Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-06-16

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1. Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent rknight.me - 462 comments 527 points
2. ESASky sky.esa.int - 40 comments 279 points
3. Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo tomverbeure.github.io - 332 comments 241 points
4. Just Enough Software Architecture www.georgefairbanks.com - 84 comments 227 points
5. Show HN: We Made The World's Smallest and Cheapest Network Switch docs.murexrobotics.com - 59 comments 192 points
6. You've Read Your Last Free Article, Such Is the Nature of Mortality www.mcsweeneys.net - 89 comments 185 points
7. Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js github.com - 23 comments 176 points
8. Impulse Tracker source code now available on GitHub github.com - 32 comments 175 points
9. A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research thoughtforms.life - 55 comments 171 points
10. Google, Cloudflare and Cisco will poison DNS to stop piracy block circumvention torrentfreak.com - 102 comments 166 points
11. Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records spectrum.ieee.org - 208 comments 164 points
12. Sans Bullshit Sans (2015) www.sansbullshitsans.com - 34 comments 146 points
13. Address Sanitizer Internals blog.gistre.epita.fr - 13 comments 124 points
14. SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined sqlite.org - 64 comments 117 points
15. Reverse engineering a restaurant pager system k3xec.com - 12 comments 116 points
16. AI for math resources, and erdosproblems.com terrytao.wordpress.com - 22 comments 115 points
17. 'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors www.theguardian.com - 146 comments 109 points
18. Ollama v0.1.45 github.com - 56 comments 100 points
19. Django SQLite Production Config blog.pecar.me - 39 comments 100 points
20. Perfectionism is optimizing at the wrong scale www.autodidacts.io - 37 comments 96 points
21. Southwest flight came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean www.cnn.com - 52 comments 87 points
22. A collection of 2,299 blogs about every topic ooh.directory - 11 comments 86 points
23. Ventoy: Remove BLOBs from the Source Tree github.com - 34 comments 85 points
24. Information Security: "We Can Do It, We Just Choose Not To" www.hezmatt.org - 78 comments 84 points
25. Good code is rarely read www.alexmolas.com - 95 comments 82 points
26. Can language models serve as text-based world simulators? arxiv.org - 57 comments 81 points
27. Introduction to the Odin Programming Language zylinski.se - 45 comments 80 points
28. Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland) github.com - 36 comments 79 points
29. Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County ktla.com - 67 comments 75 points
30. The state of carbon dioxide removal www.stateofcdr.org - 98 comments 72 points