HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2221.

Carl Weathers has died (bbc.co.uk)

374 points by zeristor on Feb 2, 2024 | 66 comments

2222.

300k airplanes in five years (construction-physics.com)

373 points by juliangamble on May 23, 2024 | 556 comments

2223.

MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style (news.mit.edu)

373 points by keepamovin on Dec 17, 2024 | 422 comments

2224.

Notes on Tajikistan (mattlakeman.org)

373 points by petesivak on Jun 20, 2024 | 380 comments

2225.

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983) (gist.github.com)

373 points by Eric_WVGG on Oct 16, 2024 | 272 comments

2226.

The sun's magnetic field is about to flip (space.com)

373 points by Brajeshwar on Jun 14, 2024 | 170 comments

2227.

Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip (spectrum.ieee.org)

373 points by Brajeshwar on Jan 19, 2024 | 121 comments

2228.

Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (somethingsimilar.com)

373 points by doesntmeananyth on Sep 2, 2024 | 55 comments

2229.

Show HN: jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq (github.com)

373 points by aqny on Mar 19, 2024 | 41 comments

2230.

Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells (ualberta.ca)

372 points by Eumenes on Nov 20, 2024 | 445 comments

2231.

Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

372 points by break_the_bank on Feb 5, 2024 | 334 comments

2232.

Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line? (geospatial.netlify.app)

372 points by gh_hammour on Jun 6, 2024 | 251 comments

2233.

Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers (bitbytebit.substack.com)

372 points by recroad on Jan 21, 2024 | 170 comments

2234.

Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux (github.com)

372 points by gballan on Jul 22, 2024 | 169 comments

2235.

So you wanna de-bog yourself (experimental-history.com)

372 points by world2vec on Apr 5, 2024 | 85 comments

2236.

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO (danluu.com)

371 points by greggyb on Oct 28, 2024 | 685 comments

2237.

OpenAI drops ban on military tools to partner with The Pentagon (semafor.com)

371 points by mfiguiere on Jan 16, 2024 | 472 comments

2238.

Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal (bc.ctvnews.ca)

371 points by brrrrrd on Feb 15, 2024 | 420 comments

2239.

Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse (arxiv.org)

371 points by benocodes on Oct 30, 2024 | 250 comments

2240.

I've stopped using box plots (2021) (nightingaledvs.com)

371 points by colinprince on Jun 23, 2024 | 247 comments

2241.

Introducing S2 (s2.dev)

371 points by brancz on Dec 21, 2024 | 194 comments

2242.

Weather forecasts have become more accurate (ourworldindata.org)

371 points by sohkamyung on Mar 12, 2024 | 188 comments

2243.

Terminal colours are tricky (jvns.ca)

371 points by chmaynard on Oct 3, 2024 | 142 comments

2244.

Never Missing the Train Again (lilymara.xyz)

371 points by thimabi on Oct 23, 2024 | 136 comments

2245.

AI generated security reports about curl (daniel.haxx.se)

371 points by skeptrune on Jan 2, 2024 | 121 comments

2246.

Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage (nytimes.com)

371 points by panarky on Jul 19, 2024 | 121 comments

2247.

Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US (businessinsider.com)

370 points by NN88 on Jan 3, 2024 | 2127 comments

2248.

Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers (krebsonsecurity.com)

370 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 10, 2024 | 385 comments

2249.

OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition (reuters.com)

370 points by marban on Oct 29, 2024 | 301 comments

2250.

Pretty.c (github.com)

370 points by synergy20 on Oct 24, 2024 | 221 comments