HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

18811.

Fields where it matters, fields where you can thrive on BS alone, and in between (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

93 points by johndcook on Jan 10, 2023 | 121 comments

18812.

Microsoft announces purchase of 315k tonnes of CO2 removal (heirloomcarbon.com)

93 points by cdr_fyi on Sep 9, 2023 | 118 comments

18813.

There Once Was an Empire (novum.substack.com)

93 points by apollinaire on Dec 12, 2023 | 118 comments

18814.

Why developers never use state machines (2011) (skorks.com)

93 points by greenie_beans on Jan 23, 2023 | 117 comments

18815.

How Postgres Triggers Can Simplify Your Back End Development (themythicalengineer.com)

93 points by sks147 on Apr 23, 2023 | 110 comments

18816.

UTF-21, a toy character encoding (evanhahn.com)

93 points by samwillis on Jun 10, 2023 | 109 comments

18817.

What it’s like to fall into the deadly Australian plant, gympie-gympie (iflscience.com)

93 points by anotherevan on Apr 7, 2023 | 102 comments

18818.

Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open (community.frame.work)

93 points by lytedev on Jul 18, 2023 | 102 comments

18819.

Poor people pay higher time tax (pluralistic.net)

93 points by thecosas on Feb 12, 2023 | 101 comments

18820.

We migrated to SQL. Our biggest learning? Don't use Prisma (codedamn.com)

93 points by mariuz on Oct 9, 2023 | 101 comments

18821.

Money market funds swell by over $273B as investors pull deposits from banks (ft.com)

93 points by VagueMag on Mar 26, 2023 | 99 comments

18822.

We need female mice in neuroscience research (news.harvard.edu)

93 points by belter on Apr 26, 2023 | 98 comments

18823.

3D Printer Auto Bed Leveling Mesh Visualizer (i.chillrain.com)

93 points by macinjosh on Dec 19, 2023 | 98 comments

18824.

Michigan could provide $300M to reopen nuclear power plant (power-eng.com)

93 points by jseliger on Apr 17, 2023 | 97 comments

18825.

Why the binding arbitration game is rigged against customers (2019) (gsb.stanford.edu)

93 points by dakial1 on Nov 6, 2023 | 95 comments

18826.

Avoidance Speech (en.wikipedia.org)

93 points by keiferski on Apr 7, 2023 | 93 comments

18827.

The OSI Deprogrammer (docs.google.com)

93 points by mpweiher on Oct 24, 2023 | 93 comments

18828.

Goldman is looking for a way out of its partnership with Apple (wsj.com)

93 points by ExMachina73 on Jun 30, 2023 | 92 comments

18829.

Japan skiers’ smartphones making unnecessary emergency calls (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)

93 points by mef on Jan 29, 2023 | 91 comments

18830.

America’s $800B climate splurge is feeding a new lobbying ecosystem (economist.com)

93 points by lxm on Apr 21, 2023 | 90 comments

18831.

Design quirks, limited parts, and other ways Chromebooks frustrate repairs (arstechnica.com)

93 points by PaulHoule on Apr 22, 2023 | 89 comments

18832.

Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs (theregister.com)

93 points by LinuxBender on Sep 21, 2023 | 89 comments

18833.

GPT3 Get answers to technical questions from your documentation site (jointwig.com)

93 points by chandan_maruthi on Jan 8, 2023 | 87 comments

18834.

New data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (technologyreview.com)

93 points by lawlessone on Oct 23, 2023 | 86 comments

18835.

Free speech under attack across Ireland, UK, Europe and globally (twitter.com)

93 points by Bran_son on May 8, 2023 | 83 comments

18836.

The professor who made $10B by cutting Google its first startup check (finance.yahoo.com)

93 points by redbell on May 19, 2023 | 83 comments

18837.

The unfortunate math behind consulting companies (2011) (longform.asmartbear.com)

93 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 23, 2023 | 83 comments

18838.

Canada plans to regulate search and social media use of AI (michaelgeist.ca)

93 points by markdog12 on Oct 10, 2023 | 82 comments

18839.

The future of AI according to thousands of forecasters (metaculus.com)

93 points by ddp26 on Jun 27, 2023 | 81 comments

18840.

DJI Drone Rescue Map (enterprise.dji.com)

93 points by 1970-01-01 on Jul 13, 2023 | 81 comments