Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-06-22

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1. Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021) www.npr.org - 350 comments 521 points
2. Ladybird browser spreads its wings lwn.net - 290 comments 403 points
3. Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win arstechnica.com - 303 comments 364 points
4. My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore www.howtogeek.com - 251 comments 307 points
5. Innovation heroes are a sign of a dysfunctional organization steveblank.substack.com - 139 comments 282 points
6. Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design blog.jitx.com - 138 comments 281 points
7. Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code lemmy.world - 70 comments 252 points
8. Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments www.theolivepress.es - 315 comments 228 points
9. OpenAI Acquires Rockset openai.com - 73 comments 225 points
10. Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F www.sfchronicle.com - 225 comments 198 points
11. Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955 navyhistory.au - 51 comments 174 points
12. From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction arstechnica.com - 64 comments 168 points
13. CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux criu.org - 52 comments 145 points
14. Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion github.com - 28 comments 127 points
15. How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms? zachartrand.github.io - 53 comments 122 points
16. How the square root of 2 became a number www.quantamagazine.org - 84 comments 116 points
17. How to prolong lithium based batteries batteryuniversity.com - 86 comments 113 points
18. Show HN: Lady Deirdre 2 – Rust Framework for Compilers and LSP Servers github.com - 29 comments 104 points
19. Bessemer Venture Partners' Anti-Portfolio www.bvp.com - 41 comments 99 points
20. Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? mathstodon.xyz - 91 comments 86 points
21. Show HN: High-frequency trading and market-making backtesting tool with examples github.com - 31 comments 86 points
22. Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns www.bloomberg.com - 150 comments 85 points
23. Google Search is indexing has halted twitter.com - 23 comments 81 points
24. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] gwern.net - 33 comments 78 points
25. Stanford student collects her Master's degree at the age of 105 ed.stanford.edu - 27 comments 76 points
26. Climate Zones pudding.cool - 25 comments 75 points
27. More evidence against the "ecocide" theory of Easter Island arstechnica.com - 25 comments 70 points
28. Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge mattsclancy.substack.com - 3 comments 70 points
29. FDA, Industry Actions End Sales of PFAS Used in Food Packaging www.fda.gov - 31 comments 68 points
30. Migrating from Java 8 to Java 17: A Comprehensive Guide to New Features igorstechnoclub.com - 58 comments 64 points