Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-05-28

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1. Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero blog.jgc.org - 143 comments 659 points
2. Big data is dead (2023) motherduck.com - 415 comments 518 points
3. Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login” ntietz.com - 270 comments 496 points
4. The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack mastodon.archive.org - 149 comments 359 points
5. Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens? blog.ploetzli.ch - 266 comments 350 points
6. Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes www.solipsys.co.uk - 167 comments 328 points
7. A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers cosmosmagazine.com - 172 comments 272 points
8. Priced out of home ownership www.bbc.co.uk - 710 comments 257 points
9. Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene github.com - 36 comments 245 points
10. Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems arxiv.org - 78 comments 236 points
11. Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma www.lunduniversity.lu.se - 149 comments 181 points
12. My new PSU burns out – I fix it, and torture it by cracking water tomscii.sig7.se - 74 comments 166 points
13. WP21 ma.tt - 46 comments 164 points
14. More Itertools more-itertools.readthedocs.io - 35 comments 164 points
15. Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 blog.benjojo.co.uk - 209 comments 161 points
16. xAI announces series B funding round of $6B x.ai - 251 comments 158 points
17. Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack mastodon.archive.org - 2 comments 137 points
18. Helix-gpui: A simple GUI for the Helix editor github.com - 55 comments 134 points
19. British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed www.bbc.co.uk - 98 comments 127 points
20. The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City americanaffairsjournal.org - 66 comments 121 points
21. Notepad Tab notepadtab.com - 80 comments 108 points
22. Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers lima-vm.io - 35 comments 101 points
23. Grokked Transformers Are Implicit Reasoners arxiv.org - 14 comments 99 points
24. Yerba mate, from Paraguay to Syria globalvoices.org - 64 comments 97 points
25. Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless playpermissionless.substack.com - 110 comments 96 points
26. Show HN: Use Go's HTML/template to write React-like code news.ycombinator.com - 91 comments 92 points
27. Turning psychiatric labels into identities www.newyorker.com - 77 comments 90 points
28. Cobalt – lightweight HTML5 application container from YouTube developers.google.com - 18 comments 89 points
29. GTFL – A Graphical Terminal for Common Lisp www.martin-loetzsch.de - 8 comments 87 points
30. How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations? www.wired.com - 392 comments 82 points