Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-28

  1. Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers www.wsj.com - 388 comments 537 points
  2. They have not been trained for this www.ccc.de - 98 comments 513 points
  3. Does current AI represent a dead end? www.bcs.org - 915 comments 488 points
  4. Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders www.lucaiaconistewart.com - 71 comments 440 points
  5. Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods www.plasticlist.org - 130 comments 386 points
  6. Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor github.com - 35 comments 319 points
  7. Why OpenAI’s Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission openai.com - 292 comments 257 points
  8. Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it www.theverge.com - 179 comments 237 points
  9. Bench accounting services shutting down bench.co - 232 comments 229 points
  10. VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles cyberinsider.com - 185 comments 191 points
  11. Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don’t Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy sfist.com - 109 comments 188 points
  12. Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram gitdiagram.com - 54 comments 169 points
  13. Show HN: I send myself automated emails to practice Dutch github.com - 91 comments 149 points
  14. Building AI Products–Part I: Back-End Architecture philcalcado.com - 15 comments 149 points
  15. Show HN: I made a web app to bring children’s drawings to life doodledreams.cc - 48 comments 138 points
  16. TSMC’s Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips spectrum.ieee.org - 47 comments 134 points
  17. Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 - video media.ccc.de - 38 comments 134 points
  18. The new science of controlling lucid dreams www.scientificamerican.com - 88 comments 131 points
  19. Spotify is full of AI music www.fastcompany.com - 123 comments 129 points
  20. Homebrew Batteries www.hanssummers.com - 13 comments 118 points
  21. Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland ‘was loaded with spying equipment’ www.lloydslist.com - 8 comments 106 points
  22. Implementing SM-2 in Rust borretti.me - 19 comments 99 points
  23. DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years divestos.org - 60 comments 93 points
  24. The paper passport’s days are numbered www.wired.com - 183 comments 92 points
  25. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun blogs.nasa.gov - 16 comments 88 points
  26. Complain and Propose - 2014 tidyfirst.substack.com - 28 comments 79 points
  27. S Korean crypto-boss Do Kwon to be extradited to US www.bbc.com - 44 comments 76 points
  28. Denmark Offers to Buy USA - 2019 www.newyorker.com - 40 comments 74 points
  29. What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can’t? www.seangoedecke.com - 81 comments 72 points
  30. How to Create HTML/ZIP/PNG Polyglot Files gildas-lormeau.github.io - 14 comments 66 points