HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Moon (ciechanow.ski)

3128 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 17, 2024 | 250 comments

2.

Ghostty 1.0 (ghostty.org)

2316 points by matrixhelix on Dec 26, 2024 | 679 comments

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IMG_0001 (walzr.com)

1859 points by walz on Dec 4, 2024 | 289 comments

4.

Cognitive load is what matters (minds.md)

1752 points by zdw on Dec 22, 2024 | 717 comments

5.

OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB (arcprize.org)

1722 points by maurycy on Dec 20, 2024 | 1753 comments

6.

Merry Christmas Everyone

1503 points by joshagilend on Dec 25, 2024 | 383 comments

7.

Every V4 UUID (everyuuid.com)

1429 points by LorenDB on Dec 6, 2024 | 355 comments

8.

Willow, Our Quantum Chip (blog.google)

1410 points by robflaherty on Dec 9, 2024 | 529 comments

9.

Advent of Code 2024 (adventofcode.com)

1387 points by thinkingemote on Dec 1, 2024 | 553 comments

10.

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 (lapcatsoftware.com)

1327 points by latexr on Dec 28, 2024 | 981 comments

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Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History (oldmapsonline.org)

1301 points by agilek on Dec 12, 2024 | 181 comments

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My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback (armaansahni.com)

1250 points by veesahni on Dec 3, 2024 | 481 comments

13.

Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model (deepmind.google)

1245 points by meetpateltech on Dec 4, 2024 | 409 comments

14.

Happy New Year 2025

1223 points by martynvandijke on Dec 31, 2024 | 258 comments

15.

Itch.io Taken Down by Funko (bsky.app)

1197 points by spiralganglion on Dec 9, 2024 | 463 comments

16.

From where I left (antirez.com)

1188 points by tilt on Dec 10, 2024 | 455 comments

17.

Jimmy Carter has died (washingtonpost.com)

1183 points by gkolli on Dec 29, 2024 | 824 comments

18.

Sora is here (openai.com)

1151 points by toomuchtodo on Dec 9, 2024 | 985 comments

19.

macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time (github.com)

1138 points by ajdude on Dec 24, 2024 | 254 comments

20.

Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history (lichess.org)

1118 points by alexmolas on Dec 12, 2024 | 463 comments

21.

Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died

1092 points by AaronFriel on Dec 30, 2024 | 98 comments

22.

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment (mercurynews.com)

1038 points by mmorearty on Dec 13, 2024 | 428 comments

23.

Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era (blog.google)

1014 points by meetpateltech on Dec 11, 2024 | 490 comments

24.

School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study (york.ac.uk)

1013 points by jonatron on Dec 14, 2024 | 677 comments

25.

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 (simonwillison.net)

984 points by simonw on Dec 31, 2024 | 582 comments

26.

Why we use our own hardware (fastmail.com)

932 points by nmjenkins on Dec 22, 2024 | 528 comments

27.

The era of open voice assistants (home-assistant.io)

930 points by _Microft on Dec 20, 2024 | 276 comments

28.

Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger (intel.com)

912 points by tybulewicz on Dec 2, 2024 | 740 comments

29.

Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines (markwhen.com)

912 points by koch on Dec 1, 2024 | 98 comments

30.

Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (fishshell.com)

904 points by jdxcode on Dec 28, 2024 | 195 comments