HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5161.

How China turns members of its diaspora into spies (economist.com)

228 points by cwwc on Dec 29, 2024 | 220 comments

5162.

Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020) (vice.com)

228 points by bentcorner on May 17, 2024 | 208 comments

5163.

Financial systems take a holiday (bitsaboutmoney.com)

228 points by nfriedly on Feb 29, 2024 | 200 comments

5164.

Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts (reason.com)

228 points by perihelions on Apr 25, 2024 | 197 comments

5165.

Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit (quickwit.io)

228 points by samber on Jul 11, 2024 | 195 comments

5166.

New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search (blog.google)

228 points by xnx on Mar 5, 2024 | 186 comments

5167.

Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood (theconversation.com)

228 points by pseudolus on Apr 24, 2024 | 172 comments

5168.

Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop (sharedrop.io)

228 points by linkdd on Jan 21, 2024 | 154 comments

5169.

Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms (science.org)

228 points by isaacfrond on Nov 11, 2024 | 151 comments

5170.

Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy (sfist.com)

228 points by miles on Dec 27, 2024 | 151 comments

5171.

FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs (replicate.com)

228 points by fagerhult on Oct 3, 2024 | 142 comments

5172.

Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain (sciencenews.org)

228 points by wahnfrieden on Mar 20, 2024 | 141 comments

5173.

Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish (ibis-project.org)

228 points by nojito on Aug 29, 2024 | 138 comments

5174.

Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content (alfy.blog)

228 points by damir on Oct 25, 2024 | 136 comments

5175.

Facebook incorrectly reports personal blog to DigitalOcean for phishing (social.lol)

228 points by cdme on Jan 5, 2024 | 119 comments

5176.

The Curse of Monkey Island (filfre.net)

228 points by cybersoyuz on Apr 19, 2024 | 113 comments

5177.

Libyear (libyear.com)

228 points by Crier1002 on May 9, 2024 | 111 comments

5178.

Armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective (arstechnica.com)

228 points by thepuppet33r on May 30, 2024 | 105 comments

5179.

Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language (xorvoid.com)

228 points by xorvoid on Jun 10, 2024 | 104 comments

5180.

On finishing projects (alexreichert.com)

228 points by reichertjalex on Aug 19, 2024 | 100 comments

5181.

Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines (theguardian.com)

228 points by thunderbong on Jul 4, 2024 | 94 comments

5182.

SimSig: Railway Signalling Simulations (simsig.co.uk)

228 points by untilted on Jul 10, 2024 | 94 comments

5183.

MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone (mikrophone.net)

228 points by voxadam on Oct 3, 2024 | 86 comments

5184.

Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go (pkg.go.dev)

228 points by nateb2022 on Nov 28, 2024 | 82 comments

5185.

I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months (shadesofgreaves.substack.com)

228 points by vitabenes on Feb 14, 2024 | 70 comments

5186.

World Server Throwing Championship (cloudfest.com)

228 points by T-A on Mar 3, 2024 | 68 comments

5187.

Making a Postgres query 1k times faster (mattermost.com)

228 points by d0mine on May 15, 2024 | 60 comments

5188.

Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR (ai.meta.com)

228 points by TheAceOfHearts on Jun 18, 2024 | 54 comments

5189.

Show HN: Super Snowflake Maker (supersnowflakemaker.com)

228 points by shalanah on Dec 23, 2024 | 48 comments

5190.

Web Design Museum (webdesignmuseum.org)

228 points by helloplanets on Aug 29, 2024 | 41 comments