HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

10591.

Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold (bbc.com)

164 points by borissk on Dec 4, 2023 | 95 comments

10592.

LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay (interactions.org)

164 points by elashri on May 29, 2023 | 94 comments

10593.

Writing code with pencil and paper (2022) (css-tricks.com)

164 points by raytopia on Oct 9, 2023 | 93 comments

10594.

The Bluffers Guide to the Mythical Man Month (codemanship.wordpress.com)

164 points by JazCE on Nov 20, 2023 | 89 comments

10595.

Bing Chat responses infiltrated by ads pushing malware (bleepingcomputer.com)

164 points by pixiemaster on Sep 28, 2023 | 83 comments

10596.

Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy (arxiv.org)

164 points by cma on Jan 23, 2023 | 79 comments

10597.

Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone (2009) (science.org)

164 points by chris_overseas on Feb 25, 2023 | 75 comments

10598.

What I've Learned About Formal Methods in Half a Year (jakob.space)

164 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 10, 2023 | 70 comments

10599.

GitHub profile achievements (cqcumbers.com)

164 points by cqcumbers on Jul 11, 2023 | 70 comments

10600.

Twenty: A Modern open-source CRM (github.com)

164 points by pretext on Oct 7, 2023 | 67 comments

10601.

Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, but Allows Hitler’s Mein Kampf (themarshallproject.org)

164 points by davideads_tmp on Jun 20, 2023 | 64 comments

10602.

Every factorial approximates a power (johndcook.com)

164 points by warrenm on Jun 26, 2023 | 64 comments

10603.

Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92 (washingtonpost.com)

164 points by bookofjoe on Aug 13, 2023 | 63 comments

10604.

Big landlords are colluding to raise rents, D.C. lawsuit alleges (axios.com)

164 points by janandonly on Nov 5, 2023 | 63 comments

10605.

Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet (gyrovague.com)

164 points by resolutebat on Aug 5, 2023 | 62 comments

10606.

Modular forms, the ‘fifth fundamental operation’ of math (quantamagazine.org)

164 points by nsoonhui on Sep 22, 2023 | 56 comments

10607.

CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit (theregister.com)

164 points by valyala on Sep 20, 2023 | 52 comments

10608.

Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say (npr.org)

164 points by goplayoutside on Aug 20, 2023 | 51 comments

10609.

Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI (vgmusic.com)

164 points by BramLovesYams on Dec 20, 2023 | 50 comments

10610.

Sunken Greenhouse (thetinylife.com)

164 points by simonebrunozzi on Jan 6, 2023 | 46 comments

10611.

LangChain: The Missing Manual (pinecone.io)

164 points by gk1 on May 19, 2023 | 43 comments

10612.

Easy Effects: Audio effects for PipeWire applications (github.com)

164 points by marcodiego on May 28, 2023 | 40 comments

10613.

How to implement Q&A against your docs with GPT3 embeddings and Datasette (simonwillison.net)

164 points by swyx on Jan 22, 2023 | 31 comments

10614.

JanOS: Turn your phone into an IoT board (2015) (janos.io)

164 points by danboarder on Apr 28, 2023 | 30 comments

10615.

Zero-Downtime Hetzner Deploys with Ansible (scratchdb.com)

164 points by memset on Aug 28, 2023 | 30 comments

10616.

It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy (foundation.mozilla.org)

164 points by robin_reala on Sep 6, 2023 | 27 comments

10617.

Belgium launches nationwide safe harbor for ethical hackers (portswigger.net)

164 points by raphinou on Mar 3, 2023 | 23 comments

10618.

Systems Programming with Racket (docs.racket-lang.org)

164 points by r_sz on Jun 30, 2023 | 23 comments

10619.

Bézier Curves and the logic behind them (blog.richardekwonye.com)

164 points by bpierre on Sep 2, 2023 | 22 comments

10620.

Haskell mini-patterns handbook (2020) (kowainik.github.io)

164 points by Tomte on Sep 4, 2023 | 19 comments