HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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FTC takes action against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for selling location data (ftc.gov)

193 points by gnabgib on Dec 3, 2024 | 157 comments

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China completes green belt around Taklamakan Desert (sand-boarding.com)

193 points by uprootdev on Dec 8, 2024 | 148 comments

543.

Using Libc for GPUs (libc.llvm.org)

193 points by hochmartinez on Dec 11, 2024 | 86 comments

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Librebooting the ThinkPad T480 (ezntek.com)

193 points by axiologist on Dec 8, 2024 | 80 comments

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OpenAUTH: Universal, standards-based auth provider (openauth.js.org)

193 points by jacobrussell on Dec 16, 2024 | 72 comments

546.

Documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64 (github.com)

193 points by thunderbong on Dec 16, 2024 | 54 comments

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The average American spent 2.5 months on their phone in 2024 (pcmag.com)

191 points by elorant on Dec 29, 2024 | 202 comments

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Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker (blog.polybdenum.com)

191 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 22, 2024 | 184 comments

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Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study (news.mit.edu)

191 points by topato on Dec 8, 2024 | 161 comments

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Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously (digitalcameraworld.com)

191 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 26, 2024 | 100 comments

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We all took the DVD boom era for granted (filmstories.co.uk)

190 points by thunderbong on Dec 7, 2024 | 368 comments

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Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime (more-magic.net)

190 points by sjamaan on Dec 17, 2024 | 70 comments

553.

Common misconceptions about compilers (sbaziotis.com)

190 points by baziotis on Dec 10, 2024 | 64 comments

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CodeMic: A new way to talk about code (codemic.io)

189 points by seansh on Dec 22, 2024 | 58 comments

555.

I Reversed a Drone and Landed It with My PC (hardbreak.wiki)

189 points by hw-f3nter on Dec 28, 2024 | 46 comments

556.

DSPy – Programming–not prompting–LMs (dspy.ai)

189 points by ulrischa on Dec 6, 2024 | 45 comments

557.

Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components (github.com)

189 points by sokmastr on Dec 14, 2024 | 41 comments

558.

Why making friends as an adult is harder (theestablished.com)

188 points by yamrzou on Dec 24, 2024 | 234 comments

559.

Uv, a fast Python package and project manager (docs.astral.sh)

188 points by Loic on Dec 14, 2024 | 146 comments

560.

Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth (ft.com)

188 points by pella on Dec 30, 2024 | 146 comments

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Developing inside a virtual machine (blog.disintegrator.dev)

188 points by disintegrator on Dec 29, 2024 | 143 comments

562.

Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS (obdev.at)

188 points by stefankuehnel on Dec 30, 2024 | 110 comments

563.

New Google Sheet on half of 13.6" MacBook Air screen is fully covered by popups (imgur.com)

188 points by kaonwarb on Dec 23, 2024 | 88 comments

564.

Programming the C64 with Visual Studio Code (retrogamecoders.com)

188 points by rbanffy on Dec 1, 2024 | 37 comments

565.

Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch (adam.math.hhu.de)

188 points by mildog8 on Dec 17, 2024 | 32 comments

566.

Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale (solmaz.io)

187 points by hosolmaz on Dec 16, 2024 | 249 comments

567.

Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo (waymo.com)

187 points by EvgeniyZh on Dec 17, 2024 | 120 comments

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Slow deployment causes meetings (2015) (tidyfirst.substack.com)

187 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 22, 2024 | 93 comments

569.

AI model for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware (surrey.ac.uk)

187 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 10, 2024 | 53 comments

570.

Escaping Google's manual reputation penalty and resuming business as usual (recleudo.com)

187 points by fueloil on Dec 21, 2024 | 38 comments