Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-07-03

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1. Why is Chile so long? unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com - 349 comments 1165 points
2. Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder lunduke.locals.com - 572 comments 729 points
3. Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser ladybird.org - 2 comments 544 points
4. Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs github.com - 71 comments 490 points
5. Booting Linux off of Google Drive ersei.net - 167 comments 411 points
6. Meta 3D Gen ai.meta.com - 100 comments 367 points
7. With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits www.quantamagazine.org - 100 comments 361 points
8. Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust makojs.dev - 186 comments 239 points
9. Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died www.heraldextra.com - 67 comments 224 points
10. GraphRAG is now on GitHub www.microsoft.com - 32 comments 218 points
11. Show HN: Adding Mistral Codestral and GPT-4o to Jupyter Notebooks github.com - 60 comments 208 points
12. Google's carbon emissions surge nearly 50% due to AI energy demand www.cnbc.com - 103 comments 143 points
13. Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models apnews.com - 44 comments 132 points
14. Trying Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks in Practice cprimozic.net - 22 comments 131 points
15. Apple poised to get OpenAI board observer role as part of AI pact www.bloomberg.com - 63 comments 122 points
16. I Received an AI Email timharek.no - 67 comments 120 points
17. 8cc.vim: Pure Vim script C Compiler github.com - 19 comments 116 points
18. The history of Alt+number sequences devblogs.microsoft.com - 49 comments 113 points
19. Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair community.sonarsource.com - 53 comments 112 points
20. The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings andrewchen.substack.com - 109 comments 100 points
21. Htmx does not play well with content security policy www.sjoerdlangkemper.nl - 55 comments 95 points
22. Figma disables AI app design tool after it copied Apple's weather app www.404media.co - 91 comments 93 points
23. Python Modern Practices www.stuartellis.name - 44 comments 93 points
24. Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News hackernews.demo.vectara.com - 36 comments 93 points
25. Alzheimer's scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M scheme arstechnica.com - 15 comments 82 points
26. Nuclear spectroscopy breakthrough could rewrite fundamental constants of nature newsroom.ucla.edu - 44 comments 77 points
27. Exploring biphasic programming: a new approach in language design rybicki.io - 42 comments 77 points
28. The Illustrated Transformer (2018) jalammar.github.io - 5 comments 77 points
29. An epigenetic editor to silence genes www.science.org - 6 comments 72 points
30. Google rejected me and now I'm building a search engine daoudclarke.net - 132 comments 71 points