HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

Universal optimality of Dijkstra via beyond-worst-case heaps (arxiv.org)

203 points by foweltschmerz on Oct 25, 2024 | 47 comments

512.

The Japanese word ikigai refers to a passion that gives joy to life (2022) (japan.go.jp)

202 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 22, 2024 | 116 comments

513.

Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil (wpri.com)

202 points by geox on Oct 17, 2024 | 78 comments

514.

Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove (nature.com)

201 points by andsoitis on Oct 15, 2024 | 469 comments

515.

The Stallman Report (stallman-report.org)

201 points by pkilgore on Oct 14, 2024 | 184 comments

516.

A Local-First Case Study (jakelazaroff.com)

201 points by paulgb on Oct 1, 2024 | 82 comments

517.

Do U.S. ports need more automation? (construction-physics.com)

200 points by gok on Oct 8, 2024 | 314 comments

518.

Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard (spectrum.ieee.org)

200 points by thebeardisred on Oct 6, 2024 | 101 comments

519.

Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic (404media.co)

200 points by orangeteacups on Oct 17, 2024 | 79 comments

520.

Is the attack helicopter dead? (hushkit.net)

199 points by speckx on Oct 7, 2024 | 634 comments

521.

UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius (bbc.co.uk)

199 points by andystanton on Oct 3, 2024 | 282 comments

522.

We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem (old.reddit.com)

199 points by neelc on Oct 6, 2024 | 223 comments

523.

The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia (smithsonianmag.com)

198 points by Brajeshwar on Oct 1, 2024 | 203 comments

524.

A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022) (phys.org)

198 points by amichail on Oct 15, 2024 | 162 comments

525.

TSMC cuts off client after discovering chips sent to Huawei (bloomberg.com)

198 points by teleforce on Oct 24, 2024 | 121 comments

526.

Wasmer 5.0 (wasmer.io)

198 points by syrusakbary on Oct 29, 2024 | 82 comments

527.

The electrostatic world of insects (wired.com)

198 points by noleary on Oct 29, 2024 | 49 comments

528.

Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store (frozenfractal.com)

197 points by grodriguez100 on Oct 3, 2024 | 171 comments

529.

Don't let dicts spoil your code (roman.pt)

197 points by juniperplant on Oct 8, 2024 | 115 comments

530.

Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf] (www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de)

197 points by matt_d on Oct 12, 2024 | 97 comments

531.

S3 as a Git remote and LFS server (github.com)

197 points by kbumsik on Oct 19, 2024 | 52 comments

532.

Warm Handoffs (luckymike.dev)

197 points by mooreds on Oct 7, 2024 | 51 comments

533.

Generative AI Scripting (microsoft.github.io)

197 points by baublet on Oct 30, 2024 | 47 comments

534.

Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status (lwn.net)

196 points by koutsie on Oct 22, 2024 | 264 comments

535.

Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

196 points by timokoesters on Oct 10, 2024 | 143 comments

536.

Understanding how bureaucracy develops (dhruvmethi.substack.com)

196 points by dhruvmethi on Oct 17, 2024 | 97 comments

537.

The 1/8th Sleep (near.blog)

195 points by asats on Oct 13, 2024 | 54 comments

538.

Writes and Write-Nots (paulgraham.com)

194 points by baxtr on Oct 27, 2024 | 153 comments

539.

OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging (github.com)

194 points by gjvc on Oct 25, 2024 | 64 comments

540.

DeepSeek v2.5 – open-source LLM comparable to GPT-4, but 95% less expensive (deepseek.com)

193 points by jchook on Oct 30, 2024 | 75 comments