HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1561.

"The Illusion of Thinking" – Thoughts on This Important Paper (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)

54 points by rbanffy 1 month ago | 75 comments

1562.

I started with a SQL question. He said "that's a dumb question." (twitter.com)

54 points by keepamovin 1 month ago | 66 comments

1563.

Ask HN: What API or software are people using for transcription?

54 points by indigodaddy 1 month ago | 63 comments

1564.

LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways (martinfowler.com)

54 points by tudorizer 2 weeks ago | 55 comments

1565.

Enhancing MySQL: MySQL improvement project (github.com)

54 points by bratao 1 month ago | 42 comments

1566.

LLM's Illusion of Alignment (systemicmisalignment.com)

54 points by GodotX 2 weeks ago | 37 comments

1567.

Life as Slime (asimov.press)

54 points by surprisetalk 3 weeks ago | 35 comments

1568.

Apple executives have held internal talks about buying Perplexity (bloomberg.com)

54 points by JumpCrisscross 3 weeks ago | 33 comments

1569.

Long Covid destroys teenage lungs in ways doctors never saw (rollingout.com)

54 points by lnyan 3 weeks ago | 31 comments

1570.

Not all tokens are meant to be forgotten (arxiv.org)

54 points by MarcoDewey 1 month ago | 23 comments

1571.

Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL (pitr.ca)

54 points by pitr 1 month ago | 20 comments

1572.

I made a history timeline to learn what events happened around the same time (seanhollen.com)

54 points by Akranazon 2 weeks ago | 18 comments

1573.

Voyager: Real-Time Splatting City-Scale 3D Gaussians on Your Phone (arxiv.org)

54 points by PaulHoule 3 weeks ago | 17 comments

1574.

Anthropic wins fair use victory for AI – but still in trouble for stealing books (simonwillison.net)

54 points by taubek 2 weeks ago | 17 comments

1575.

Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within (github.com)

54 points by dineshgowda24 1 month ago | 16 comments

1576.

xAI accused of pollution over Memphis supercomputer (politico.com)

54 points by troupo 1 month ago | 15 comments

1577.

Flight Simulator gave birth to 3D video-game graphics (2023) (spectrum.ieee.org)

54 points by PaulHoule 1 month ago | 14 comments

1578.

Show HN: A tool to benchmark LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, local/self-hosted) (llmapitest.com)

54 points by mrqjr 2 weeks ago | 9 comments

1579.

Blazing Matrix Products (panadestein.github.io)

54 points by Bogdanp 2 weeks ago | 7 comments

1580.

US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Kristi Noem news conference (nbclosangeles.com)

54 points by pmags 1 month ago | 5 comments

1581.

Entropy of a Mixture (cgad.ski)

54 points by cgadski 2 weeks ago | 5 comments

1582.

Jim Boddie codeveloped the first successful DSP at Bell Labs (spectrum.ieee.org)

54 points by jnord 2 weeks ago | 3 comments

1583.

The Nyanja new PC-Engine/TurboGrafx 16-bit console game in development (sarupro.itch.io)

54 points by retro_guy 3 weeks ago | 1 comments

1584.

BYD's Five-Minute Charging Puts China in the Lead for EVs (spectrum.ieee.org)

53 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 137 comments

1585.

The Problem with AI Welfare (substack.com)

53 points by turing_complete 1 month ago | 132 comments

1586.

YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom (bloomberg.com)

53 points by JumpCrisscross 1 month ago | 130 comments

1587.

Sorcerer (YC S24) raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloons (axios.com)

53 points by tndl 1 month ago | 67 comments

1588.

Philadelphia Transit System Votes to Cut Service by 45%, Hike Fares (bloomberg.com)