HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

271.

Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)

333 points by janandonly on Apr 26, 2023 | 245 comments

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Housing should be affordable except for when I sell my house for $1M (mcsweeneys.net)

332 points by baron816 on Apr 22, 2023 | 333 comments

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Emerging Rust GUI libraries in a WASM world (monadical.com)

332 points by fork-bomber on Apr 27, 2023 | 217 comments

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How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery (billmei.net)

331 points by Kortaggio on Apr 28, 2023 | 262 comments

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Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available (aws.amazon.com)

331 points by 20wenty on Apr 13, 2023 | 150 comments

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Satellite takes image of another satellite (twitter.com)

331 points by kristianpaul on Apr 19, 2023 | 87 comments

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No Source Code == No Patent (albertcory50.substack.com)

329 points by AlbertCory on Apr 17, 2023 | 181 comments

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Show HN: ADHD-friendly Pomodoro web app (brainpls.work)

329 points by grzracz on Apr 6, 2023 | 129 comments

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Monster Energy Goes After Indie Dev for Using the Word 'Monster' (thegamer.com)

328 points by type0 on Apr 4, 2023 | 176 comments

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Perspective: Open Source WebAssembly-Powered BI (perspective.finos.org)

328 points by texodus on Apr 5, 2023 | 71 comments

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SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy (interactive.satellitetoday.com)

327 points by Teever on Apr 1, 2023 | 263 comments

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The end of a myth: Distributed transactions can scale (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

327 points by luu on Apr 11, 2023 | 88 comments

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UK Threatens End-to-End Encryption (schneier.com)

326 points by mikece on Apr 24, 2023 | 217 comments

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EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest heist in game history (pcgamer.com)

326 points by galleywest200 on Apr 12, 2023 | 178 comments

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‘America does so much more to subsidise affluence than alleviate poverty’ (ft.com)

325 points by hhs on Apr 2, 2023 | 344 comments

286.

Temporal quality degradation in AI models (nannyml.com)

325 points by santiviquez on Apr 14, 2023 | 343 comments

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Changes to Tailscale Pricing and Plans (tailscale.com)

325 points by bvogelzang on Apr 18, 2023 | 114 comments

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Pandas 2.0 (github.com)

325 points by calpaterson on Apr 3, 2023 | 111 comments

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Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars (hubblesite.org)

324 points by mcguire on Apr 7, 2023 | 182 comments

290.

The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat (opencoreventures.com)

322 points by sherlockxu on Apr 15, 2023 | 213 comments

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Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive (twitter.com)

322 points by ValentineC on Apr 4, 2023 | 178 comments

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Circuit.js – Electronic circuit simulator on the web (lushprojects.com)

320 points by ggeorgovassilis on Apr 4, 2023 | 61 comments

293.

Bell Labs gave up its roof to patch the Statue of Liberty (nickvsnetworking.com)

319 points by jmurphyau on Apr 4, 2023 | 112 comments

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Safari releases are development hell (construct.net)

318 points by AshleysBrain on Apr 3, 2023 | 274 comments

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French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes (theguardian.com)

318 points by biomene on Apr 18, 2023 | 236 comments

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An open source AI tool to animate children's drawings (github.com)

318 points by snork_alt on Apr 14, 2023 | 14 comments

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For the first time, renewable energy generation beat out coal in the US (popsci.com)

316 points by doener on Apr 2, 2023 | 304 comments

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Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei (theregister.com)

316 points by pinewurst on Apr 20, 2023 | 267 comments

299.

End-of-Life Dreams (commonwealmagazine.org)

316 points by nopg on Apr 13, 2023 | 185 comments

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Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients (today.ucsd.edu)

315 points by consumer451 on Apr 29, 2023 | 423 comments