HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

181.

"A computer can never be held accountable" (simonwillison.net)

444 points by zdw on Feb 3, 2025 | 294 comments

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AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them' (livescience.com)

444 points by anonymousiam on Feb 23, 2025 | 292 comments

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Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover (news.ufl.edu)

443 points by gudzpoz on Feb 28, 2025 | 249 comments

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Why it's so hard to build a jet engine (construction-physics.com)

443 points by mhb on Feb 28, 2025 | 208 comments

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The Sims Game Design Documents (1997) (donhopkins.com)

443 points by krykp on Feb 16, 2025 | 60 comments

186.

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (jiha-kim.github.io)

442 points by ibobev on Feb 24, 2025 | 70 comments

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DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs (github.com)

441 points by helloericsf on Feb 24, 2025 | 108 comments

188.

Show HN: Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby (github.com)

440 points by calcsam on Feb 19, 2025 | 154 comments

189.

Servo's progress in 2024 (servo.org)

439 points by brson on Feb 5, 2025 | 184 comments

190.

OCR4all (ocr4all.org)

434 points by LorenDB on Feb 14, 2025 | 124 comments

191.

Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450 (sky.cs.berkeley.edu)

429 points by 9woc on Feb 21, 2025 | 69 comments

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1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected (tuhs.org)

425 points by henry_flower on Feb 19, 2025 | 148 comments

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Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1 (docs.docker.com)

424 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 21, 2025 | 447 comments

194.

'Hey Number 17 ' (404media.co)

424 points by Amorymeltzer on Feb 25, 2025 | 157 comments

195.

What really happens inside a dating app (blog.luap.info)

423 points by polote on Feb 3, 2025 | 357 comments

196.

iMac G4(K) (jcs.org)

423 points by ingve on Feb 26, 2025 | 169 comments

197.

Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities (kevin.burke.dev)

420 points by kevinburke on Feb 7, 2025 | 394 comments

198.

Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything (smithsonianmag.com)

420 points by Hooke on Feb 18, 2025 | 173 comments

199.

Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting (theverge.com)

416 points by ambigious7777 on Feb 11, 2025 | 507 comments

200.

Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1 (crocspace.substack.com)

416 points by lzr_mihnea on Feb 24, 2025 | 117 comments

201.

DOGE as a National Cyberattack (schneier.com)

413 points by mikece on Feb 13, 2025 | 211 comments

202.

Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video] (youtube.com)

413 points by esbudylin on Feb 7, 2025 | 68 comments

203.

I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease (old.reddit.com)

411 points by makehistory on Feb 10, 2025 | 299 comments

204.

Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist (breakout.lecaro.me)

411 points by lecarore on Feb 26, 2025 | 186 comments

205.

What if Eye...? (eyes.mit.edu)

411 points by smusamashah on Feb 14, 2025 | 91 comments

206.

But good sir, what is electricity? (lcamtuf.substack.com)

410 points by rapawel on Feb 23, 2025 | 211 comments

207.

Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step() (iquilezles.org)

409 points by romes on Feb 9, 2025 | 229 comments

208.

Write to Escape Your Default Setting (kupajo.com)

406 points by kolyder on Feb 28, 2025 | 93 comments

209.

Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone (discuss.systems)

404 points by luu on Feb 25, 2025 | 549 comments

210.

YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (old.reddit.com)

403 points by Tijdreiziger on Feb 17, 2025 | 274 comments