Hacker News Daily Top 30 @2024-11-21

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1. What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) history.stackexchange.com - 115 comments 523 points
2. AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing blog.frost.kiwi - 74 comments 495 points
3. Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke bsky.app - 623 comments 491 points
4. Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now letsencrypt.org - 177 comments 485 points
5. Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT news.mit.edu - 330 comments 467 points
6. Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds torrentfreak.com - 49 comments 233 points
7. Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies" arstechnica.com - 131 comments 203 points
8. Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells www.ualberta.ca - 227 comments 192 points
9. Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media www.newscientist.com - 233 comments 184 points
10. Why don't you move abroad? orkohunter.net - 181 comments 184 points
11. How good are American roads? www.construction-physics.com - 387 comments 181 points
12. How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment www.nytimes.com - 165 comments 149 points
13. Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset simonwillison.net - 25 comments 147 points
14. Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About catonmat.net - 27 comments 143 points
15. GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released artanis.dev - 51 comments 132 points
16. La Basilica Di San Pietro unlocked.microsoft.com - 61 comments 130 points
17. SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems www.philipzucker.com - 12 comments 125 points
18. Lush: My favorite small programming language scottlocklin.wordpress.com - 19 comments 115 points
19. Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts blog.cloudflare.com - 24 comments 112 points
20. AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers blog.google - 42 comments 103 points
21. With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies hackaday.com - 60 comments 99 points
22. Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (2021) www.abebooks.com - 64 comments 94 points
23. Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript electrobun.dev - 22 comments 91 points
24. Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints github.com - 37 comments 88 points
25. Show HN: Self-Host Next.js in Production github.com - 47 comments 87 points
26. Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs news.ycombinator.com - 39 comments 85 points
27. Danish Navy stopped a Chinese ship suspected of damaging undersea cables defence24.com - 3 comments 84 points
28. Show HN: Cardo ‒ Open Source desktop podcast client cardo-podcast.github.io - 28 comments 82 points
29. Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans www.theguardian.com - 31 comments 79 points
30. Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021) www.mpi-hd.mpg.de - 69 comments 78 points