HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5971.

What's Under Your Feet in New York City? (practical.engineering)

204 points by sohkamyung 1 month ago | 55 comments

5972.

Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake (ppo.gradexp.xyz)

204 points by c1b 3 months ago | 47 comments

5973.

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com)

204 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 47 comments

5974.

Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024) (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

204 points by HeliumHydride 5 months ago | 41 comments

5975.

How to make Firefox builds 17% faster (blog.farre.se)

204 points by mbitsnbites 5 months ago | 37 comments

5976.

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (meshdiff.com)

204 points by projscope 1 month ago | 25 comments

5977.

The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning (2023) (mitpress.mit.edu)

204 points by AlexeyBrin 7 months ago | 23 comments

5978.

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA (github.com)

204 points by yu3zhou4 3 months ago | 18 comments

5979.

MIT Living Wage Calculator (livingwage.mit.edu)

203 points by bear_with_me 7 months ago | 296 comments

5980.

A case for Go as the best language for AI agents (getbruin.com)

203 points by karakanb 6 months ago | 293 comments

5981.

How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+ (arstechnica.com)

203 points by CrypticShift 1 week ago | 256 comments

5982.

No Skill. No Taste (blog.kinglycrow.com)

203 points by ianbutler 6 months ago | 208 comments

5983.

US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market (ft.com)

203 points by 23pointsNorth 1 month ago | 201 comments

5984.

The unbearable cheapness of open weight models (jamesoclaire.com)

203 points by ddxv 2 months ago | 186 comments

5985.

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp (scotto.me)

203 points by silcoon 1 month ago | 170 comments

5986.

2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews (blog.icml.cc)

203 points by sergdigon 5 months ago | 159 comments

5987.

ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI (espressif.com)

203 points by topspin 5 months ago | 149 comments

5988.

Thomann takes legal action against Fender (thomann.de)

203 points by Audiophilip 2 months ago | 140 comments

5989.

LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation (blog.documentfoundation.org)

203 points by eisa01 5 months ago | 131 comments

5990.

Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021) (blogit.michelin.io)

203 points by smartmic 5 months ago | 124 comments

5991.

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language (news.mit.edu)

203 points by theanonymousone 1 week ago | 110 comments

5992.

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (cs.uml.edu)

203 points by spiffytech 6 months ago | 107 comments

5993.

US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards (theguardian.com)

203 points by KnuthIsGod 6 months ago | 96 comments

5994.

How I use Obsidian (2023) (stephango.com)

203 points by hisamafahri 6 months ago | 94 comments

5995.

High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)

203 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 79 comments

5996.

TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source (adguard-vpn.com)

203 points by kumrayu 7 months ago | 66 comments

5997.

The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat (rferl.org)

203 points by Cider9986 3 months ago | 66 comments

5998.

Sampling at negative temperature (cavendishlabs.org)

203 points by ag8 8 months ago | 60 comments

5999.

I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025) (gauthier-lechevalier.com)

203 points by GL26 2 months ago | 60 comments

6000.

Phoenix LiveView 1.2 (phoenixframework.org)

203 points by ksec 2 months ago | 58 comments