Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-06-24

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1. I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers dropofahat.zone - 297 comments 995 points
2. The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets www.righto.com - 280 comments 555 points
3. Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM fuglede.github.io - 114 comments 420 points
4. Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) rhodesmill.org - 143 comments 348 points
5. I've stopped using box plots (2021) nightingaledvs.com - 203 comments 324 points
6. Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC quic.video - 170 comments 176 points
7. Traffic engineers build roads relying on outdated research, faulty data theconversation.com - 202 comments 163 points
8. Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4 grski.pl - 196 comments 152 points
9. LINQPad – The .NET Programmer's Playground www.linqpad.net - 48 comments 147 points
10. The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive www.sciencealert.com - 56 comments 146 points
11. Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off restofworld.org - 125 comments 143 points
12. Of Psion and Symbian www.abortretry.fail - 47 comments 141 points
13. US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban www.opb.org - 100 comments 140 points
14. Traffic noise hurts children's brains www.bbc.com - 102 comments 139 points
15. Asynchronous Consensus Without Trusted Setup or Public-Key Cryptography eprint.iacr.org - 40 comments 126 points
16. Some fundraisers pay >90% of the funds to themselves www.propublica.org - 49 comments 123 points
17. Picolisp a Railroad Simulation picolisp-explored.com - 30 comments 107 points
18. The City of London which is not part of London (2016) www.thevintagenews.com - 93 comments 106 points
19. Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy www.nature.com - 56 comments 106 points
20. I found an 8 years old bug in Xorg trace.yshui.dev - 28 comments 100 points
21. "We argue that mitochondria are the processor of the cell" (2022) www.cell.com - 53 comments 99 points
22. Arbitrary shell command evaluation in Org Mode (GNU Emacs) seclists.org - 20 comments 95 points
23. Review of Linux on Minisforum V3 AMD Ryzen Tablet mudkip.me - 53 comments 94 points
24. Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles arxiv.org - 3 comments 87 points
25. Y combinator codex (2021) phoe.github.io - 19 comments 82 points
26. SquirrelFS: Using the Rust compiler to check file-system crash consistency arxiv.org - 9 comments 76 points
27. Citizens to End SuperPACs www.citizenstoendsuperpacs.org - 38 comments 69 points
28. US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication www.dropbox.com - 29 comments 69 points
29. Fresh water on Earth emerged 500M years earlier than previously thought www.curtin.edu.au - 70 comments 65 points
30. Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding www.theverge.com - 52 comments 63 points