Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-12-16

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1. A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b) www.futilitycloset.com - 160 comments 518 points
2. Map of GitHub github.com - 53 comments 351 points
3. Dumb TVs deserve a comeback www.makeuseof.com - 293 comments 251 points
4. Crystal Ball Trading Game elmwealth.com - 146 comments 241 points
5. Ask HN: How do you find part time work? news.ycombinator.com - 95 comments 239 points
6. Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007) twitter.com - 153 comments 234 points
7. Show HN: SmartHome – An Adventure Game smarthome.steviep.xyz - 50 comments 200 points
8. SVC16: Simplest Virtual Computer github.com - 52 comments 173 points
9. In-Depth Ruby Concurrency: Navigating the Ruby Concurrency Landscape jpcamara.com - 17 comments 155 points
10. 25 Years of Dillo dillo-browser.github.io - 25 comments 126 points
11. Fractional Jobs – Job Board for Fractional Work www.fractionaljobs.io - 48 comments 115 points
12. XFCE 4.20 Released alexxcons.github.io - 41 comments 114 points
13. The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio leancrew.com - 22 comments 113 points
14. US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19 www.reuters.com - 102 comments 109 points
15. OpenERV www.openerv.ca - 16 comments 103 points
16. Starting a Business at 60: My Father's Story thoughts.jatintiwari.com - 45 comments 98 points
17. Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance railgunlabs.com - 38 comments 92 points
18. What's happening with founders over 40? justinjackson.ca - 66 comments 85 points
19. Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic Skills nataliewexler.substack.com - 90 comments 74 points
20. Maximum likelihood estimation and loss functions rish-01.github.io - 17 comments 73 points
21. Lost IBM OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 localizations: Looking for help finding and archiving news.ycombinator.com - 18 comments 64 points
22. The First 50M Prime Numbers (1975) [pdf] people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de - 25 comments 61 points
23. UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Treatment for Kids with Autism www.propublica.org - 18 comments 48 points
24. Cyphernetes: A Query Language for Kubernetes cyphernet.es - 15 comments 42 points
25. The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it (2022) unherd.com - 16 comments 40 points
26. Insiders say fraud in NY computer programming work dates back years www.timesunion.com - 11 comments 38 points
27. Tesla Cybertruck Becomes Extensively Corroded After Exposed to Magnet www.torquenews.com - 24 comments 27 points
28. The UK Now Has Its Own Illegal Rubberized Cybertruck on the Road www.wired.com - 23 comments 24 points
29. Proof of Concept showcasing WASM program access files outside node:wasi's dir github.com - 5 comments 24 points
30. Ask HN: Who Has an Interesting Job? news.ycombinator.com - 23 comments 20 points