The best of Hacker News - November 20, 2024

1.
Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT

395 points

2.
Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

393 points

3.
FireDucks: Pandas but Faster

363 points

4.
YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design

317 points

5.
Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm

281 points

6.
Why I hate the index finger (1980)

252 points

7.
Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data

244 points

8.
99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python

243 points

9.
Hand Tracking for Mouse Input (2023)

217 points

10.
Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork

215 points

11.
Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"

186 points

12.
How good are American roads?

172 points

13.
Shift Left Is the Tip of the Iceberg

172 points

14.
Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

169 points

15.
Why is Apple Rosetta 2 fast? (2022)

168 points

16.
Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells

158 points

17.
The withering dream of a cheap American electric car

150 points

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