top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-12-09

Willow, Our Quantum Chip

https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/

2 months ago

1410 upvotes – 528 comments

Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

https://bsky.app/profile/itch.io/post/3lcu6h465bs2n

2 months ago

1197 upvotes – 463 comments

Sora is here

https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/

2 months ago

1152 upvotes – 985 comments

What we know about CEO shooting suspect

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9nxee2r0do

2 months ago

679 upvotes – 2077 comments

"This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom"

https://twitter.com/itchio/status/1866239798924763227

2 months ago

623 upvotes – 151 comments

Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain

https://flatt.tech/research/posts/compromising-openwrt-supply-chain-sha256-collision/

2 months ago

584 upvotes – 99 comments

Trellis – 3D mesh generative model

https://trellis3d.github.io/

2 months ago

445 upvotes – 80 comments

Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/why-gelsinger-was-wrong-for-intel/

2 months ago

425 upvotes – 369 comments

"Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers"

https://mastodon.social/@kiwix/113622081750449356

2 months ago

421 upvotes – 372 comments

Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails

https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya

2 months ago

349 upvotes – 97 comments

ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4

https://home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-finds-first-ever-evidence-antimatter-partner-hyperhelium-4

2 months ago

280 upvotes – 83 comments

Debanking (and Debunking?)

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunking/

2 months ago

258 upvotes – 344 comments

Exotic new superconductors delight and confound

https://www.quantamagazine.org/exotic-new-superconductors-delight-and-confound-20241206/

2 months ago

231 upvotes – 70 comments

New dog, old trick: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly via SD card reader

https://swarm.ptsecurity.com/new-dog-old-tricks-damagecard-attack-targets-memory-directly-thru-sd-card-reader/

2 months ago

187 upvotes – 21 comments

Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4995517

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 205 comments

Task-specific LLM evals that do and don't work

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/evals/

2 months ago

182 upvotes – 46 comments

A letter to open-source maintainers

https://xuanwo.io/2024/10-a-letter-to-open-source-maintainers/

2 months ago

178 upvotes – 82 comments

Storing Times for Human Events

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/storing-times-for-human-events/

2 months ago

168 upvotes – 80 comments

How God Plays Chess (2018)

https://en.chessbase.com/post/how-god-plays-chess

2 months ago

161 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: Ternary Computer System

https://www.ternary-computing.com/history/CPU-History.html

2 months ago

145 upvotes – 40 comments
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