Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-25

  1. macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time github.com - 137 comments 576 points
  2. 38th Chaos Communication Congress events.ccc.de - 172 comments 314 points
  3. Merry Christmas Everyone news.ycombinator.com - 76 comments 248 points
  4. Tokyo released point cloud data of the entire city for free twitter.com - 34 comments 240 points
  5. Intel shareholders file case asking ex CEO, CFO to return 3 years of salary www.cfodive.com - 109 comments 204 points
  6. Why making friends as an adult is harder www.theestablished.com - 177 comments 145 points
  7. Trying out QvQ – Qwen’s new visual reasoning model simonwillison.net - 36 comments 140 points
  8. Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The story of EgyptAir flight 804 admiralcloudberg.medium.com - 61 comments 138 points
  9. T sin - t’ ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013) community.wolfram.com - 9 comments 131 points
  10. Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses torrentfreak.com - 140 comments 130 points
  11. JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess byteofdev.com - 73 comments 123 points
  12. Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours www.theguardian.com - 107 comments 122 points
  13. AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment thezvi.substack.com - 102 comments 98 points
  14. Gordon Mah Ung has died www.pcworld.com - 14 comments 94 points
  15. Cerebrum: Simulate and infer synaptic connectivity in large-scale brain networks svbrain.xyz - 66 comments 87 points
  16. How did human butts evolve to look that way? massivesci.com - 52 comments 86 points
  17. Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI www.theregister.com - 87 comments 84 points
  18. Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory www.abortretry.fail - 26 comments 72 points
  19. Electric cars could last much longer than you think www.wired.com - 132 comments 71 points
  20. In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline www.bostonglobe.com - 85 comments 69 points
  21. National Cryptologic Museum - NSA/CSS New Temporary Exhibit on Project Stargate www.nsa.gov - 30 comments 67 points
  22. New research suggests that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer www.theatlantic.com - 119 comments 62 points
  23. American Airlines is boarding flights again after nationwide groundstop www.cnn.com - 51 comments 58 points
  24. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog nelson.cloud - 18 comments 56 points
  25. CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion blurbusters.com - 7 comments 47 points
  26. Ask HN: Why isn’t Alex Krizhevsky as famous as Ilya Sutskever or G.Hinton? news.ycombinator.com - 17 comments 44 points
  27. Threads of God www.atlasobscura.com - 44 comments 43 points
  28. The chocolate of the future will have less cocoa or none at all www.swissinfo.ch - 36 comments 40 points
  29. Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch www.fixbrowser.org - 11 comments 40 points
  30. Operational PGP gist.github.com - 16 comments 38 points