Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-12-11

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1. From where I left antirez.com - 300 comments 871 points
2. The Google Willow Thing scottaaronson.blog - 250 comments 548 points
3. Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios news.ycombinator.com - 361 comments 345 points
4. Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen old.reddit.com - 157 comments 313 points
5. Firefox removes "do not track" feature support windowsreport.com - 227 comments 312 points
6. Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust turso.tech - 196 comments 311 points
7. GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house www.cnbc.com - 312 comments 242 points
8. U.S. math scores drop on major international test www.chalkbeat.org - 444 comments 240 points
9. Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job sibervepunk.com - 75 comments 231 points
10. Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space arxiv.org - 64 comments 217 points
11. AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism www.opb.org - 135 comments 202 points
12. WPEngine, Inc. vs. Automattic– Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction www.courtlistener.com - 73 comments 200 points
13. The Depths of Wikipedians asteriskmag.com - 54 comments 167 points
14. Canvas openai.com - 81 comments 153 points
15. AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware www.surrey.ac.uk - 31 comments 137 points
16. Devin is now generally available www.cognition.ai - 118 comments 132 points
17. Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS supabase.com - 38 comments 131 points
18. AMD's trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack arstechnica.com - 31 comments 131 points
19. BareMetal OS github.com - 39 comments 123 points
20. Colour in the Middle Ages www.medievalists.net - 74 comments 121 points
21. Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release electric-sql.com - 22 comments 120 points
22. Neuroplasticity in F16 fighter jet pilots pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - 39 comments 117 points
23. Alzheimer's study shows ketone bodies help clear misfolded proteins www.genengnews.com - 51 comments 109 points
24. Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency says www.theguardian.com - 31 comments 108 points
25. Boltzmann brain en.wikipedia.org - 80 comments 102 points
26. From Unemployment to Lisp: Running GPT-2 on a Teen's Deep Learning Compiler github.com - 3 comments 100 points
27. Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die ideaharbor.xyz - 69 comments 95 points
28. The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager zaidesanton.substack.com - 59 comments 85 points
29. Y Combinator Funded AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Sparks Outrage gizmodo.com - 45 comments 83 points
30. The Most Expensive Eating Disorder desmolysium.com - 59 comments 79 points