HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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U.S. math scores drop on major international test (chalkbeat.org)

348 points by akantler on Dec 10, 2024 | 693 comments

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Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far (9to5mac.com)

348 points by mgh2 on Dec 16, 2024 | 394 comments

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A Replacement for BERT (huggingface.co)

348 points by cubie on Dec 19, 2024 | 75 comments

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Mistakes as a new manager (terriblesoftware.org)

347 points by Sharpie4679 on Dec 6, 2024 | 148 comments

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Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz championship after dress code disagreement (chess.com)

345 points by throwup238 on Dec 28, 2024 | 437 comments

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Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript (github.com)

345 points by freetonik on Dec 18, 2024 | 65 comments

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A Minecraft server written in COBOL (github.com)

342 points by notamy on Dec 26, 2024 | 121 comments

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Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) (andrewkchan.dev)

342 points by homarp on Dec 14, 2024 | 53 comments

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Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf] (drive.google.com)

340 points by sgbeal on Dec 2, 2024 | 288 comments

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EmacsConf 2024 Notes (sachachua.com)

340 points by JNRowe on Dec 28, 2024 | 154 comments

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Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated (igorstechnoclub.com)

338 points by Igor_Wiwi on Dec 25, 2024 | 150 comments

222.

Write Your Own Virtual Machine (2022) (jmeiners.com)

338 points by sebg on Dec 26, 2024 | 97 comments

223.

Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor (github.com)

336 points by peterkos on Dec 27, 2024 | 35 comments

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They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard (kevinboone.me)

335 points by ingve on Dec 4, 2024 | 217 comments

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I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig (jonot.me)

334 points by tehnub on Dec 30, 2024 | 141 comments

226.

Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too? (quantamagazine.org)

334 points by rbanffy on Dec 2, 2024 | 130 comments

227.

Show HN: Banan-OS, an Unix-like operating system written from scratch (github.com)

333 points by Bananymous on Dec 5, 2024 | 63 comments

228.

A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal (spectrum.ieee.org)

332 points by sohkamyung on Dec 13, 2024 | 90 comments

229.

Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003) (historylink.org)

330 points by psc on Dec 18, 2024 | 305 comments

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Darktable 5.0.0 (darktable.org)

330 points by morsch on Dec 31, 2024 | 122 comments

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<dialog>: The Dialog Element (developer.mozilla.org)

329 points by htunnicliff on Dec 6, 2024 | 153 comments

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MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown (github.com)

329 points by Handy-Man on Dec 13, 2024 | 80 comments

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Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

327 points by christophilus on Dec 25, 2024 | 337 comments

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OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe (openttd.org)

327 points by doener on Dec 4, 2024 | 110 comments

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US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19 (reuters.com)

326 points by thunderbong on Dec 16, 2024 | 733 comments

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Doctors Without Borders declares the war in Gaza as genocide (doctorswithoutborders.org)

326 points by lr0 on Dec 20, 2024 | 266 comments

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Preferring throwaway code over design docs (softwaredoug.com)

326 points by softwaredoug on Dec 14, 2024 | 172 comments

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Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond (ft.com)

326 points by pseudolus on Dec 19, 2024 | 150 comments

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Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video] (media.ccc.de)

326 points by doener on Dec 28, 2024 | 129 comments

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OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’ (daringfireball.net)

325 points by ajuhasz on Dec 29, 2024 | 313 comments