Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-12-18

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1. Moon ciechanow.ski - 161 comments 1846 points
2. Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video] brightonruby.com - 228 comments 648 points
3. FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices www.cnbc.com - 381 comments 373 points
4. How I used linear algebra to build an interactive diagramming editor medium.com - 38 comments 252 points
5. After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code dylanhuang.com - 78 comments 239 points
6. Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime www.more-magic.net - 61 comments 177 points
7. Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps github.com - 51 comments 175 points
8. Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch adam.math.hhu.de - 22 comments 161 points
9. Show HN: I built an open-source data pipeline tool in Go github.com - 32 comments 157 points
10. The Headlight Brightness Wars www.theringer.com - 180 comments 152 points
11. When should we require that firmware be free? mjg59.dreamwidth.org - 111 comments 111 points
12. Includeable minimal operating system for C++ www.includeos.org - 21 comments 106 points
13. A pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay, didn't lose his job (2021) www.sfgate.com - 87 comments 101 points
14. Microsoft rejects documentation PR because AI chatbots can't display tables github.com - 28 comments 99 points
15. The XOR Texture (2004) lodev.org - 19 comments 95 points
16. Northern Ireland police unlawfully put reporters under surveillance www.reuters.com - 27 comments 92 points
17. Multilspy: Building a common LSP client handtuned for all Language servers github.com - 14 comments 90 points
18. Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go github.com - 19 comments 89 points
19. FastVideo: a lightweight framework for accelerating large video diffusion models github.com - 19 comments 87 points
20. Show HN: Adventures in OCR blog.medusis.com - 26 comments 86 points
21. Ozempic increases risk of debilitating eye condition: studies www.sdu.dk - 87 comments 72 points
22. CRDTs and Collaborative Playground www.cerbos.dev - 1 comments 69 points
23. In Defense of Y'All www.texasmonthly.com - 89 comments 67 points
24. We Built the Saturn V (2017) www.smithsonianmag.com - 29 comments 67 points
25. Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search semking.com - 110 comments 65 points
26. Design Token-Based UI Architecture martinfowler.com - 25 comments 60 points
27. SpiceNice – An open source spice database tderflinger.com - 22 comments 59 points
28. Ad: An Adaptable Text Editor github.com - 16 comments 59 points
29. One-Mile-in-Five wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com - 7 comments 55 points
30. Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano Super [video] www.youtube.com - 43 comments 53 points