Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-23

  1. Why we use our own hardware www.fastmail.com - 444 comments 807 points
  2. GPT-5 is behind schedule www.wsj.com - 555 comments 335 points
  3. Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ corelatus.com - 96 comments 310 points
  4. How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster avi.im - 40 comments 296 points
  5. ‘United Healthcare’ using DMCA against Luigi Mangione images abovethelaw.com - 173 comments 283 points
  6. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - 1923 poets.org - 70 comments 248 points
  7. Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers twtxt.readthedocs.io - 55 comments 190 points
  8. One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch www.npr.org - 79 comments 160 points
  9. The risk of cancer fades past the age of 80 www.sciencealert.com - 44 comments 160 points
  10. CUDA Moat Still Alive semianalysis.com - 83 comments 131 points
  11. Classified fighter jet specs leaked on War Thunder forums ukdefencejournal.org.uk - 48 comments 131 points
  12. New Google Sheet on half of 13.6" MacBook Air screen is fully covered by popups imgur.com - 53 comments 128 points
  13. Murder Mystery: GCC builds failing after sbuild refactoring www.linux.it - 40 comments 126 points
  14. CodeMic: A new way to talk about code codemic.io - 45 comments 120 points
  15. The Jujutsu version control system neugierig.org - 44 comments 120 points
  16. German watchdog orders Sam Altman’s biometric ID project World to delete data www.euronews.com - 47 comments 117 points
  17. Long Term Software Development berthub.eu - 45 comments 112 points
  18. Ask HN: Predictions for 2025? news.ycombinator.com - 180 comments 104 points
  19. One surprising psychosis treatment that works: Learning to live with the voices www.wsj.com - 107 comments 103 points
  20. ChatGPT O3 Preview Announcement openai.com - 30 comments 79 points
  21. MacKenzie Scott donates over $2B in 2024 to 199 organizations yieldgiving.com - 89 comments 76 points
  22. Show HN: NoSQL, but it’s SQLite gist.github.com - 35 comments 72 points
  23. Something is wrong on the Internet www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com - 73 comments 66 points
  24. Tokenisation Is NP-Complete arxiv.org - 8 comments 62 points
  25. Fighting spam with Haskell at Meta - 2015 engineering.fb.com - 27 comments 61 points
  26. Fish has been ported to Rust github.com - 0 comments 58 points
  27. Apple must ensure interoperability of iPhone with rivals, says EU www.euronews.com - 95 comments 55 points
  28. Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls news.ycombinator.com - 53 comments 52 points
  29. Being a developer in the age of reasoning AI near.tl - 32 comments 52 points
  30. The Riddle of Luigi Mangione www.gurwinder.blog - 86 comments 50 points