HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

271.

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (thetimes.com)

295 points by _tk_ on Oct 5, 2024 | 112 comments

272.

Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers (arxiv.org)

295 points by sebg on Oct 17, 2024 | 41 comments

273.

The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data (datavizcatalogue.com)

295 points by sea-gold on Oct 5, 2024 | 34 comments

274.

Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines (digipres.club)

294 points by NotPractical on Oct 16, 2024 | 162 comments

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The global surveillance free-for-all in mobile ad data (krebsonsecurity.com)

294 points by todsacerdoti on Oct 23, 2024 | 162 comments

276.

uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address (github.com)

292 points by gslin on Oct 7, 2024 | 128 comments

277.

Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars (niemanlab.org)

291 points by giuliomagnifico on Oct 5, 2024 | 572 comments

278.

Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo (nobelprize.org)

290 points by danielskogly on Oct 11, 2024 | 356 comments

279.

LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday (github.com)

290 points by stereoabuse on Oct 4, 2024 | 142 comments

280.

Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading (github.com)

290 points by maoserr on Oct 21, 2024 | 43 comments

281.

MQTT turns 25 (andypiper.co.uk)

289 points by andypiper on Oct 22, 2024 | 74 comments

282.

Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free (dmytroengineering.com)

289 points by Luc on Oct 28, 2024 | 44 comments

283.

C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte (open-std.org)

288 points by Twirrim on Oct 17, 2024 | 348 comments

284.

Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots

287 points by damir on Oct 23, 2024 | 201 comments

285.

Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients (scitechdaily.com)

286 points by amichail on Oct 17, 2024 | 143 comments

286.

Automating processes with software is hard (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)

286 points by rbanffy on Oct 7, 2024 | 107 comments

287.

555 Timer Circuits (555-timer-circuits.com)

286 points by okl on Oct 17, 2024 | 105 comments

288.

Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object (simonwillison.net)

285 points by ajhit406 on Oct 13, 2024 | 103 comments

289.

Don't squander public trust on bullshit (livboeree.substack.com)

284 points by NavinF on Oct 4, 2024 | 150 comments

290.

Prisma Postgres – Runs on bare metal and unikernels (prisma.io)

284 points by gniting on Oct 29, 2024 | 150 comments

291.

Post World War II Food (nps.gov)

283 points by paulpauper on Oct 24, 2024 | 300 comments

292.

Detecting when LLMs are uncertain (thariq.io)

283 points by trq_ on Oct 25, 2024 | 167 comments

293.

Game Programming in Prolog (thingspool.net)

283 points by febin on Oct 10, 2024 | 62 comments

294.

Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster (newyorker.com)

282 points by fortran77 on Oct 7, 2024 | 298 comments

295.

Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs (arxiv.org)

282 points by hnhn34 on Oct 11, 2024 | 266 comments

296.

Apple's AirPods Pro hearing health features (theverge.com)

282 points by elsewhen on Oct 22, 2024 | 211 comments

297.

Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011) (dfns.dyalog.com)

282 points by secwang on Oct 6, 2024 | 195 comments

298.

Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?

282 points by jainvivek on Oct 16, 2024 | 192 comments

299.

Zamba2-7B (zyphra.com)

282 points by dataminer on Oct 14, 2024 | 71 comments

300.

Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan (entrepreneur.com)

281 points by christhecaribou on Oct 3, 2024 | 290 comments