HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) (javascript.tm)

678 points by pavelai 20 hours ago | 342 comments

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Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? (reason.com)

554 points by delichon 11 hours ago | 798 comments

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PGlite – Embeddable Postgres (pglite.dev)

535 points by dsego 18 hours ago | 105 comments

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How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs (arxiv.org)

524 points by 50kIters 20 hours ago | 510 comments

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I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)

441 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 211 comments

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Unreal Tournament 2004 is back (old.reddit.com)

427 points by keithoffer 19 hours ago | 188 comments

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Transparent leadership beats servant leadership (entropicthoughts.com)

394 points by ibobev 15 hours ago | 184 comments

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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas (arstechnica.com)

382 points by OptionOfT 13 hours ago | 292 comments

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RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung (pcworld.com)

368 points by sethops1 15 hours ago | 355 comments

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Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s (uncloud.run)

368 points by rgun 23 hours ago | 156 comments

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The RAM shortage comes for us all (jeffgeerling.com)

334 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 357 comments

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Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig (sinclairtarget.com)

273 points by yurivish 7 hours ago | 300 comments

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Django 6 (docs.djangoproject.com)

270 points by wilhelmklopp 8 hours ago | 126 comments

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AV1: A Modern, Open Codec (netflixtechblog.com)

259 points by CharlesW 5 hours ago | 116 comments

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Multivox: Volumetric Display (github.com)

248 points by jk_tech 12 hours ago | 31 comments

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A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat (bbc.com)

229 points by toss1 8 hours ago | 189 comments

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Autism should not be treated as a single condition (economist.com)

225 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 273 comments

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We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months (aitradearena.com)

210 points by cheeseblubber 6 hours ago | 176 comments

19.

Programming peaked (functional.computer)

199 points by Antibabelic 19 hours ago | 201 comments

20.

30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" (web.archive.org)

197 points by donohoe 17 hours ago | 93 comments

21.

Tunnl.gg (tunnl.gg)

189 points by klipitkas 18 hours ago | 92 comments

22.

Fighting the age-gated internet (wired.com)

187 points by geox 15 hours ago | 179 comments

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Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years (topspeed.com)

159 points by teleforce 17 hours ago | 141 comments

24.

The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X (fsfe.org)

148 points by latexr 13 hours ago | 157 comments

25.

Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame (github.com)

145 points by thunderbong 13 hours ago | 64 comments

26.

State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)

145 points by anjneymidha 6 hours ago | 54 comments

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Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later (onlyrecipeapp.com)