HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

901.

Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair (hubrecht.eu)

135 points by manmal on Jan 3, 2025 | 61 comments

902.

An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms (2016) (ruder.io)

135 points by skidrow on Jan 23, 2025 | 26 comments

903.

The Rise of the French Fry Cartel (jacobin.com)

134 points by ohjeez on Jan 5, 2025 | 154 comments

904.

Reflections (blog.samaltman.com)

134 points by davidbarker on Jan 6, 2025 | 112 comments

905.

PlasticList's Advice for Food Companies (twitter.com)

134 points by Jimmc414 on Jan 2, 2025 | 99 comments

906.

How hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions (arstechnica.com)

134 points by undercut on Jan 9, 2025 | 58 comments

907.

Chopstick sleeves as emissaries of Japanese typography and culture (letterformarchive.org)

134 points by NaOH on Jan 16, 2025 | 15 comments

908.

Anatomy of a Formal Proof (ams.org)

134 points by bikenaga on Jan 24, 2025 | 11 comments

909.

A path to O1 open source (arxiv.org)

133 points by bchelli on Jan 3, 2025 | 80 comments

910.

Zusie – My Relay Computer (nablaman.com)

133 points by xk3 on Jan 31, 2025 | 31 comments

911.

Diffusion training from scratch on a micro-budget (github.com)

133 points by lnyan on Jan 13, 2025 | 23 comments

912.

Chatham House Rule is suddenly everywhere in the Bay Area (sfstandard.com)

132 points by mrry on Jan 11, 2025 | 252 comments

913.

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

132 points by mgd on Jan 1, 2025 | 140 comments

914.

Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine (deevybee.blogspot.com)

132 points by mathgenius on Jan 19, 2025 | 33 comments

915.

Indexing Code at Scale with Glean (engineering.fb.com)

132 points by GavCo on Jan 1, 2025 | 30 comments

916.

Context should go away for Go 2 (2017) (faiface.github.io)

131 points by hiohio on Jan 21, 2025 | 167 comments

917.

Ask HN: Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?

131 points by ciconia on Jan 13, 2025 | 118 comments

918.

Robotics and ROS 2 Essentials (henkirobotics.com)

131 points by dtquad on Jan 17, 2025 | 106 comments

919.

The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++ (berthub.eu)

131 points by PascalW on Jan 19, 2025 | 88 comments

920.

Issues with color spaces and perceptual brightness (johnaustin.io)

131 points by todsacerdoti on Jan 17, 2025 | 65 comments

921.

Automated accessibility testing at Slack (slack.engineering)

131 points by teivah on Jan 7, 2025 | 57 comments

922.

Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin's Children Left on His Manuscripts (openculture.com)

131 points by cainxinth on Jan 15, 2025 | 50 comments

923.

Dragonfly's extreme loop-the-loops (science.org)

131 points by pseudolus on Jan 14, 2025 | 44 comments

924.

JReleaser: quick and effortless way to release your project (jreleaser.org)

131 points by saikatsg on Jan 21, 2025 | 34 comments

925.

You could have invented Fenwick trees (cambridge.org)

131 points by matt_d on Jan 25, 2025 | 28 comments

926.

Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies (tisonkun.io)

130 points by tison on Jan 15, 2025 | 145 comments

927.

Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014) (akkartik.name)

130 points by surprisetalk on Jan 13, 2025 | 132 comments

928.

Urban legend: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers (geekhistory.com)

130 points by bschne on Jan 22, 2025 | 73 comments

929.

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013) (neocomputer.org)

130 points by CharlesW on Jan 31, 2025 | 41 comments

930.

Show HN: connet – A P2P reverse proxy with NAT traversal (github.com)

130 points by Ingon on Jan 2, 2025 | 29 comments