HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4141.

Why is it so hard to build an airport? (construction-physics.com)

262 points by gmays on Mar 22, 2024 | 555 comments

4142.

Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell (corecursive.com)

262 points by todsacerdoti on Jul 4, 2024 | 250 comments

4143.

Aristotle – How to live a good life (ralphammer.com)

262 points by thread_id on Aug 16, 2024 | 167 comments

4144.

2023 Letter (danwang.co)

262 points by admp on Jan 23, 2024 | 154 comments

4145.

Man scammed after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was real (cbc.ca)

262 points by deviantintegral on May 31, 2024 | 144 comments

4146.

The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app (htmx.org)

262 points by gherkinnn on Nov 17, 2024 | 143 comments

4147.

Window Maker: X11 window manager with the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP UI (windowmaker.org)

262 points by lnyan on Aug 28, 2024 | 135 comments

4148.

Pql, a pipelined query language that compiles to SQL (pql.dev)

262 points by ejcx on Feb 28, 2024 | 131 comments

4149.

Car manufacturers break promise about sharing location data with police (wyden.senate.gov)

262 points by skilled on May 1, 2024 | 121 comments

4150.

Tao Te Ching translated by Ursula Le Guin (1997) (github.com)

262 points by martythemaniak on Jul 5, 2024 | 118 comments

4151.

One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107 (economist.com)

262 points by helsinkiandrew on Dec 8, 2024 | 113 comments

4152.

Eyechat (neal.fun)

262 points by seatac76 on Aug 5, 2024 | 100 comments

4153.

Lindroid (twitter.com)

262 points by LorenDB on Jun 17, 2024 | 92 comments

4154.

See a Fish? Ring the Bell (visdeurbel.nl)

262 points by cyanbane on Mar 23, 2024 | 79 comments

4155.

Perf Is Not Enough (motherduck.com)

262 points by shubhamjain on Mar 10, 2024 | 77 comments

4156.

Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation (medium.com)

262 points by davikr on Dec 10, 2024 | 69 comments

4157.

Pgroll – Zero-downtime, reversible, schema changes for PostgreSQL (new website) (pgroll.com)

262 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 11, 2024 | 52 comments

4158.

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40% (phoronix.com)

262 points by mfiguiere on Jan 9, 2024 | 44 comments

4159.

Show HN: I made a drag and drop CSS grid generator (cssgridgenerator.io)

262 points by Kristjan_Retter on Jul 13, 2024 | 44 comments

4160.

ScreenAI: A visual LLM for UI and visually-situated language understanding (research.google)

262 points by gfortaine on Apr 9, 2024 | 40 comments

4161.

The state of AI for hand-drawn animation inbetweening (yosefk.com)

262 points by luu on Apr 17, 2024 | 38 comments

4162.

Please stop the coding challenges (blackentropy.bearblog.dev)

261 points by CrazyEmi on Nov 15, 2024 | 478 comments

4163.

Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer (techcrunch.com)

261 points by gniting on Oct 4, 2024 | 376 comments

4164.

23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached (techcrunch.com)

261 points by skadamat on Jan 3, 2024 | 368 comments

4165.

The Forest Service Is Losing 2,400 Jobs–Including Most of Its Trail Workers (backpacker.com)

261 points by iancmceachern on Oct 23, 2024 | 297 comments

4166.

Why Not Comments (buttondown.com)

261 points by ghewgill on Sep 10, 2024 | 277 comments

4167.

Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943) (fraser.stlouisfed.org)

261 points by throw0101d on May 21, 2024 | 267 comments

4168.

Why does FM sound better than AM? (johndcook.com)

261 points by zdw on Oct 13, 2024 | 267 comments

4169.

Figma’s Journey to TypeScript (figma.com)

261 points by soheilpro on May 3, 2024 | 248 comments

4170.

Majority of web apps could just run on a single server (old.reddit.com)

261 points by thunderbong on Mar 24, 2024 | 243 comments