HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

13981.

Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do (nbcnews.com)

128 points by housemusicfan on Aug 25, 2023 | 92 comments

13982.

The gotcha of unhandled promise rejections (jakearchibald.com)

128 points by AshleysBrain on Jan 12, 2023 | 89 comments

13983.

JeanHeyd Meneide's response to “Why I left Rust” (pony.social)

128 points by mepian on May 28, 2023 | 88 comments

13984.

More than 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as water hits 102 degrees Fahrenheit (cnn.com)

128 points by hnuser0000 on Oct 1, 2023 | 87 comments

13985.

Motocompacto from Honda, 3.7 inch wide Briefcase-form Electric Scooter (motocompacto.honda.com)

128 points by sizzle on Sep 29, 2023 | 86 comments

13986.

Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016) (changelog.com)

128 points by Tomte on Jan 5, 2023 | 85 comments

13987.

BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin [pdf] (bitvm.org)

128 points by wslh on Oct 16, 2023 | 76 comments

13988.

A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much (theatlantic.com)

128 points by fortran77 on Nov 25, 2023 | 74 comments

13989.

DPReview is being shut down by Amazon today (digitalcameraworld.com)

128 points by elijahparker on Apr 11, 2023 | 72 comments

13990.

Adding design-by-contract conditions to C++ via a GCC plugin (gavinray97.github.io)

128 points by gavinray on Jan 1, 2023 | 71 comments

13991.

WebGPU hits 40% availability 2 weeks after Chrome releases support (web3dsurvey.com)

128 points by bhouston on May 17, 2023 | 70 comments

13992.

Giant 'Gravity Hole' in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea (scientificamerican.com)

128 points by _Microft on Jun 27, 2023 | 69 comments

13993.

The FBI Has Collected DNA Profiles for 21M People (theintercept.com)

128 points by mikece on Aug 29, 2023 | 68 comments

13994.

Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness (accesstoinsight.org)

128 points by rajlego on Oct 10, 2023 | 68 comments

13995.

Forests with multiple tree species are more effective as carbon sinks (phys.org)

128 points by wglb on Nov 13, 2023 | 67 comments

13996.

She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter (nytimes.com)

128 points by samclemens on Jul 12, 2023 | 66 comments

13997.

MiniDisc Hacking (sharoma.com)

128 points by crtasm on Oct 8, 2023 | 64 comments

13998.

Miyazaki’s Magical Food: An ode to anime’s best cooking scenes (seriouseats.com)

128 points by DemiGuru on Aug 1, 2023 | 63 comments

13999.

A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon (2019) (wired.com)

128 points by venmul on May 20, 2023 | 62 comments

14000.

Show HN: Public transportation signage based on bloom filters (rough mockup) (github.com)

128 points by bitsinthesky on Mar 21, 2023 | 61 comments

14001.

Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists (arxiv.org)

128 points by sebg on Aug 25, 2023 | 59 comments

14002.

Show HN: GPTDuck – Ask questions about any GitHub repo (gptduck.com)

128 points by penguinten on Jan 5, 2023 | 55 comments

14003.

MacUser 1996: How to Rig Up the Fastest Photoshop Machine (archive.org)

128 points by doener on Apr 1, 2023 | 54 comments

14004.

FastGPT: A fast, full search, AI answering engine (labs.kagi.com)

128 points by JimRyan on Apr 26, 2023 | 50 comments

14005.

Ask HN: Is YC becoming less of a home for hackers and more for MBA-types?

128 points by confoundcofound on May 16, 2023 | 50 comments

14006.

Transactions Are Not Locks (2022) (benburwell.com)

128 points by Paul-Craft on Oct 21, 2023 | 50 comments

14007.

OpenVMS 9.2 for x86 is finally available for hobbyists (raymii.org)

128 points by jandeboevrie on Apr 9, 2023 | 48 comments

14008.

Google claims breakthrough in quantum computer error correction (ft.com)

128 points by aarghh on Feb 22, 2023 | 47 comments

14009.

Quantum Computing 101 (academy.meetiqm.com)

128 points by doener on Apr 7, 2023 | 47 comments

14010.

NVD Damage Continued (daniel.haxx.se)

128 points by psanford on Jun 13, 2023 | 47 comments