HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1201.

Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512 (lemire.me)

128 points by mariuz on Aug 20, 2023 | 103 comments

1202.

What happened to the microfinance company Kiva? (technologyreview.com)

128 points by impish9208 on Aug 14, 2023 | 93 comments

1203.

NP-hard does not mean hard (2017) (jeremykun.com)

128 points by stefanpie on Aug 17, 2023 | 93 comments

1204.

Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do (nbcnews.com)

128 points by housemusicfan on Aug 25, 2023 | 92 comments

1205.

The FBI Has Collected DNA Profiles for 21M People (theintercept.com)

128 points by mikece on Aug 29, 2023 | 68 comments

1206.

Miyazaki’s Magical Food: An ode to anime’s best cooking scenes (seriouseats.com)

128 points by DemiGuru on Aug 1, 2023 | 63 comments

1207.

Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists (arxiv.org)

128 points by sebg on Aug 25, 2023 | 59 comments

1208.

Is Venus in some way tidally locked to Earth? (2020) (astronomy.stackexchange.com)

128 points by shmde on Aug 14, 2023 | 36 comments

1209.

OpenCopilot – Open source AI copilot for your own SaaS product (github.com)

128 points by gharbat on Aug 20, 2023 | 30 comments

1210.

What does the “pipe” value mean in the output of “ping”? (2009) (web.archive.org)

128 points by luu on Aug 3, 2023 | 24 comments

1211.

Ask HN: In which areas have you compared 3+ tools and formed strong preferences?

127 points by tikkun on Aug 1, 2023 | 201 comments

1212.

Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America (energy.gov)

127 points by geox on Aug 16, 2023 | 189 comments

1213.

Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point (techcrunch.com)

127 points by webmaven on Aug 17, 2023 | 170 comments

1214.

Adtech is built on a privacy fault line (iapp.org)

127 points by iamacyborg on Aug 2, 2023 | 169 comments

1215.

Launch HN: Stellar Sleep (YC S23) – An app that helps people with insomnia

127 points by edreichua on Aug 8, 2023 | 152 comments

1216.

Traffic safety “nudges” can cause number of crashes to increase (2022) (science.org)

127 points by apwheele on Aug 7, 2023 | 144 comments

1217.

At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being tased or tattooed (reuters.com)

127 points by striking on Aug 30, 2023 | 74 comments

1218.

Applying SRE Principles to CI/CD (buildkite.com)

127 points by mooreds on Aug 30, 2023 | 65 comments

1219.

Simple PowerShell things allowing you to dig a bit deeper than usual (github.com)

127 points by keepamovin on Aug 22, 2023 | 58 comments

1220.

Main is usually a function. So then when is it not? (2015) (jroweboy.github.io)

127 points by japrozs on Aug 8, 2023 | 55 comments

1221.

Ancient culture torched its own homes every 60 years (daily.jstor.org)

126 points by samizdis on Aug 24, 2023 | 108 comments

1222.

Tesla asked officials to redact info of driver-assistance in use during crashes (businessinsider.com)

126 points by thunderbong on Aug 22, 2023 | 104 comments

1223.

Consensus: Use AI to find insights in research papers (consensus.app)

126 points by birriel on Aug 17, 2023 | 51 comments

1224.

Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015) (play.elevatorsaga.com)

126 points by lnyan on Aug 29, 2023 | 43 comments

1225.

First-principles study on the electronic structure of Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O (x=0, 1) (arxiv.org)

126 points by DarmokJalad1701 on Aug 1, 2023 | 32 comments

1226.

Making peer-to-peer multiplayer seamless with Godot (2022) (rafa.ee)

126 points by dulvui on Aug 3, 2023 | 28 comments

1227.

Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels (evergreenoffgrid.com)

125 points by gardenfelder on Aug 10, 2023 | 161 comments

1228.

The low, low cost of committing cybercrime (isc.sans.edu)

125 points by freedude on Aug 31, 2023 | 93 comments

1229.

Unix is both a technology and an idea (utcc.utoronto.ca)

125 points by zdw on Aug 21, 2023 | 91 comments

1230.

Why ISO was retired (2021) (bkhome.org)

125 points by worez on Aug 3, 2023 | 81 comments