Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-27

  1. Ghostty 1.0 ghostty.org - 348 comments 1266 points
  2. OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly sherwood.news - 125 comments 208 points
  3. Lua Is So Underrated nflatrea.bearblog.dev - 204 comments 205 points
  4. Write Your Own Virtual Machine - 2022 www.jmeiners.com - 36 comments 188 points
  5. A Tour of WebAuthn www.imperialviolet.org - 69 comments 182 points
  6. A Simple ELF 4zm.org - 41 comments 178 points
  7. Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law fedscoop.com - 52 comments 173 points
  8. The trap of “I am not an extrovert” orkohunter.net - 215 comments 129 points
  9. Sub-pixel distance transform - 2023 acko.net - 16 comments 126 points
  10. Write a Shell in C - 2015 brennan.io - 8 comments 110 points
  11. The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something blog.codingconfessions.com - 5 comments 107 points
  12. Show HN: I’ve made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU github.com - 31 comments 105 points
  13. The semver trick - 2019 github.com - 39 comments 104 points
  14. Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down? news.ycombinator.com - 91 comments 92 points
  15. My failed attempt at AGI on the Tokio Runtime www.christo.sh - 28 comments 88 points
  16. Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia suffers damage www.euronews.com - 86 comments 87 points
  17. DeepSeek-V3 github.com - 29 comments 83 points
  18. Simulating C. elegans brain, body and environment interactions www.nature.com - 18 comments 65 points
  19. Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck+ den.dev - 17 comments 61 points
  20. Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato arcan-fe.com - 7 comments 61 points
  21. A Tongue-in-Cheek Look Back at Broderbund’s ‘The Print Shop’ theprintshop.club - 34 comments 58 points
  22. Azerbaijani airline plane shot down by Russia anewz.tv - 24 comments 55 points
  23. Ocean Carbon Removal: Captura’s marine carbon capture explained spectrum.ieee.org - 53 comments 54 points
  24. Design Space for Code Search Query ast-grep.github.io - 9 comments 54 points
  25. Gondwanaland: The search for a land before - human time www.australiangeographic.com.au - 33 comments 50 points
  26. Netflix sues Broadcom’s VMware over US virtual machine patents www.reuters.com - 4 comments 50 points
  27. Ask HN: How do you maintain personal annotations for code you don’t control? news.ycombinator.com - 41 comments 46 points
  28. RIP W3C’s HTML working group 1994-2024 www.w3.org - 17 comments 45 points
  29. Cull Front: A new front end generator for Htmx and AlpineJS cullfront.com - 7 comments 44 points
  30. DeepSeek v3 beats Claude sonnet 3.5 and way cheaper huggingface.co - 7 comments 41 points