HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

91.

I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012) (jdstillwater.blogspot.com)

525 points by ctoth on Aug 13, 2024 | 323 comments

92.

GitHub was down (github.com)

525 points by frabjoused on Aug 14, 2024 | 256 comments

93.

Markov chains are funnier than LLMs (emnudge.dev)

525 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 18, 2024 | 233 comments

94.

Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason (phoboslab.org)

524 points by zichy on Aug 4, 2024 | 132 comments

95.

17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist (torrentfreak.com)

521 points by isaacfrond on Aug 23, 2024 | 228 comments

96.

No Salt (jakeseliger.com)

518 points by jdkee on Aug 6, 2024 | 165 comments

97.

Google Pixel 9 Pro (store.google.com)

514 points by ksec on Aug 13, 2024 | 1170 comments

98.

The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning (srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

513 points by superposeur on Aug 2, 2024 | 398 comments

99.

Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users (brave.com)

511 points by NayamAmarshe on Aug 29, 2024 | 311 comments

100.

A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g (roitman.io)

509 points by signa11 on Aug 10, 2024 | 330 comments

101.

East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses (theguardian.com)

509 points by n1b0m on Aug 6, 2024 | 289 comments

102.

Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync (pglite.dev)

509 points by samwillis on Aug 12, 2024 | 108 comments

103.

Crows are even smarter than we thought (nautil.us)

506 points by dnetesn on Aug 30, 2024 | 287 comments

104.

Firefox Browser Ported to HaikuOS (discuss.haiku-os.org)

504 points by return_0e on Aug 11, 2024 | 214 comments

105.

Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out (csoonline.com)

497 points by miles on Aug 17, 2024 | 311 comments

106.

Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found (dfarq.homeip.net)

496 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 5, 2024 | 216 comments

107.

I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go (github.com)

492 points by ccgzirim on Aug 1, 2024 | 117 comments

108.

Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV (github.com)

492 points by edward on Aug 18, 2024 | 84 comments

109.

X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum (fortune.com)

488 points by pzmarzly on Aug 17, 2024 | 440 comments

110.

Okay, I Like WezTerm (alexplescan.com)

488 points by alexpls on Aug 12, 2024 | 275 comments

111.

I Created 175 Fonts Using Rust (chevyray.dev)

487 points by azhenley on Aug 10, 2024 | 110 comments

112.

Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf] (texasattorneygeneral.gov)

485 points by jonhohle on Aug 14, 2024 | 330 comments

113.

OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews (otranscribe.com)

482 points by zerojames on Aug 9, 2024 | 103 comments

114.

Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail (maragu.dev)

479 points by markusw on Aug 12, 2024 | 798 comments

115.

Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs (github.com)

479 points by eigenvalue on Aug 9, 2024 | 172 comments

116.

NASA investigation finds Boeing hindering Americans' return to moon (flyingmag.com)

478 points by hobermallow on Aug 12, 2024 | 383 comments

117.

Stop Killing Games (eci.ec.europa.eu)

478 points by r1chardnl on Aug 5, 2024 | 255 comments

118.

Maker Skill Trees (github.com)

478 points by saulpw on Aug 28, 2024 | 104 comments

119.

Please do not attempt to simplify this code (github.com)

472 points by whalesalad on Aug 6, 2024 | 310 comments

120.

Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition (discrete.openmathbooks.org)

471 points by yawboakye on Aug 16, 2024 | 65 comments