HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries (blog.sylver.dev)

216 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 19, 2025 | 27 comments

512.

NESFab – A new programming language for creating NES games (pubby.games)

216 points by redbell on Feb 10, 2025 | 21 comments

513.

Doge Claimed It Saved $8B in One Contract. It Was $8M (nytimes.com)

215 points by xnx on Feb 19, 2025 | 125 comments

514.

What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP? (github.com)

215 points by Hawzen on Feb 25, 2025 | 113 comments

515.

A vending machine, on the internet (threekindwords.com)

215 points by EFFALO on Feb 18, 2025 | 84 comments

516.

Complex dynamics require complex solutions (mathstodon.xyz)

214 points by ckemere on Feb 14, 2025 | 143 comments

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DARPA Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures (sam.gov)

214 points by jfantl on Feb 26, 2025 | 99 comments

518.

New horizons for Julia (lwn.net)

214 points by leephillips on Feb 20, 2025 | 80 comments

519.

Launch HN: Maritime Fusion (YC W25) – Fusion Reactors for Ships

213 points by jtcohen on Feb 26, 2025 | 261 comments

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Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) (setosa.io)

213 points by mrcgnc on Feb 28, 2025 | 26 comments

521.

Intel's Battlemage Architecture (chipsandcheese.com)

212 points by ksec on Feb 11, 2025 | 145 comments

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OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp (github.com)

212 points by varjag on Feb 5, 2025 | 61 comments

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Notes on OpenAI o3-mini (simonwillison.net)

211 points by dtquad on Feb 1, 2025 | 76 comments

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Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing (radfoam.github.io)

211 points by w-m on Feb 4, 2025 | 23 comments

525.

Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family (hms.harvard.edu)

210 points by jimmytucson on Feb 7, 2025 | 170 comments

526.

Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)? (dynomight.net)

210 points by gregorymichael on Feb 13, 2025 | 157 comments

527.

Ghostwriter – use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs (github.com)

210 points by wonger_ on Feb 8, 2025 | 80 comments

528.

A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter (noemamag.com)

209 points by Hooke on Feb 26, 2025 | 225 comments

529.

World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial (wehi.edu.au)

209 points by femto on Feb 27, 2025 | 77 comments

530.

OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser (opendaw.studio)

208 points by raggi on Feb 9, 2025 | 130 comments

531.

Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots (github.com)

208 points by gkamer8 on Feb 6, 2025 | 100 comments

532.

Apple pulls encrypted iCloud security feature in UK amid backdoor demands (macrumors.com)

208 points by tosh on Feb 21, 2025 | 3 comments

533.

Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla' (thedrive.com)

207 points by computerliker on Feb 11, 2025 | 219 comments

534.

The Iconic 3DBenchy Enters the Public Domain (nti-group.com)

207 points by kotaKat on Feb 14, 2025 | 29 comments

535.

Alan Turing's "Delilah" project (spectrum.ieee.org)

207 points by pseudolus on Feb 4, 2025 | 25 comments

536.

GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens (github.blog)

206 points by meetpateltech on Feb 6, 2025 | 251 comments

537.

Elon Musk's Demolition Crew (projects.propublica.org)

205 points by raybb on Feb 7, 2025 | 348 comments

538.

Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?

205 points by resource_waste on Feb 14, 2025 | 107 comments

539.

How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed (reuters.com)

204 points by comebhack on Feb 12, 2025 | 303 comments

540.

Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022) (efavdb.com)

204 points by yamrzou on Feb 2, 2025 | 203 comments