HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

14881.

Why did people in the past look so much older? (dazeddigital.com)

120 points by helsinkiandrew on Aug 16, 2023 | 166 comments

14882.

US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan posts derogatory to US (404media.co)

120 points by wahnfrieden on Oct 27, 2023 | 163 comments

14883.

LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A” (paperswithcode.com)

120 points by saliagato on Sep 23, 2023 | 158 comments

14884.

San Francisco Blows Housing Deadline, Prompting Standoff with State Regulators (sfstandard.com)

120 points by lando2319 on Nov 28, 2023 | 149 comments

14885.

Our structure (openai.com)

120 points by RafelMri on Nov 18, 2023 | 145 comments

14886.

Neverflow: C macros that guard against buffer overflows (github.com)

120 points by sertraline on Jun 2, 2023 | 143 comments

14887.

Show HN: A JavaScript function that looks and behaves like a pipe operator (github.com)

120 points by FroLeMageBlanc on Sep 27, 2023 | 142 comments

14888.

Effortless Performance Improvements in C++: std:unordered_map (julien.jorge.st)

120 points by jandeboevrie on Mar 2, 2023 | 139 comments

14889.

“How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress (journals.plos.org)

120 points by luplex on Jul 4, 2023 | 139 comments

14890.

Write Posix Shell (j3s.sh)

120 points by j3s on Mar 11, 2023 | 131 comments

14891.

List of rivers by discharge (en.wikipedia.org)

120 points by abudabi123 on Mar 27, 2023 | 130 comments

14892.

Disabled at 22 million commits (programming.dev)

120 points by volongoto on Jul 2, 2023 | 130 comments

14893.

We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters (danluu.com)

120 points by 0x000042 on Nov 10, 2023 | 130 comments

14894.

Please don't say just hello in chat (nohello.net)

120 points by mooreds on Jul 6, 2023 | 126 comments

14895.

GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020) (kitze.io)

120 points by behnamoh on Oct 18, 2023 | 123 comments

14896.

Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court (reuters.com)

120 points by mfiguiere on Dec 27, 2023 | 122 comments

14897.

Tech sector Salaries have fallen up to 15 per cent as fired talent floods market (afr.com)

120 points by pg_1234 on Aug 29, 2023 | 119 comments

14898.

Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults? (cancer.gov)

120 points by paulpauper on Feb 7, 2023 | 118 comments

14899.

Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (zdnet.com)

120 points by CrankyBear on Oct 22, 2023 | 114 comments

14900.

The Long Shadow of Checks (bitsaboutmoney.com)

120 points by zepton on Dec 13, 2023 | 109 comments

14901.

‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content (balkaninsight.com)

120 points by Vinnl on Sep 25, 2023 | 107 comments

14902.

Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms (grayjay.app)

120 points by judiisis on Oct 18, 2023 | 106 comments

14903.

National Film Board of Canada (nfb.ca)

120 points by bookofjoe on Sep 7, 2023 | 104 comments

14904.

Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string? (quuxplusone.github.io)

120 points by jandeboevrie on Sep 8, 2023 | 103 comments

14905.

Fighting murder convictions that rest on shoddy stats (science.org)

120 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Jan 20, 2023 | 102 comments

14906.

Fractal Vise (airgraver.com)

120 points by mattlondon on Jul 9, 2023 | 99 comments

14907.

Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?

120 points by behnamoh on Jul 20, 2023 | 98 comments

14908.

The XY Problem (2014) (xyproblem.info)

120 points by nitinreddy88 on May 25, 2023 | 96 comments

14909.

Flipping the model presents a new way to treat sleep apnoea (news.flinders.edu.au)

120 points by belter on Aug 19, 2023 | 96 comments

14910.

How to build toxic software teams (badsoftwareadvice.substack.com)

120 points by tate on Jul 26, 2023 | 94 comments