HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

841.

Urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build (darrellowens.substack.com)

143 points by greenie_beans on May 17, 2024 | 168 comments

842.

Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors (phoronix.com)

143 points by heywire on May 29, 2024 | 90 comments

843.

Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students? (matheducators.stackexchange.com)

143 points by azeemba on May 13, 2024 | 81 comments

844.

UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001) (cr.yp.to)

142 points by enz on May 9, 2024 | 141 comments

845.

Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair (smithsonianmag.com)

142 points by marban on May 14, 2024 | 101 comments

846.

First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids (tomshardware.com)

142 points by Hadi7546 on May 29, 2024 | 63 comments

847.

Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior (sciencealert.com)

142 points by anigbrowl on May 29, 2024 | 61 comments

848.

Infini-Gram: Scaling unbounded n-gram language models to a trillion tokens (arxiv.org)

142 points by nsagent on May 5, 2024 | 58 comments

849.

Port 666 is officially registered to Doom (ibiblio.org)

142 points by ughitsaaron on May 16, 2024 | 53 comments

850.

What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video] (youtube.com)

142 points by gladuz on May 20, 2024 | 51 comments

851.

CSharpRepl: C# REPL with syntax highlighting and intellisense (fuqua.io)

142 points by aragonite on May 23, 2024 | 43 comments

852.

We created the first open source implementation of Meta's TestGen–LLM (codium.ai)

142 points by gronky_ on May 21, 2024 | 39 comments

853.

Whistleblower who accused Boeing supplier of ignoring defects dies (aljazeera.com)

142 points by dantondwa on May 2, 2024 | 2 comments

854.

Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021) (vox.com)

141 points by gsky on May 10, 2024 | 274 comments

855.

OpenBSD Desktop (x61.ar)

141 points by hggh on May 10, 2024 | 130 comments

856.

Swift's native Clocks are inefficient (wadetregaskis.com)

141 points by mpweiher on May 5, 2024 | 115 comments

857.

Emoji History: The Missing Years (blog.gingerbeardman.com)

141 points by simonpure on May 12, 2024 | 62 comments

858.

Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution (vin01.github.io)

141 points by vin10 on May 21, 2024 | 56 comments

859.

Regular expression matching can be simple and fast (2007) (swtch.com)

141 points by momonga on May 21, 2024 | 43 comments

860.

Simple Speech-to-Text on the '10 Cents' CH32V003 Microcontroller (github.com)

141 points by victor82 on May 28, 2024 | 35 comments

861.

Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture (quantamagazine.org)

141 points by pseudolus on May 15, 2024 | 25 comments

862.

Using Llamafiles for embeddings in local RAG applications (future.mozilla.org)

141 points by tosh on May 16, 2024 | 23 comments

863.

Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic (blog.danielschroeder.me)

141 points by greeniskool on May 23, 2024 | 11 comments

864.

The efficacy of duct tape vs. cryotherapy in the treatment of the common wart (2002) (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

140 points by nixass on May 20, 2024 | 138 comments

865.

Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress (architecturalrecord.com)

140 points by ayanai on May 16, 2024 | 94 comments

866.

Timekeeping Before Clocks (worldhistory.substack.com)

140 points by orcul on May 13, 2024 | 78 comments

867.

Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes (nasa.gov)

140 points by gmays on May 9, 2024 | 76 comments

868.

You are lucky, full moon tonight (twitter.com)

140 points by ca98am79 on May 25, 2024 | 53 comments

869.

What's Next for Kagi? (blog.kagi.com)

140 points by mgw on May 30, 2024 | 31 comments

870.

Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity (nytimes.com)

139 points by amanda99 on May 7, 2024 | 187 comments