HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6001.

Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013) (discovermagazine.com)

229 points by 1970-01-01 on Jan 29, 2025 | 168 comments

6002.

The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf] (lua.org)

229 points by welovebunnies 7 months ago | 168 comments

6003.

Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked (wired.com)

229 points by mikece 9 months ago | 162 comments

6004.

AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning (seuros.com)

229 points by seuros 9 months ago | 160 comments

6005.

More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves (news.uoguelph.ca)

229 points by pseudolus 9 months ago | 159 comments

6006.

Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications (restate.dev)

229 points by sewen on Jan 24, 2025 | 155 comments

6007.

Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy (societyforscience.org)

229 points by felineflock 11 months ago | 149 comments

6008.

Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library (lithub.com)

229 points by pseudolus on Jan 29, 2025 | 144 comments

6009.

Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk (noelrappin.com)

229 points by jrochkind1 6 months ago | 143 comments

6010.

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server (github.com)

229 points by lharries on Mar 31, 2025 | 138 comments

6011.

Lightcell: An engine that uses light to make electricity (lightcellenergy.com)

229 points by curl-up on Jan 14, 2025 | 137 comments

6012.

Extensible WASM Applications with Go (go.dev)

229 points by ingve on Feb 14, 2025 | 123 comments

6013.

Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter (andonlabs.com)

229 points by lukaspetersson 6 months ago | 117 comments

6014.

France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS? (grapheneos.social)

229 points by gabrielgio 5 months ago | 112 comments

6015.

GCC SC approves inclusion of Algol 68 Front End (gcc.gnu.org)

229 points by edelsohn 5 months ago | 111 comments

6016.

Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained

229 points by jahnu on Mar 16, 2025 | 109 comments

6017.

My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024) (fangpenlin.com)

229 points by leonry on Mar 5, 2025 | 97 comments

6018.

Emacs is my new window manager (2015) (howardism.org)

229 points by gpi 5 months ago | 88 comments

6019.

Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf] (gwern.net)

229 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 84 comments

6020.

Bare metal printf – C standard library without OS (popovicu.com)

229 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 26, 2025 | 81 comments

6021.

Mac Themes Garden (damien.zone)

229 points by speckx on May 7, 2025 | 79 comments

6022.

The Missing Nvidia GPU Glossary (modal.com)

229 points by birdculture on Jan 12, 2025 | 70 comments

6023.

Scallop – A Language for Neurosymbolic Programming (scallop-lang.org)

229 points by andsoitis on Mar 22, 2025 | 64 comments

6024.

Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi (smallstep.com)

229 points by timkq on Jan 19, 2025 | 54 comments

6025.

Ultima VII: Revisited (u7revisited.com)

229 points by ibobev on Feb 23, 2025 | 54 comments

6026.

Muons used to test the condition of a road bridge in Estonia (news.err.ee)

229 points by Fethbita on Mar 16, 2025 | 51 comments

6027.

Show HN: What Is Hacker News Working On? (waywo.eamag.me)

229 points by eamag 6 months ago | 51 comments

6028.

Hacking the Postgres wire protocol (pgdog.dev)

229 points by levkk on Apr 15, 2025 | 50 comments

6029.

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All the Bullshit (2015) (jeremykun.com)

229 points by ibobev on Apr 16, 2025 | 48 comments

6030.

How Compiler Explorer Works in 2025 (xania.org)

229 points by vitaut 11 months ago | 45 comments