Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-24

  1. What happened to the world’s largest tube TV? - video www.youtube.com - 211 comments 426 points
  2. Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells medicalxpress.com - 283 comments 377 points
  3. Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician xenaproject.wordpress.com - 256 comments 304 points
  4. My Colleague Julius ploum.net - 43 comments 259 points
  5. Fogus: Things and Stuff of 2024 blog.fogus.me - 32 comments 229 points
  6. C++ is an absolute blast learncodethehardway.com - 227 comments 219 points
  7. Xerox to acquire Lexmark newsroom.lexmark.com - 193 comments 212 points
  8. Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island github.com - 22 comments 167 points
  9. Show HN: Keypub.sh – OAuth for the terminal using SSH keys keypub.sh - 51 comments 158 points
  10. Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access www.goodfire.ai - 28 comments 157 points
  11. Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference - 2023 blog.mlc.ai - 85 comments 145 points
  12. Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs? seangeiger.substack.com - 50 comments 129 points
  13. Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical blog.pgvecto.rs - 47 comments 124 points
  14. Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32 www.digikey.com - 32 comments 122 points
  15. I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections webextension.net - 57 comments 118 points
  16. The intricacies of implementing memoization in Ruby denisdefreyne.com - 61 comments 114 points
  17. Nordstrom family to take company private www.bloomberg.com - 85 comments 98 points
  18. Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index arstechnica.com - 76 comments 95 points
  19. Offline Reinforcement Learning for LLM Multi-Step Reasoning arxiv.org - 8 comments 95 points
  20. Narrative Jailbreaking for Fun and Profit interconnected.org - 21 comments 81 points
  21. Parsing millions of URLs per Second - 2023 onlinelibrary.wiley.com - 15 comments 81 points
  22. Supernovae Evidence for Foundational Change to Cosmological Models arxiv.org - 44 comments 76 points
  23. llms.txt directory directory.llmstxt.cloud - 41 comments 73 points
  24. Phrack 72 “40th Anniversary Edition” Call for Papers phrack.org - 7 comments 72 points
  25. The number pi has an evil twin mathstodon.xyz - 5 comments 68 points
  26. A New Logo for Perl perladvent.org - 61 comments 60 points
  27. A Life-Saving Checklist - 2007 www.newyorker.com - 29 comments 59 points
  28. Demystifying Debuggers, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Running Program www.rfleury.com - 10 comments 59 points
  29. Unitree Robot Off-Road www.youtube.com - 20 comments 56 points
  30. EU bans BPA in food materials food.ec.europa.eu - 8 comments 56 points