HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

Embeddings are underrated (2024) (technicalwriting.dev)

482 points by jxmorris12 on May 12, 2025 | 150 comments

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Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine (solarshades.club)

480 points by notarobot123 11 months ago | 647 comments

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108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (hirox-europe.com)

475 points by twalichiewicz on May 1, 2025 | 138 comments

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Japan Post launches 'digital address' system (japantimes.co.jp)

474 points by jmsflknr 11 months ago | 295 comments

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Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 (telegraph.co.uk)

472 points by wslh 11 months ago | 1248 comments

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Ditching Obsidian and building my own (amberwilliams.io)

471 points by williamsss 11 months ago | 559 comments

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Google shared my phone number (danq.me)

470 points by luu 11 months ago | 175 comments

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Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war (insideevs.com)

465 points by rntn on May 11, 2025 | 810 comments

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As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook (hamatti.org)

464 points by ingve 11 months ago | 290 comments

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Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge (yle.fi)

461 points by axelfontaine 11 months ago | 446 comments

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Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US (developer.apple.com)

461 points by macguillicuddy on May 2, 2025 | 344 comments

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Observations from people-watching (skincontact.substack.com)

461 points by jger15 on May 10, 2025 | 227 comments

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Writing that changed how I think about programming languages (bernsteinbear.com)

461 points by r4um 11 months ago | 60 comments

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Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire (bloomberg.com)

460 points by mfiguiere on May 3, 2025 | 413 comments

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How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully (frontiersin.org)

460 points by layer8 11 months ago | 145 comments

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Flattening Rust’s learning curve (corrode.dev)

458 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 397 comments

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Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails (htxt.co.za)

458 points by Improvement 11 months ago | 325 comments

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Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes (github.com)

458 points by todsacerdoti on May 3, 2025 | 123 comments

139.

Claude Code SDK (docs.anthropic.com)

454 points by sync 11 months ago | 194 comments

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Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help (linkedin.com)

453 points by indigodaddy on May 6, 2025 | 240 comments

141.

Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook (commandline.stribny.name)

453 points by petr25102018 11 months ago | 109 comments

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Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden (thewrap.com)

452 points by dale_huevo 11 months ago | 610 comments

143.

Litestream: Revamped (fly.io)

452 points by usrme 11 months ago | 99 comments

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US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired (theregister.com)

451 points by croes on May 12, 2025 | 393 comments

145.

Third party cookies must be removed (w3ctag.github.io)

451 points by pabs3 on May 2, 2025 | 228 comments

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Deepseek R1-0528 (huggingface.co)

450 points by error404x 11 months ago | 250 comments

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Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game (ncase.me)

449 points by felineflock 11 months ago | 74 comments

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Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (arstechnica.com)

446 points by amichail on May 3, 2025 | 444 comments

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Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode (androidauthority.com)

446 points by logic_node 11 months ago | 414 comments

150.

VVVVVV Source Code (github.com)

444 points by radeeyate on May 6, 2025 | 92 comments