Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-06-02

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1. Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago torrentfreak.com - 283 comments 333 points
2. ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically root.cern - 87 comments 328 points
3. Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license shakti.com - 208 comments 273 points
4. Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet chinamediaproject.org - 71 comments 203 points
5. Space secrets leak disclosure huggingface.co - 71 comments 186 points
6. Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime unit.nginx.org - 90 comments 163 points
7. Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Recall PC is now possible simonwillison.net - 20 comments 161 points
8. Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel www.futilitycloset.com - 61 comments 159 points
9. LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore allenpike.com - 98 comments 149 points
10. Ticketmaster confirms data breach with a SEC filing stackdiary.com - 65 comments 132 points
11. Ticketmaster confirms data hack which could affect 560M globally www.bbc.co.uk - 5 comments 129 points
12. Frances Hesselbein's leadership story (2022) davidepstein.substack.com - 15 comments 127 points
13. Lessons learned from 6 months of operating a tiny news archive hiandrewquinn.github.io - 37 comments 116 points
14. Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees twitter.com - 54 comments 110 points
15. Lisp: Icing or Cake? dthompson.us - 10 comments 102 points
16. Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks? www.urmc.rochester.edu - 126 comments 98 points
17. 84–24 84-24.org - 24 comments 94 points
18. X is justifiably slow (2022) zeux.io - 149 comments 90 points
19. The USAF's "Upside-Down Air Force" www.twz.com - 14 comments 79 points
20. Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in Their Residual Stream www.lesswrong.com - 18 comments 78 points
21. Seoul authorities find Shein products contain high levels of toxic chemicals www.lemonde.fr - 25 comments 72 points
22. Boeing's largest plant in 'panic mode' amid safety crisis, say workers and union www.theguardian.com - 82 comments 69 points
23. Helldivers 2 has caused over 20k Steam accounts to be banned www.videogamer.com - 109 comments 68 points
24. Loyalty at work no longer pays – and it's employers who are to blame www.businessinsider.com - 61 comments 68 points
25. How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part? www.cam.ac.uk - 31 comments 64 points
26. The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam www.wsj.com - 94 comments 62 points
27. Tell HN: Google's new summarize SMS just read another person's messages to me news.ycombinator.com - 24 comments 62 points
28. Show HN: Tiny Chrome extension to disable images to reduce distractions github.com - 48 comments 60 points
29. What autoconf got right leahneukirchen.org - 28 comments 59 points
30. CSS written in pure Go github.com - 26 comments 59 points