HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2911.

Google's former CEO on why the company was caught off guard by OpenAI (theverge.com)

22 points by tqi on Aug 14, 2024 | 17 comments

2912.

Ask HN: Could true randomness come from sparkles from light reflecting the sea?

22 points by danielovichdk on Aug 13, 2024 | 16 comments

2913.

Apple's new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites (techcrunch.com)

22 points by mfiguiere on Aug 5, 2024 | 15 comments

2914.

Japan's Leader, Fumio Kishida, Will Step Down (nytimes.com)

22 points by mikhael on Aug 14, 2024 | 15 comments

2915.

Weird People (maraoz.com)

22 points by fpgentil on Aug 27, 2024 | 15 comments

2916.

More people than ever are eating alone at restaurants (cnn.com)

22 points by rntn on Aug 31, 2024 | 14 comments

2917.

Cell-Free Bioactive Scaffold Supports Cartilage Regeneration-Large Animal Joints (genengnews.com)

22 points by toss1 on Aug 7, 2024 | 14 comments

2918.

Fobos SDR: High-Quality Radio for Hobbyists, Researchers and Professionals (hackster.io)

22 points by teleforce on Aug 10, 2024 | 13 comments

2919.

CVE-2024-40798 – an app may be able to read Safari's browsing history (nvd.nist.gov)

22 points by keepamovin on Aug 5, 2024 | 12 comments

2920.

SpaceX's new direct-to-cell Starlink satellites are brighter than the originals (space.com)

22 points by nabla9 on Aug 6, 2024 | 11 comments

2921.

User-defined Order in SQL (2018) (begriffs.com)

22 points by password4321 on Aug 12, 2024 | 11 comments

2922.

Woman tired of her mail getting stolen used an Apple AirTag to catch the thieves (cnn.com)

22 points by peutetre on Aug 25, 2024 | 11 comments

2923.

Behind AWS S3's Scale (highscalability.com)

22 points by zerojames on Aug 30, 2024 | 11 comments

2924.

In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival's board with mercury (arstechnica.com)

22 points by notamy on Aug 8, 2024 | 10 comments

2925.

The world is relying on a flawed psychological test to fight racism (2017) (qz.com)

22 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2024 | 10 comments

2926.

Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely ma (2016) (web.archive.org)

22 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 25, 2024 | 10 comments

2927.

The shortest, strangest engineering interview I've ever done (bluepnume.medium.com)

22 points by bluepnume on Aug 16, 2024 | 9 comments

2928.

U.S. Wealth Inequality [video] (youtube.com)

22 points by Rinzler89 on Aug 17, 2024 | 9 comments

2929.

Sam Altman Is Battling with Governments over Your Eyes (wsj.com)

22 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 18, 2024 | 9 comments

2930.

A Kubernetes Query Language (cyphernet.es)

22 points by fatliverfreddy on Aug 30, 2024 | 9 comments

2931.

Schedule Email API (resend.com)

22 points by zenorocha on Aug 19, 2024 | 7 comments

2932.

Scientists Discovered a Way to Make Your Batteries Survive Way Longer (petapixel.com)

22 points by dxs on Aug 31, 2024 | 7 comments

2933.

Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)

22 points by program on Aug 30, 2024 | 6 comments

2934.

Programming with Punch Cards [pdf] (web.archive.org)

22 points by thallukrish on Aug 4, 2024 | 5 comments

2935.

The Curse of Knowledge (nesslabs.com)

22 points by damethos on Aug 14, 2024 | 5 comments

2936.

Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes (aws.amazon.com)

22 points by xyzzy_plugh on Aug 20, 2024 | 5 comments

2937.

Super Micro: Fresh Evidence of Accounting Manipulation, etc. (hindenburgresearch.com)

22 points by h2odragon on Aug 27, 2024 | 4 comments

2938.

Verisign under fire for increasing .com prices each and every year it can (theregister.com)

22 points by LinuxBender on Aug 9, 2024 | 3 comments

2939.

A Postgres Alternative to Kafka (sequinstream.com)

22 points by 05bmckay on Aug 19, 2024 | 3 comments

2940.

Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality (scitechdaily.com)

22 points by jnord on Aug 26, 2024 | 3 comments