Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-12-31

  1. Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died news.ycombinator.com - 75 comments 880 points
  2. AI companies cause most of traffic on forums pod.geraspora.de - 278 comments 407 points
  3. ‘Obelisks’: New class of life has been found in human digestive system www.sciencealert.com - 120 comments 384 points
  4. Curl-Impersonate github.com - 96 comments 382 points
  5. Fun facts about SQLite avi.im - 137 comments 326 points
  6. Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security arstechnica.com - 313 comments 316 points
  7. I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps arstechnica.com - 75 comments 240 points
  8. YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email arstechnica.com - 88 comments 232 points
  9. Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11 noinitrd.github.io - 138 comments 228 points
  10. US credit card defaults jump to highest level since 2010 www.ft.com - 152 comments 183 points
  11. MiceWine – run Windows applications and games on Android smartphones github.com - 55 comments 178 points
  12. Insurers rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts www.propublica.org - 233 comments 166 points
  13. “A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy - 1921 - pdf www.gutenberg.org - 35 comments 164 points
  14. Orbit by Mozilla orbitbymozilla.com - 163 comments 160 points
  15. Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy techcrunch.com - 152 comments 149 points
  16. Database mocks are not worth it www.shayon.dev - 208 comments 142 points
  17. VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data twitter.com - 130 comments 138 points
  18. FTC orders ‘gun detection’ tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness www.techdirt.com - 119 comments 138 points
  19. Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models bellard.org - 51 comments 132 points
  20. I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig jonot.me - 40 comments 129 points
  21. China to Build Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor in 2025 spectrum.ieee.org - 76 comments 115 points
  22. LineageOS 22 Released lineageos.org - 34 comments 112 points
  23. More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in www.theregister.com - 65 comments 111 points
  24. Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down techcrunch.com - 72 comments 101 points
  25. Beyond BLE: Cracking Open the Black-Box of RF Microcontrollers - video media.ccc.de - 15 comments 101 points
  26. Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought? aipapersacademy.com - 23 comments 100 points
  27. A simple way to explore data through a Tableau-like UI directly in your data app github.com - 10 comments 99 points
  28. Apple M5 could ditch unified memory architecture for split CPU and GPU designs www.notebookcheck.net - 64 comments 98 points
  29. Floridians have no right to bodies of water ‘free of pollution,’ court rules floridaphoenix.com - 95 comments 94 points
  30. Limits to Growth - 1972 bit-player.org - 78 comments 94 points