Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-30

  1. Jimmy Carter has died www.washingtonpost.com - 537 comments 979 points
  2. We’ve not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure - video media.ccc.de - 60 comments 368 points
  3. How I run LLMs locally abishekmuthian.com - 190 comments 304 points
  4. I was wrong about the ethics crisis cacm.acm.org - 326 comments 235 points
  5. Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU? mikegalsworthy.substack.com - 404 comments 226 points
  6. How China turns members of its diaspora into spies www.economist.com - 199 comments 219 points
  7. Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold www.cbc.ca - 149 comments 201 points
  8. Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems? www.scottrlarson.com - 139 comments 185 points
  9. Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting scrtwpns.com - 36 comments 178 points
  10. The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024 www.pcmag.com - 178 comments 171 points
  11. Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS www.obdev.at - 94 comments 165 points
  12. Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again chrisholdgraf.com - 298 comments 157 points
  13. BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective - video media.ccc.de - 163 comments 154 points
  14. OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’ daringfireball.net - 146 comments 152 points
  15. The Zombocom Problem newsletter.squishy.computer - 30 comments 128 points
  16. Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes www.npr.org - 71 comments 123 points
  17. BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt - 2021 ariadne.space - 91 comments 118 points
  18. The Cody Computer www.codycomputer.org - 10 comments 104 points
  19. Why I don’t do Domain Driven Design - 2018 www.tonymarston.net - 60 comments 103 points
  20. Notes on China www.dwarkeshpatel.com - 143 comments 99 points
  21. Breaking NATO Radio Encryption - video media.ccc.de - 21 comments 96 points
  22. From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS - video media.ccc.de - 11 comments 92 points
  23. Stripe V2 brandur.org - 39 comments 88 points
  24. Show HN: Chorus, a Mac app that lets you chat with a bunch of AIs at once melty.sh - 25 comments 71 points
  25. Category Theory Illustrated abuseofnotation.github.io - 2 comments 69 points
  26. Short-term rentals are hollowing out communities with loose restrictions nextcity.org - 123 comments 58 points
  27. We fine-tuned Llama and got 4.2x Sonnet 3.5 accuracy for code generation finecodex.com - 3 comments 55 points
  28. Israel built an ‘AI factory’ for war. It unleashed it in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com - 37 comments 52 points
  29. America in Two Headlines www.kenklippenstein.com - 39 comments 50 points
  30. Om Malik – The Story of Stent om.co - 4 comments 46 points