HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed (petapixel.com)

175 points by alex_young on Jan 26, 2025 | 138 comments

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Getting silly with C, part (void*)2 (lcamtuf.substack.com)

175 points by justmarc on Jan 10, 2025 | 115 comments

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Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system (qubes-os.org)

175 points by doener on Jan 12, 2025 | 115 comments

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Operation Leg – a pilot unlike any other (2020) (rafbf.org)

175 points by FinnLobsien on Jan 27, 2025 | 77 comments

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Sky-scanning complete for Gaia (esa.int)

175 points by sohkamyung on Jan 15, 2025 | 67 comments

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A standards-first web framework (nuejs.org)

174 points by tipiirai on Jan 16, 2025 | 215 comments

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Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search (techcrunch.com)

174 points by ungut on Jan 18, 2025 | 139 comments

698.

Show HN: I made a mini golf in my lunch time (paper-golf.netlify.app)

174 points by heyarviind2 on Jan 18, 2025 | 83 comments

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Rational or not? This basic math question took decades to answer (quantamagazine.org)

173 points by nsoonhui on Jan 9, 2025 | 137 comments

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Lord of the Io_uring (2020) (unixism.net)

173 points by LAC-Tech on Jan 6, 2025 | 62 comments

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Dusa Programming Language (Finite-Choice Logic Programming) (dusa.rocks)

173 points by febin on Jan 18, 2025 | 45 comments

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How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers (blog.railway.com)

172 points by eckles on Jan 24, 2025 | 118 comments

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Show HN: Onit – Source-available ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini (github.com)

172 points by telenardo on Jan 24, 2025 | 58 comments

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Dead Games (garry.net)

172 points by LorenDB on Jan 29, 2025 | 57 comments

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The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago (english.elpais.com)

171 points by geox on Jan 12, 2025 | 219 comments

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Three AM 911 call, 9 AM salesman (a.wholelottanothing.org)

171 points by wawayanda on Jan 31, 2025 | 83 comments

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Nokia Design Archive (nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi)

171 points by microflash on Jan 16, 2025 | 58 comments

708.

The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience (surfingcomplexity.blog)

171 points by mooreds on Jan 12, 2025 | 48 comments

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Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world (river-runner-global.samlearner.com)

171 points by kawera on Jan 26, 2025 | 42 comments

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The Honorable Parts (scopeofwork.net)

171 points by speckx on Jan 6, 2025 | 38 comments

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LLMs and Code Optimization (wiredream.com)

171 points by dgacmu on Jan 6, 2025 | 25 comments

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Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More (github.com)

171 points by thunderbong on Jan 10, 2025 | 21 comments

713.

Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024) (lukeplant.me.uk)

170 points by hwayne on Jan 21, 2025 | 252 comments

714.

Dropbox Engineering Career Framework (dropbox.github.io)

170 points by jimminyx on Jan 2, 2025 | 127 comments

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The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry (spectrum.ieee.org)

169 points by pseudolus on Jan 18, 2025 | 279 comments

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How corn syrup took over America (thehustle.co)

169 points by paulpauper on Jan 13, 2025 | 228 comments

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University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics (news.ua.edu)

169 points by thunderbong on Jan 4, 2025 | 200 comments

718.

Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (2020) (ralfj.de)