Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-06-28

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1. Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work arstechnica.com - 51 comments 507 points
2. Google Sheets ported its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC web.dev - 185 comments 404 points
3. 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown apnews.com - 165 comments 322 points
4. A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves www.valve.computer - 46 comments 291 points
5. Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf] www.ams.org - 81 comments 273 points
6. Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement www.washingtonpost.com - 558 comments 248 points
7. Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf] storage.googleapis.com - 146 comments 240 points
8. Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs lars.ingebrigtsen.no - 41 comments 240 points
9. Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections lwn.net - 72 comments 208 points
10. CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4 openai.com - 176 comments 197 points
11. Launch HN: Hatchet (YC W24) – Open-source task queue, now with a cloud version news.ycombinator.com - 80 comments 189 points
12. Post Office lawyers held secret meeting with judge to stop disclosure www.lawgazette.co.uk - 148 comments 185 points
13. Open Sourcing Kinopio pketh.org - 38 comments 170 points
14. FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days techcrunch.com - 79 comments 162 points
15. Flow Charts with CSS Anchor Positioning coryrylan.com - 64 comments 154 points
16. Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement www.nbcnews.com - 1 comments 147 points
17. Misconceptions about loops in C dl.acm.org - 126 comments 131 points
18. Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader sixcolors.com - 92 comments 129 points
19. How to think about creating a dataset for LLM fine-tuning evaluation mlops.systems - 7 comments 120 points
20. Identity Verification Used by X, TikTok, and Uber Exposed Driver's Licenses gizmodo.com - 1 comments 119 points
21. Astronauts take shelter in Starliner, other spacecraft after satellite breakup www.space.com - 116 comments 113 points
22. Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs backprop.co - 123 comments 107 points
23. Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE www.infoworld.com - 50 comments 97 points
24. TeamViewer Security Breach www.teamviewer.com - 37 comments 86 points
25. A dev's thoughts on developer productivity (2022) sourcegraph.com - 36 comments 79 points
26. Not everything is behavioral science behavioralscientist.org - 78 comments 78 points
27. 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan newatlas.com - 87 comments 75 points
28. US sanctions Boeing for sharing information about 737 MAX 9 investigation apnews.com - 58 comments 75 points
29. Slack to destroy >90d history of free communities slimsag.com - 74 comments 73 points
30. The Life Of Lithium www.noemamag.com - 6 comments 70 points