HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

361.

What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images (quantamagazine.org)

240 points by VHRanger on Aug 2, 2024 | 432 comments

362.

What If Data Is a Bad Idea? (schmud.de)

239 points by surprisetalk on Aug 19, 2024 | 129 comments

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A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard (texasmonthly.com)

239 points by anarbadalov on Aug 16, 2024 | 96 comments

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What's Going on in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

239 points by taywrobel on Aug 22, 2024 | 70 comments

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Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible (spectrum.ieee.org)

238 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 20, 2024 | 60 comments

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Raspberry Pi Pico does line rate 100M Ethernet (github.com)

237 points by rscott2049 on Aug 29, 2024 | 65 comments

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Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+ (fortune.com)

236 points by mgh2 on Aug 31, 2024 | 234 comments

368.

Just use Postgres (mccue.dev)

236 points by refset on Aug 17, 2024 | 228 comments

369.

What you learn by making a new programming language (ntietz.com)

235 points by kaycebasques on Aug 13, 2024 | 133 comments

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Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit (arstechnica.com)

235 points by fortran77 on Aug 20, 2024 | 96 comments

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Debugging a rustc segfault on Illumos (sunshowers.io)

235 points by steveklabnik on Aug 5, 2024 | 58 comments

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Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships (softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)

234 points by rbanffy on Aug 16, 2024 | 130 comments

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Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

234 points by macklinkachorn on Aug 13, 2024 | 116 comments

374.

Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair (404media.co)

234 points by worik on Aug 28, 2024 | 114 comments

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Intel SGX Fuse Key0, a.k.a. Root Provisioning Key Was Extracted by Researchers (twitter.com)

234 points by tiagod on Aug 26, 2024 | 71 comments

376.

Renderings Created with Only a Pencil (core77.com)

234 points by surprisetalk on Aug 16, 2024 | 64 comments

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Rnote – Sketch and take handwritten notes (github.com)

234 points by Brajeshwar on Aug 25, 2024 | 30 comments

378.

An open-source flow battery kit (dualpower.supply)

233 points by idamantium on Aug 13, 2024 | 108 comments

379.

Are you better than a language model at predicting the next word? (joel.tools)

233 points by JoelEinbinder on Aug 17, 2024 | 103 comments

380.

ArchiveTeam Warrior (warrior.archiveteam.org)

233 points by xnx on Aug 2, 2024 | 67 comments

381.

Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone (osintteam.blog)

233 points by droidrat on Aug 13, 2024 | 47 comments

382.

Making your own hot sauce (successfulsoftware.net)

232 points by hermitcrab on Aug 4, 2024 | 202 comments

383.

Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off (reason.com)

232 points by heavyset_go on Aug 25, 2024 | 146 comments

384.

Self-Compressing Neural Networks (arxiv.org)

232 points by bilsbie on Aug 4, 2024 | 55 comments

385.

Don’t let your domain name become a sitting duck (krebsonsecurity.com)

231 points by mfkp on Aug 1, 2024 | 91 comments

386.

Typing lists and tuples in Elixir (elixir-lang.org)

231 points by idmitrievsky on Aug 28, 2024 | 52 comments

387.

Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes (wired.com)

230 points by bookofjoe on Aug 10, 2024 | 84 comments

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AudioFlux: A C/C++ library for audio and music analysis (github.com)

230 points by CMLab on Aug 13, 2024 | 54 comments

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No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda (switowski.com)

229 points by tybulewicz on Aug 22, 2024 | 265 comments

390.

Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra (terathon.com)

229 points by ibobev on Aug 24, 2024 | 116 comments