HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

211.

How many radioactive bananas would you need to power a house? (what-if.xkcd.com)

387 points by notRobot on May 6, 2022 | 168 comments

212.

Implementation of Imagen, Google's text-to-image neural network, in PyTorch (github.com)

387 points by CesarERM on May 26, 2022 | 117 comments

213.

My experience getting a tech job with no degree or relevant work experience (lowlyswe.substack.com)

386 points by leesec on May 1, 2022 | 283 comments

214.

Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives (nature.com)

386 points by michaelwm on May 16, 2022 | 219 comments

215.

When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps (twitter.com)

385 points by yread on May 11, 2022 | 173 comments

216.

On Aging Alone (2021) (thewalrus.ca)

383 points by drdee on May 21, 2022 | 316 comments

217.

McDonald’s to Exit from Russia (corporate.mcdonalds.com)

382 points by richardboegli on May 16, 2022 | 361 comments

218.

The Xinjiang Police Files (xinjiangpolicefiles.org)

382 points by int_10h on May 24, 2022 | 317 comments

219.

Terraform should have remained stateless (bejarano.io)

381 points by ricardbejarano on May 28, 2022 | 319 comments

220.

A group of open source Android apps without ads or unnecessary permissions (simplemobiletools.com)

380 points by memorable on May 24, 2022 | 166 comments

221.

Grandpa’s Basement House (granolashotgun.com)

378 points by cubix on May 22, 2022 | 258 comments

222.

Everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (xn--rpa.cc)

377 points by melissalobos on May 17, 2022 | 177 comments

223.

NaturalSpeech: End-to-end text to speech synthesis with human-level quality (speechresearch.github.io)

377 points by phsilva on May 17, 2022 | 149 comments

224.

Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy (asia.nikkei.com)

375 points by ksec on May 15, 2022 | 290 comments

225.

What One-person SaaS Healthchecks.io uses for hosting, hardware and software (blog.healthchecks.io)

373 points by slyall on May 24, 2022 | 175 comments

226.

GraphQL Is a Trap? (xuorig.medium.com)

371 points by mgiroux on May 6, 2022 | 465 comments

227.

USB Cheat Sheet (fabiensanglard.net)

371 points by WithinReason on May 5, 2022 | 168 comments

228.

Cron-based backup for SQLite (litestream.io)

370 points by davnicwil on May 15, 2022 | 82 comments

229.

Magical SVG Techniques (smashingmagazine.com)

370 points by marban on May 25, 2022 | 44 comments

230.

Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste (news.utexas.edu)

369 points by FrankyHollywood on May 18, 2022 | 274 comments

231.

Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions (alexanderell.is)

369 points by otras on May 21, 2022 | 132 comments

232.

`curl wttr.in`: Weather in your terminal (github.com)

368 points by cercatrova on May 15, 2022 | 143 comments

233.

Friendlier SQL with DuckDB (duckdb.org)

366 points by hfmuehleisen on May 12, 2022 | 133 comments

234.

I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it (tristrumtuttle.medium.com)

365 points by ttuttle on May 24, 2022 | 195 comments

235.

The Verge is so bad they have me defending Apple [video] (youtube.com)

362 points by mikece on May 22, 2022 | 113 comments

236.

The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now (xkcd.com)

361 points by lakis on May 10, 2022 | 325 comments

237.

European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids (lightbluetouchpaper.org)

361 points by gnufx on May 11, 2022 | 187 comments

238.

Why Jony Ive left Apple to the ‘accountants’ (nytimes.com)

358 points by mcone on May 1, 2022 | 592 comments

239.

NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers (nysenate.gov)

358 points by KoftaBob on May 9, 2022 | 543 comments

240.

Windows XP Delta Edition (xpdelta.weebly.com)

358 points by kosasbest on May 21, 2022 | 214 comments