HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (severe-weather.eu)

386 points by dgellow 23 hours ago | 267 comments

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Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)

361 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 153 comments

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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)

345 points by pentagrama 5 hours ago | 141 comments

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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (acc.org)

311 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 277 comments

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Software Engineering fundamentals matter more (rhonabwy.com)

275 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 182 comments

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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)

262 points by Alifatisk 6 hours ago | 100 comments

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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

244 points by felixbraun 21 hours ago | 58 comments

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What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (littlelearner-ll.github.io)

227 points by porridgeraisin 11 hours ago | 195 comments

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AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)

177 points by AnodicElegy 23 hours ago | 86 comments

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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems (anthropic.com)

170 points by maxutility 16 hours ago | 127 comments

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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history (horn.gg)

170 points by madrox 20 hours ago | 109 comments

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The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)

145 points by mlenhard 3 hours ago | 58 comments

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The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts (404media.co)

117 points by Jimmc414 20 hours ago | 83 comments

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Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (michael.stapelberg.ch)

110 points by ingve 21 hours ago | 38 comments

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Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) (tinkerings.org)

103 points by Eridanus2 17 hours ago | 26 comments

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The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)

96 points by lentil_soup 3 hours ago | 59 comments

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A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (rand.org)

91 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 64 comments

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The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 (en.wikipedia.org)

90 points by firefax 21 hours ago | 27 comments

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St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)

89 points by toomuchtodo 3 hours ago | 55 comments

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Banned Words List (pen.org)

85 points by structuredPizza 5 hours ago | 42 comments

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Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

83 points by antipurist 7 hours ago | 99 comments

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The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US (politico.com)

77 points by hebelehubele 12 hours ago | 56 comments

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Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)

76 points by johnsillings 17 hours ago | 34 comments

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Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions (politico.com)

74 points by computerliker 23 hours ago | 30 comments

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Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died (spectrum.ieee.org)

74 points by Jimmc414 20 hours ago | 4 comments

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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)

68 points by Narishma 1 hour ago | 17 comments

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US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged (independent.co.uk)

63 points by NordStreamYacht 5 hours ago | 56 comments

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The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators (breck.lol)

63 points by cjlm 14 hours ago | 18 comments

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Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record (abc7.com)

62 points by lxm 19 hours ago | 88 comments

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Falstad Math and Physics Simulations (falstad.com)

60 points by pykello 14 hours ago | 12 comments