Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-06-04

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1. How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? physics.stackexchange.com - 160 comments 898 points
2. I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL awesomekling.substack.com - 212 comments 746 points
3. Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life toaster.llc - 170 comments 441 points
4. Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget popovicu.com - 63 comments 386 points
5. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) news.ycombinator.com - 309 comments 324 points
6. Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor www.timestored.com - 84 comments 304 points
7. EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links www.patrick-breyer.de - 302 comments 293 points
8. FBI Raids Big Corporate Landlord over Nationwide Rent Hikes www.thebignewsletter.com - 196 comments 209 points
9. If English was written like Chinese (1999) zompist.com - 159 comments 205 points
10. Why YC went to DC www.ycombinator.com - 273 comments 189 points
11. DuckDB 1.0.0 duckdb.org - 24 comments 165 points
12. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024) news.ycombinator.com - 359 comments 163 points
13. Oldest largest German Minecraft server shut down and open sourced everything github.com - 37 comments 157 points
14. Diffusion on Syntax Trees for Program Synthesis tree-diffusion.github.io - 37 comments 153 points
15. Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015) jvns.ca - 119 comments 150 points
16. Go east from Seattle finmoorhouse.com - 153 comments 147 points
17. What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? (2023) rootsofprogress.org - 131 comments 144 points
18. Sam Altman, Lately oftheclock.com - 92 comments 140 points
19. Auto-brewery syndrome in a 50-year-old woman www.cmaj.ca - 134 comments 138 points
20. Fusion tech finds geothermal energy application spectrum.ieee.org - 122 comments 134 points
21. Mamba-2 – State Space Duality tridao.me - 20 comments 128 points
22. Posthog – open-source analytics and UX research tool github.com - 30 comments 115 points
23. Qimgv – Fast, simple image viewer github.com - 38 comments 110 points
24. Crooks threaten to leak 3B personal records 'stolen from background check firm' www.theregister.com - 82 comments 109 points
25. Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language tesk.page - 129 comments 108 points
26. Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle www.aisnakeoil.com - 90 comments 101 points
27. New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement bgr.com - 70 comments 101 points
28. Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager brioche.dev - 39 comments 89 points
29. Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intelligence ashgw.me - 139 comments 86 points
30. Cirkoban: Sokoban meets cellular automata written in Scheme spritely.institute - 13 comments 86 points