Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-11-27

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1. California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones www.latimes.com - 467 comments 349 points
2. Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows techcrunch.com - 175 comments 345 points
3. Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022) fasterthanli.me - 429 comments 320 points
4. A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021) medium.com - 114 comments 302 points
5. Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems news.ycombinator.com - 168 comments 274 points
6. Cybertruck's Many Recalls www.wired.com - 418 comments 271 points
7. Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal www.quantamagazine.org - 34 comments 207 points
8. Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation jpkoning.blogspot.com - 195 comments 206 points
9. DEA passenger searches halted after watchdog finds signs of rights violations www.nbcnews.com - 190 comments 190 points
10. LLVM-powered devirtualization blog.thalium.re - 6 comments 190 points
11. Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State www.technicianonline.com - 90 comments 183 points
12. Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll github.com - 56 comments 183 points
13. Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad www.economist.com - 362 comments 177 points
14. GenChess labs.google - 124 comments 176 points
15. Hacker in Snowflake extortions may be a U.S. soldier krebsonsecurity.com - 70 comments 163 points
16. ISPs say their "excellent customer service" is why users don't switch providers arstechnica.com - 95 comments 146 points
17. D-Link says it won't patch 60k older modems www.techradar.com - 84 comments 139 points
18. We can mine asteroids for space food www.cambridge.org - 153 comments 132 points
19. The industry structure of LLM makers calpaterson.com - 110 comments 122 points
20. A slave narrative resurfaces after nearly 170 years www.nytimes.com - 67 comments 122 points
21. ZetaOffice: LibreOffice in the Browser zetaoffice.net - 39 comments 120 points
22. Yes, it ‘looks like a duck,’ but carriers like the new USPS mail truck www.nytimes.com - 133 comments 117 points
23. I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either benhouston3d.com - 113 comments 115 points
24. Functional Programming Self-Affirmations norikitech.com - 98 comments 104 points
25. Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping switched to opt-in by default www.tomshardware.com - 43 comments 100 points
26. The Crime Messenger www.cbc.ca - 106 comments 94 points
27. Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito saasprices.net - 53 comments 92 points
28. Show HN: Silent Poems – Visual expression of unspoken thoughts silentpoems.net - 22 comments 86 points
29. USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark www.infoworld.com - 25 comments 84 points
30. 1B nested loop iterations benjdd.com - 74 comments 76 points