HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1021.

Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux (social.treehouse.systems)

146 points by jlpcsl on May 16, 2023 | 89 comments

1022.

Twitter’s DM encryption is a modest security improvement over the status quo (platformer.news)

146 points by areoform on May 16, 2023 | 70 comments

1023.

AI tool designs mRNA vaccines that are more potent and stable (nature.com)

146 points by voisin on May 7, 2023 | 58 comments

1024.

Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search [pdf] (wangzwhu.github.io)

146 points by tim_sw on May 4, 2023 | 38 comments

1025.

Nostr – Decentralized social network (nostr.com)

145 points by throwaway689236 on May 1, 2023 | 164 comments

1026.

How to make smaller C and C++ binaries (ptspts.blogspot.com)

145 points by costco on May 7, 2023 | 130 comments

1027.

Avoiding hallucinations in LLM-powered applications (vectara.com)

145 points by ofermend on May 2, 2023 | 123 comments

1028.

I lived in LA and commuted to Berkeley by plane to save on rent (old.reddit.com)

145 points by 18nleung on May 19, 2023 | 115 comments

1029.

Ask HN: What is an A.I. chip and how does it work?

145 points by rramadass on May 27, 2023 | 93 comments

1030.

Let's Talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter and Microsoft Copilot (oneusefulthing.org)

145 points by stuckinhell on May 23, 2023 | 80 comments

1031.

A relay that changed the power industry (spectrum.ieee.org)

145 points by sohkamyung on May 27, 2023 | 36 comments

1032.

Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy (sfchronicle.com)

144 points by endtwist on May 9, 2023 | 347 comments

1033.

Xterm: It's better than you thought (2021) (aduros.com)

144 points by ecliptik on May 1, 2023 | 131 comments

1034.

My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (1919) (archive.org)

144 points by cbracketdash on May 18, 2023 | 62 comments

1035.

RedisRaft (github.com)

144 points by anhldbk on May 7, 2023 | 50 comments

1036.

John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020) (raganwald.com)

144 points by warrenm on May 16, 2023 | 24 comments

1037.

Asus Ally Emulates PS3, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360 with Ease (tomshardware.com)

143 points by thunderbong on May 15, 2023 | 203 comments

1038.

A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert (hcn.org)

143 points by bikenaga on May 15, 2023 | 137 comments

1039.

Jails on FreeBSD (ogris.de)

143 points by rodrigo975 on May 25, 2023 | 114 comments

1040.

Bluesky's AT Protocol - Federation Architecture Overview (blueskyweb.xyz)

143 points by capableweb on May 5, 2023 | 82 comments

1041.

Devil Mode for Emacs (susam.github.io)

143 points by susam on May 14, 2023 | 78 comments

1042.

New Arm cores deliver up to 40% better performance (phonescoop.com)

143 points by mikece on May 29, 2023 | 78 comments

1043.

The Rails Doctrine (rubyonrails.org)

143 points by thunderbong on May 13, 2023 | 55 comments

1044.

A Chicago newspaper that bought a bar (2017) (topic.com)

143 points by Brajeshwar on May 22, 2023 | 26 comments

1045.

Show HN: Postgres query lock explainer (github.com)

143 points by admtal on May 17, 2023 | 14 comments

1046.

The UX Research Reckoning is Here (medium.com)

142 points by azhenley on May 29, 2023 | 218 comments

1047.

Ketamine no better than placebo at alleviating depression, unusual trial finds (science.org)

142 points by theNewMicrosoft on May 22, 2023 | 189 comments

1048.

US Supreme Court leaves protections for internet companies unscathed (reuters.com)

142 points by LinuxBender on May 19, 2023 | 111 comments

1049.

Are mental health apps better or worse at privacy in 2023? (foundation.mozilla.org)

142 points by light94 on May 2, 2023 | 82 comments

1050.

DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet (arxiv.org)

142 points by rajtilakjee on May 21, 2023 | 59 comments