Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-17

  1. Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? - 2022 danluu.com - 468 comments 563 points
  2. Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 - day before Online Safety Act is enforced www.lfgss.com - 273 comments 477 points
  3. Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant github.com - 247 comments 460 points
  4. Veo 2: Our video generation model deepmind.google - 184 comments 379 points
  5. Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far 9to5mac.com - 358 comments 317 points
  6. Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? news.ycombinator.com - 614 comments 305 points
  7. Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway apnews.com - 91 comments 279 points
  8. Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead - 2022 opsbros.com - 124 comments 242 points
  9. In Search of a Faster SQLite avi.im - 105 comments 239 points
  10. What did Ada Lovelace’s program actually do? - 2018 twobithistory.org - 81 comments 236 points
  11. Modelica modelica.org - 72 comments 233 points
  12. Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API go.dev - 88 comments 215 points
  13. “Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed” twitter.com - 157 comments 178 points
  14. UK’s Online Safety Act comes into force www.ofcom.org.uk - 213 comments 155 points
  15. Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo waymo.com - 65 comments 149 points
  16. Using Guile for Emacs lwn.net - 44 comments 133 points
  17. Always go to the funeral - 2005 www.npr.org - 74 comments 130 points
  18. Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale solmaz.io - 181 comments 126 points
  19. Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work www.theregister.com - 59 comments 125 points
  20. Using Drop for safety in Rust v5.chriskrycho.com - 23 comments 106 points
  21. Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production? news.ycombinator.com - 64 comments 92 points
  22. The Qualcomm DSP Driver – Unexpectedly excavating an exploit googleprojectzero.blogspot.com - 24 comments 89 points
  23. Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide? spectrum.ieee.org - 95 comments 86 points
  24. Pelicans on a bicycle simonwillison.net - 53 comments 84 points
  25. Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS words.filippo.io - 10 comments 82 points
  26. To Log into WordPress, You Now Have to Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good www.404media.co - 119 comments 79 points
  27. Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop op-co.de - 15 comments 79 points
  28. Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS sailor.li - 19 comments 69 points
  29. The Year of McDonald’s www.thefp.com - 85 comments 62 points
  30. The higher fertility of TSMC semiconductor workers www.boomcampaign.org - 55 comments 62 points