Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-12-17

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1. Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? (2022) danluu.com - 466 comments 562 points
2. Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced) www.lfgss.com - 271 comments 473 points
3. Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant github.com - 247 comments 457 points
4. Veo 2: Our video generation model deepmind.google - 184 comments 377 points
5. Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far 9to5mac.com - 358 comments 317 points
6. Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? news.ycombinator.com - 611 comments 305 points
7. Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway apnews.com - 90 comments 278 points
8. Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022) opsbros.com - 124 comments 242 points
9. In Search of a Faster SQLite avi.im - 105 comments 239 points
10. What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018) twobithistory.org - 81 comments 236 points
11. Modelica modelica.org - 72 comments 231 points
12. Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API go.dev - 87 comments 215 points
13. "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed" twitter.com - 157 comments 178 points
14. UK's Online Safety Act comes into force www.ofcom.org.uk - 213 comments 155 points
15. Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo waymo.com - 63 comments 147 points
16. Using Guile for Emacs lwn.net - 44 comments 133 points
17. Always go to the funeral (2005) www.npr.org - 71 comments 130 points
18. Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale solmaz.io - 180 comments 126 points
19. Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work www.theregister.com - 59 comments 125 points
20. Using Drop for safety in Rust v5.chriskrycho.com - 23 comments 106 points
21. Ask HN: Examples of agentic LLM systems in production? news.ycombinator.com - 64 comments 92 points
22. The Qualcomm DSP Driver – Unexpectedly excavating an exploit googleprojectzero.blogspot.com - 24 comments 89 points
23. Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide? spectrum.ieee.org - 95 comments 86 points
24. Pelicans on a bicycle simonwillison.net - 53 comments 84 points
25. Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS words.filippo.io - 10 comments 82 points
26. To Log into WordPress, You Now Have to Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good www.404media.co - 119 comments 79 points
27. Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop op-co.de - 15 comments 79 points
28. Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS sailor.li - 19 comments 69 points
29. The Year of McDonald's www.thefp.com - 85 comments 62 points
30. The higher fertility of TSMC semiconductor workers www.boomcampaign.org - 55 comments 62 points