Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-05-17

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1. VCs aren’t your friends www.openvc.app - 352 comments 519 points
2. A forged Apple employee badge cabel.com - 145 comments 421 points
3. Llama 3 implemented in pure NumPy docs.likejazz.com - 46 comments 401 points
4. Slack AI Training with Customer Data slack.com - 196 comments 393 points
5. Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code about.winamp.com - 146 comments 289 points
6. 100 Exercises to Learn Rust rust-exercises.com - 49 comments 289 points
7. D3 in Depth www.d3indepth.com - 70 comments 281 points
8. Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Killed Wireless Price Competition in U.S. www.techdirt.com - 233 comments 269 points
9. Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile www.nature.com - 324 comments 264 points
10. Students invent quieter leaf blower hub.jhu.edu - 393 comments 262 points
11. ChatGPT-4o vs. Math www.sabrina.dev - 147 comments 259 points
12. What's New in Neovim 0.10 gpanders.com - 110 comments 256 points
13. *F – A Proof-Oriented Programming Language** www.fstar-lang.org - 80 comments 212 points
14. I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search aftermath.site - 193 comments 195 points
15. Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg www.phoronix.com - 39 comments 182 points
16. Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT openai.com - 115 comments 172 points
17. Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com - 147 comments 144 points
18. The Downfall of DeviantArt slate.com - 83 comments 141 points
19. EU opens child safety probes of Facebook and Instagram, citing addictive design techcrunch.com - 94 comments 139 points
20. Port 666 is officially registered to Doom www.ibiblio.org - 52 comments 135 points
21. Build WebGPU apps with PlayCanvas blog.playcanvas.com - 38 comments 132 points
22. Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language easel.hackclub.com - 54 comments 131 points
23. A long list of (advanced) JavaScript questions, and their explanations github.com - 32 comments 131 points
24. The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story www.nature.com - 88 comments 126 points
25. Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009 arstechnica.com - 9 comments 122 points
26. Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow" www.railtarget.eu - 123 comments 120 points
27. Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications future.mozilla.org - 23 comments 119 points
28. Why Bad CEOs Fear Remote Work (2021) scottberkun.com - 115 comments 112 points
29. Online censorship's institutional power madattheinternet.substack.com - 48 comments 112 points
30. Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it www.the-express.com - 155 comments 110 points