HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

41611.

Making true random numbers with radioactive decay (2021) (partofthething.com)

18 points by remoquete on Dec 9, 2024 | 6 comments

41612.

Student Phones and Social Media Are Fueling Fights in Schools (nytimes.com)

18 points by marban on Dec 16, 2024 | 6 comments

41613.

The longest straight line in Great Britain (without crossing a public road) (statsmapsnpix.com)

18 points by fanf2 on Dec 19, 2024 | 6 comments

41614.

Wine 9.8 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS (gitlab.winehq.org)

18 points by neustradamus on May 3, 2024 | 5 comments

41615.

ReCAPTCHA is broken for [some|most|all] Windows users (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

18 points by robin_reala on May 4, 2024 | 5 comments

41616.

They Used Resume Spammers to Apply for 120 Jobs. Chaos Ensued (businessinsider.com)

18 points by mgbmtl on May 8, 2024 | 5 comments

41617.

Microplastics found in every human testicle in study (theguardian.com)

18 points by pseudolus on May 20, 2024 | 5 comments

41618.

Self-Driving Tesla Nearly Hits Oncoming Train (ibtimes.co.uk)

18 points by ra7 on May 21, 2024 | 5 comments

41619.

Doctorow on Ticketmaster jacking us for billions so it can pocket millions (pluralistic.net)

18 points by Jaauthor on Jun 3, 2024 | 5 comments

41620.

Altman backed AI Social Network 'Maven' imported 1.12M Fediverse posts (wedistribute.org)

18 points by evolve2k on Jun 13, 2024 | 5 comments

41621.

Why China Could Surprise World by Being the First Country to Adopt UBI (scottsantens.com)

18 points by Gigamouse on Jan 30, 2024 | 5 comments

41622.

AMD crams five compute architectures onto a single board (theregister.com)

18 points by PaulHoule on Feb 16, 2024 | 5 comments

41623.

The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing (npr.org)

18 points by jseliger on Feb 17, 2024 | 5 comments

41624.

Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com)

18 points by bookofjoe on Feb 23, 2024 | 5 comments

41625.

Underwater volcano eruption 7,300 years ago is the largest in recorded history (livescience.com)

18 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 29, 2024 | 5 comments

41626.

Scientist fired from Winnipeg disease lab intentionally worked to benefit China (cbc.ca)

18 points by geox on Mar 2, 2024 | 5 comments

41627.

iOS 17.4 is here and ready for a whole new Europe (theverge.com)

18 points by agust on Mar 5, 2024 | 5 comments

41628.

Coming back from the dead, the largest aircraft just flew a real payload (arstechnica.com)

18 points by thelastgallon on Mar 12, 2024 | 5 comments

41629.

OpenAI has solved the XY problem once and for all (nt4tn.net)

18 points by max_ on Mar 14, 2024 | 5 comments

41630.

Google, Apple breakups on the agenda as regulators target tech (reuters.com)

18 points by Judyrabbit on Mar 25, 2024 | 5 comments

41631.

Sierra Leone declares emergency over drug kush – made from human bones (bbc.com)

18 points by impish9208 on Apr 6, 2024 | 5 comments

41632.

Oil Cooling Can Make EVs Even More Efficient (thedrive.com)

18 points by cebert on Apr 9, 2024 | 5 comments

41633.

U.S. Geothermal Capacity Set To Grow by 1,900% by 2050 (oilprice.com)

18 points by PaulHoule on Apr 17, 2024 | 5 comments

41634.

Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone (nytimes.com)

18 points by digital55 on Apr 22, 2024 | 5 comments

41635.

Russia leaves planes without GPS in northern Europe (english.elpais.com)

18 points by gulced on May 3, 2024 | 5 comments

41636.

OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity (bloomberg.com)

18 points by ororm on May 9, 2024 | 5 comments

41637.

Debian Sid No-Feature KeePassXC Package (github.com)

18 points by Sami_Lehtinen on May 10, 2024 | 5 comments

41638.

Dutch regulator fines Fornite-maker Epic Games €1.1M for ads aimed at kids (nltimes.nl)

18 points by jacquesm on May 14, 2024 | 5 comments

41639.

Show HN: Screenshot to Reactjs and Tailwindcss (aiui.me)

18 points by onurbb on Jun 1, 2024 | 5 comments

41640.

Size Matters? Penis Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

18 points by voisin on Jun 9, 2024 | 5 comments