HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7921.

Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big? (economist.com)

168 points by godelmachine on Oct 19, 2024 | 179 comments

7922.

Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio] (syntax.fm)

168 points by thunderbong on Jun 12, 2024 | 175 comments

7923.

My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017) (dl.acm.org)

168 points by fanf2 on May 14, 2024 | 174 comments

7924.

The problem with OpenTelemetry (cra.mr)

168 points by robgering on Jun 14, 2024 | 174 comments

7925.

Dennis Ritchie on the priorities of && || vs. == etc. (1982) (lysator.liu.se)

168 points by spc476 on Jan 5, 2024 | 171 comments

7926.

The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms (vox.com)

168 points by rntn on Oct 5, 2024 | 160 comments

7927.

RFC: Banning "AI"-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions to Gentoo (mail-archive.com)

168 points by Lockal on Apr 15, 2024 | 155 comments

7928.

Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens (jetpens.com)

168 points by beermonster on Jan 4, 2024 | 152 comments

7929.

I no longer maintain my Emacs projects on Sourcehut (protesilaos.com)

168 points by goranmoomin on Mar 12, 2024 | 152 comments

7930.

Money pours into new fabs and facilities (semiengineering.com)

168 points by adrian_mrd on Jan 8, 2024 | 147 comments

7931.

Pharma firms stash profits in Europe's tax havens (investigate-europe.eu)

168 points by obscurette on Jul 1, 2024 | 144 comments

7932.

Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit (spacenews.com)

168 points by milgrim on Oct 21, 2024 | 137 comments

7933.

On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) (cs.utexas.edu)

168 points by torstenvl on Aug 19, 2024 | 136 comments

7934.

Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects (theverge.com)

168 points by anigbrowl on Sep 23, 2024 | 125 comments

7935.

Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1 (tailwindcss.com)

168 points by creativedg on Nov 22, 2024 | 125 comments

7936.

Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big (dadrian.io)

168 points by todsacerdoti on Mar 23, 2024 | 124 comments

7937.

Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet (transformer-circuits.pub)

168 points by 1wheel on May 21, 2024 | 124 comments

7938.

Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35B stock deal (reuters.com)

168 points by loganadams_ on Feb 20, 2024 | 122 comments

7939.

CO2 helps viruses stay alive longer in the air (statnews.com)

168 points by chapulin on Jun 4, 2024 | 119 comments

7940.

Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display (blog.stuffedcow.net)

168 points by forgotthepasswd on Sep 8, 2024 | 116 comments

7941.

Immediate Mode GUI Programming (eliasnaur.com)

168 points by jstanley on Jan 15, 2024 | 115 comments

7942.

Funimation End of Services (help.funimation.com)

168 points by ajdude on Feb 8, 2024 | 114 comments

7943.

Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars? (milescole.dev)

168 points by RobinL on Dec 14, 2024 | 114 comments

7944.

Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019) (twobithistory.org)

168 points by meribold on Jun 26, 2024 | 112 comments

7945.

C++ left arrow operator (2016) (atnnn.com)

168 points by layer8 on Mar 24, 2024 | 111 comments

7946.

Llama 3 8B is almost as good as Wizard 2 8x22B (huggingface.co)

168 points by tosh on Apr 19, 2024 | 111 comments

7947.

Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse (techcrunch.com)

168 points by croes on Apr 10, 2024 | 110 comments

7948.

FCC seek comments on NextNav petition for rulemaking on lower 900MHz ISM band (docs.fcc.gov)

168 points by pera on Aug 12, 2024 | 106 comments

7949.

Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study (nautil.us)

168 points by dnetesn on Jan 4, 2024 | 102 comments

7950.

UI = f(statesⁿ) (daverupert.com)

168 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 16, 2024 | 101 comments