HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

9841.

It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices (thebignewsletter.com)

140 points by nth_degree on Aug 15, 2024 | 218 comments

9842.

We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too (theregister.com)

140 points by LinuxBender on Sep 10, 2024 | 210 comments

9843.

I've tracked every piece of clothing I've worn for three years (2021) (reaktor.com)

140 points by gaws on Sep 25, 2024 | 207 comments

9844.

A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class (longreads.com)

140 points by mooreds on Sep 17, 2024 | 200 comments

9845.

Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators (the74million.org)

140 points by andygcook on Jan 20, 2024 | 198 comments

9846.

Functional languages should be so much better at mutation than they are (cohost.org)

140 points by injuly on Jul 30, 2024 | 181 comments

9847.

The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes (thecookscook.com)

140 points by classichasclass on Oct 30, 2024 | 168 comments

9848.

Hacking the genome of fungi for smart foods of the future (sciencedaily.com)

140 points by laurex on Mar 26, 2024 | 160 comments

9849.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Navy SEALs' efficiency secret (navyseal.com)

140 points by squircle on Aug 15, 2024 | 154 comments

9850.

The Emacsen family, the design of an Emacs and the importance of Lisp (2023) (emacsconf.org)

140 points by oumua_don17 on Feb 16, 2024 | 153 comments

9851.

Ask HN: Am I crazy or is Android development awful?

140 points by iiJDSii on Jul 24, 2024 | 153 comments

9852.

Blocking code is a leaky abstraction (notgull.net)

140 points by zdw on Oct 19, 2024 | 145 comments

9853.

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

9854.

NASA selects a plan to "swarm" Proxima Centauri with tiny probes (sciencealert.com)

140 points by Brajeshwar on Jan 10, 2024 | 133 comments

9855.

A man who invented VR goggles 50 years too soon (2016) (spectrum.ieee.org)

140 points by andsoitis on Feb 1, 2024 | 110 comments

9856.

Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-Speech (listenly.io)

140 points by evan_ry on Jul 14, 2024 | 109 comments

9857.

What is the point of an online conference? (scattered-thoughts.net)

140 points by jamii on Nov 1, 2024 | 106 comments

9858.

John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000) (amnh.org)

140 points by mikequinlan on Jan 13, 2024 | 99 comments

9859.

JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons (about.jstor.org)

140 points by mdlincoln on Feb 26, 2024 | 96 comments

9860.

Norwegian fishermen hunting for halibut caught a US nuclear sub (vice.com)

140 points by marban on Nov 15, 2024 | 96 comments

9861.

Dell lays off 12,500 people (theregister.com)

140 points by roonilwaslib on Aug 6, 2024 | 95 comments

9862.

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

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

9863.

All Aboard the Bureaucracy Train (asteriskmag.com)

140 points by zaik on Feb 26, 2024 | 92 comments

9864.

k on pdp11 (ktye.github.io)

140 points by tosh on Jan 8, 2024 | 91 comments

9865.

Real-Time Settlers of Catan (robert.ocallahan.org)

140 points by Ivoah on Jun 10, 2024 | 89 comments

9866.

Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source (theregister.com)

140 points by Brajeshwar on Oct 26, 2024 | 88 comments

9867.

Waymo and Hyundai enter multi-year, strategic partnership (waymo.com)

140 points by ra7 on Oct 4, 2024 | 85 comments

9868.

Lossless Log Aggregation – Reduce Log Volume by 99% Without Dropping Data (bit.kevinslin.com)

140 points by benshumaker on Dec 6, 2024 | 84 comments

9869.

Rewriting Rust: A Response (gavinhoward.com)

140 points by gavinhoward on Sep 27, 2024 | 83 comments

9870.

Slimming Down Windows 3.1/3.11 (2002) (geocities.ws)

140 points by userbinator on Feb 24, 2024 | 82 comments