HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

121.

Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better (gkogan.co)

470 points by mooreds on Aug 26, 2024 | 190 comments

122.

OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20 (stevecoast.substack.com)

470 points by gemanor on Aug 11, 2024 | 138 comments

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Ex-Kansas police chief who raided local newspaper criminally charged (theguardian.com)

469 points by howard941 on Aug 13, 2024 | 92 comments

124.

Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over (thebignewsletter.com)

468 points by eatonphil on Aug 29, 2024 | 498 comments

125.

Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming (shi-yan.github.io)

468 points by billconan on Aug 4, 2024 | 73 comments

126.

Galois Theory (golem.ph.utexas.edu)

467 points by mathgenius on Aug 15, 2024 | 234 comments

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Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable (matthewball.co)

466 points by mfiguiere on Aug 19, 2024 | 564 comments

128.

p5.js (p5js.org)

464 points by alabhyajindal on Aug 3, 2024 | 68 comments

129.

Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright (sakisv.net)

462 points by sakisv on Aug 6, 2024 | 210 comments

130.

USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation (blog.smithsecurity.biz)

460 points by wglb on Aug 8, 2024 | 301 comments

131.

The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud (berthub.eu)

456 points by ahubert on Aug 19, 2024 | 251 comments

132.

The semantic web is now widely adopted (csvbase.com)

455 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 21, 2024 | 259 comments

133.

Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture (praachi.work)

455 points by abhas9 on Aug 14, 2024 | 220 comments

134.

Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game (grandmasword.com)

454 points by lowercarbon on Aug 11, 2024 | 150 comments

135.

Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing (horovits.medium.com)

453 points by taubek on Aug 25, 2024 | 407 comments

136.

US Government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button (apnews.com)

451 points by speckx on Aug 12, 2024 | 206 comments

137.

How to build a 50k ton forging press (construction-physics.com)

451 points by chmaynard on Aug 21, 2024 | 188 comments

138.

Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits (gizmodo.com)

450 points by rntn on Aug 29, 2024 | 119 comments

139.

Hot Page – a graphical site builder (hot.page)

449 points by microflash on Aug 24, 2024 | 107 comments

140.

Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown (arstechnica.com)

447 points by stalfosknight on Aug 6, 2024 | 159 comments

141.

Make Firefox Private Again (make-firefox-private-again.com)

445 points by eloy on Aug 21, 2024 | 334 comments

142.

The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown (zarar.dev)

435 points by recroad on Aug 20, 2024 | 266 comments

143.

How I Use "AI" (nicholas.carlini.com)

435 points by npalli on Aug 4, 2024 | 177 comments

144.

Bug squash: An underrated interview question (blog.jez.io)

434 points by jez on Aug 18, 2024 | 271 comments

145.

Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023) (yle.fi)

433 points by mji on Aug 25, 2024 | 265 comments

146.

Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer (github.com)

433 points by whatever3 on Aug 12, 2024 | 117 comments

147.

Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick (techcrunch.com)

432 points by gemanor on Aug 27, 2024 | 279 comments

148.

Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts (1fps.video)

430 points by RomanPushkin on Aug 6, 2024 | 124 comments

149.

The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script (jointhefollowup.com)

429 points by nicconley on Aug 6, 2024 | 269 comments

150.

Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video] (tom7.org)

425 points by pabs3 on Aug 31, 2024 | 71 comments