Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-07-01

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1. Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite github.com - 122 comments 485 points
2. Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful tulach.cc - 303 comments 249 points
3. Postzegelcode en.wikipedia.org - 71 comments 199 points
4. Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI techcrunch.com - 166 comments 178 points
5. The weirdest QNX bug I've encountered (2021) mental-reverb.com - 52 comments 151 points
6. Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed artsandculture.google.com - 40 comments 141 points
7. Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn www.cbc.ca - 282 comments 139 points
8. How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed dillan.org - 116 comments 132 points
9. Convolutions, Fast Fourier Transform and polynomials (2022) www.alvarorevuelta.com - 30 comments 128 points
10. Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes www.pipes.digital - 40 comments 121 points
11. A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing luggagelosers.com - 51 comments 106 points
12. Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only www.bleepingcomputer.com - 101 comments 104 points
13. The EU regulates that by 2027, all phones be equipped with replaceable batteries twitter.com - 109 comments 102 points
14. Figma defaults to train AI models on personal data help.figma.com - 47 comments 101 points
15. Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews nelson.cloud - 116 comments 96 points
16. An Analog Network of Resistors Promises Machine Learning Without a Processor www.hackster.io - 36 comments 93 points
17. A simplified Python simulation of diffusion www.thepythoncodingstack.com - 13 comments 87 points
18. Below MI – IBM i for hackers silentsignal.github.io - 24 comments 84 points
19. Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicide www.nytimes.com - 27 comments 82 points
20. Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might be disappointing www.businessinsider.com - 147 comments 81 points
21. Newswire: A large-scale structured database of a century of historical news arxiv.org - 19 comments 81 points
22. DOJ to offer Boeing "sweetheart" plea deal in pursuit of criminal charges www.cnn.com - 37 comments 79 points
23. The depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer in Western Kansas kansasreflector.com - 63 comments 77 points
24. Nyquest NY8A051H – 1.5 cent microcontroller: weekend die-shot zeptobars.com - 36 comments 76 points
25. Microsoft 1998 = Apple 2024 ianbetteridge.com - 88 comments 74 points
26. The Byte Order Fiasco (2021) justine.lol - 48 comments 72 points
27. Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers arstechnica.com - 36 comments 72 points
28. The 1904 Olympic Marathon (2012) www.smithsonianmag.com - 25 comments 71 points
29. California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA www.sfchronicle.com - 97 comments 67 points
30. A Model of a Mind tylerneylon.com - 16 comments 56 points