HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

871.

Online censorship's institutional power (madattheinternet.substack.com)

139 points by rpmisms on May 16, 2024 | 101 comments

872.

The Great Flattening (stratechery.com)

139 points by sturza on May 13, 2024 | 98 comments

873.

The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story (nature.com)

139 points by drdee on May 16, 2024 | 98 comments

874.

A seventh-grader student found a beautiful proof to Thales' Theorem (2002) (cut-the-knot.org)

139 points by samdung on May 30, 2024 | 95 comments

875.

Swiss' Entire Boeing 777 Fleet Now Has Shark Skin Technology (simpleflying.com)

139 points by belter on May 18, 2024 | 85 comments

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Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers (openculture.com)

139 points by geox on May 23, 2024 | 73 comments

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Show HN: "data-to-paper" – autonomous stepwise LLM-driven research (github.com)

139 points by roykishony on May 12, 2024 | 49 comments

878.

Nukefix: Simulating your nuclear weapons program (nukefix.org)

139 points by xk3 on May 6, 2024 | 42 comments

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Kernel.org servers infected with backdoors for two years from 2009 (arstechnica.com)

139 points by yau8edq12i on May 16, 2024 | 11 comments

880.

The Matrix: A Bayesian learning model for LLMs (arxiv.org)

139 points by stoniejohnson on May 4, 2024 | 10 comments

881.

Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (mastodon.archive.org)

139 points by zerojames on May 27, 2024 | 2 comments

882.

"Unacceptable": Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds (arstechnica.com)

139 points by LorenDB on May 24, 2024 | 2 comments

883.

Don't microservice, do module (yekta.dev)

138 points by thunderbong on May 24, 2024 | 159 comments

884.

Medieval Icelanders were likely hunting blue whales before industrial technology (hakaimagazine.com)

138 points by benbreen on May 7, 2024 | 75 comments

885.

Low-latency scripting for game engines (fwsgonzo.medium.com)

138 points by fwsgonzo on May 26, 2024 | 69 comments

886.

Wasmi v0.32: WebAssembly interpreter is now faster than ever (wasmi-labs.github.io)

138 points by herobird on May 28, 2024 | 39 comments

887.

A review on protein language models (apoorva-srinivasan.com)

138 points by apoorva26 on May 14, 2024 | 27 comments

888.

Grace Version Control System (github.com)

137 points by davedx on May 6, 2024 | 205 comments

889.

BASIC turns 60 (arstechnica.com)

137 points by rbanffy on May 1, 2024 | 141 comments

890.

Steve Jurvetson's personal collection of Apollo Lunar Module parts (flickr.com)

137 points by gessha on May 28, 2024 | 30 comments

891.

Show HN: A simple 2D fluid and gravity simulation with WASM and WebGL (aestuans.github.io)

137 points by aestuans on May 8, 2024 | 24 comments

892.

I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it (wsj.com)

136 points by hcrisp on May 18, 2024 | 195 comments

893.

Ask HN: Devs/data scis who pivoted to a new career in 30s/40s, what do you do?

136 points by throw9078686 on May 23, 2024 | 157 comments

894.

I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine

136 points by mouse_ on May 30, 2024 | 108 comments

895.

I Spent 24 Hours with GitHub Copilot Workspaces (every.to)

136 points by dshipper on May 3, 2024 | 72 comments

896.

Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck (al.com)

136 points by Jimmc414 on May 14, 2024 | 64 comments

897.

Us revokes Intel, Qualcomm licenses to sell chips to Huawei (bloomberg.com)

135 points by xgdgsc on May 8, 2024 | 143 comments

898.

What's the difference between a motor and an engine? (2013) (engineering.mit.edu)