HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

961.

A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

550 points by whatever3 on Feb 3, 2024 | 193 comments

962.

With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits (quantamagazine.org)

550 points by LegionMammal978 on Jul 2, 2024 | 137 comments

963.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

549 points by whoishiring on May 1, 2024 | 736 comments

964.

Hackintosh is almost dead (aplus.rs)

549 points by ingve on Mar 16, 2024 | 527 comments

965.

alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv (alphaxiv.org)

549 points by sahebjot on Sep 8, 2024 | 178 comments

966.

Is my plane a 737 MAX? (ismyplanea737max.com)

548 points by jacksoncheek on Jan 9, 2024 | 553 comments

967.

Mourning Google (tbray.org)

548 points by cdme on Jan 19, 2024 | 471 comments

968.

Notepad++ is 21 years old (learnhub.top)

548 points by thunderbong on Nov 1, 2024 | 247 comments

969.

Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges (fabiensanglard.net)

548 points by zdw on Apr 22, 2024 | 153 comments

970.

Where Have All the Websites Gone? (fromjason.xyz)

547 points by benrutter on Jan 9, 2024 | 398 comments

971.

Parable of the Sofa (tbray.org)

547 points by zdw on Jun 2, 2024 | 344 comments

972.

Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction (nobelprize.org)

547 points by mitchbob on Oct 9, 2024 | 317 comments

973.

After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code (dylanhuang.com)

547 points by gniting on Dec 17, 2024 | 267 comments

974.

Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database (github.com)

547 points by ignoramous on Jan 14, 2024 | 233 comments

975.

Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU (github.com)

547 points by abi on May 3, 2024 | 139 comments

976.

iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail (twitter.com)

546 points by wannacboatmovie on Jan 8, 2024 | 448 comments

977.

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014) (zachholman.com)

546 points by throwup238 on Jan 25, 2024 | 396 comments

978.

The Static Site Paradox (kristoff.it)

546 points by alraj on Oct 8, 2024 | 366 comments

979.

Signs that it's time to leave a company (adrianco.medium.com)

546 points by bezeee on Jan 10, 2024 | 339 comments

980.

Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth (unfashionable.blog)

546 points by SvenSchnieders on Sep 30, 2024 | 248 comments

981.

Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores (gizmodo.com)

545 points by walterbell on Apr 2, 2024 | 747 comments

982.

What's New in Ruby on Rails 8 (blog.appsignal.com)

545 points by amalinovic on Oct 7, 2024 | 281 comments

983.

Handling cookies is a minefield (grayduck.mn)

545 points by todsacerdoti on Nov 21, 2024 | 252 comments

984.

AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry (deepmind.google)

545 points by FlawedReformer on Jan 17, 2024 | 170 comments

985.

NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9 (npr.org)

544 points by everybodyknows on Mar 6, 2024 | 320 comments

986.

A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago (mbuffett.com)

544 points by marcusbuffett on Jun 29, 2024 | 318 comments

987.

Facebook's Little Red Book (map.cv)

544 points by heshiebee on Dec 2, 2024 | 283 comments

988.

How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech (12challenges.substack.com)

544 points by louisbarclay on Jan 30, 2024 | 202 comments

989.

Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation (mitchellh.com)

544 points by tosh on Oct 1, 2024 | 192 comments

990.

Does current AI represent a dead end? (bcs.org)

543 points by jnord on Dec 27, 2024 | 1048 comments