.gov - 118 comments 480 points
  3. Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit openai.com - 464 comments 450 points
  4. MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown github.com - 60 comments 242 points
  5. macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive www.shirtpocket.com - 103 comments 219 points
  6. McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis www.npr.org - 106 comments 205 points
  7. Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR ai.meta.com - 30 comments 205 points
  8. Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they’re made weborigami.org - 46 comments 178 points
  9. Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn? news.ycombinator.com - 113 comments 172 points
  10. Donald Bitzer has died computerhistory.org - 19 comments 169 points
  11. Show HN: Imposter Attack – Among Us-themed infrared game made with ESP32 blog.langworth.com - 25 comments 162 points
  12. Noninvasive imaging method can penetrate deeper into living tissue news.mit.edu - 18 comments 159 points
  13. Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise nypost.com - 263 comments 147 points
  14. People who are good at reading have different brains: study theconversation.com - 127 comments 125 points
  15. OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment old.reddit.com - 10 comments 116 points
  16. Show HN: @smoores/epub, a JavaScript library for working with EPUB publications www.npmjs.com - 39 comments 111 points
  17. Garbage collected smart pointers in Rust via concurrent cycle collection maplant.com - 57 comments 105 points
  18. Htmx 2.0.4 Released github.com - 45 comments 104 points
  19. My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash - 2010 matt.might.net - 33 comments 104 points
  20. Luon programming language github.com - 36 comments 103 points
  21. AT&T won’t upgrade millions of DSL users to fiber despite billions in subsidies www.techdirt.com - 83 comments 102 points
  22. AI Product Management www.deeplearning.ai - 40 comments 82 points
  23. Three mistakes from Dart/Flutter’s weak PRNG www.zellic.io - 74 comments 71 points
  24. Show HN: Rain hashes – well designed, simple and fast variable sized hashes github.com - 29 comments 70 points
  25. Mysterious tablet with unknown language unearthed in Georgia archaeologymag.com - 39 comments 67 points
  26. Show HN: I made the slowest, most expensive GPT ithy.com - 56 comments 62 points
  27. Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Scientists Warn www.the-scientist.com - 39 comments 60 points
  28. Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for drug use www.themarshallproject.org - 28 comments 59 points
  29. SCCS roach motel www.tuhs.org - 12 comments 52 points
  30. Intel built best budget GPU for 1440p gaming www.tomshardware.com - 14 comments 48 points