HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

571.

Are sockets the wave of the future? (1990) (groups.google.com)

221 points by Lammy on May 7, 2023 | 90 comments

572.

Yurt Calculator (simplydifferently.org)

221 points by raptorraver on May 1, 2023 | 88 comments

573.

Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023 (dolphin-emu.org)

221 points by thepbone on May 21, 2023 | 53 comments

574.

Laser scanning microscope from DVD pickup heads (2020) (gaudi.ch)

221 points by uramondi on May 1, 2023 | 31 comments

575.

The last days of a 350-year-old family farm (smithsonianmag.com)

220 points by ilamont on May 9, 2023 | 208 comments

576.

Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io (databricks.com)

220 points by embirico on May 30, 2023 | 117 comments

577.

NASA's Laser Link Boasts Record-Breaking 200 Gbps Speed (spectrum.ieee.org)

220 points by mfiguiere on May 30, 2023 | 113 comments

578.

Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?

219 points by debo_ on May 11, 2023 | 347 comments

579.

Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp (leefang.com)

219 points by walterbell on May 28, 2023 | 87 comments

580.

My first superoptimizer (austinhenley.com)

219 points by azhenley on May 29, 2023 | 56 comments

581.

C++17’s useful features for embedded systems (interrupt.memfault.com)

218 points by manchoz on May 29, 2023 | 191 comments

582.

Westinghouse AP300 Small Module Reactor (westinghousenuclear.com)

218 points by wanderingmind on May 4, 2023 | 143 comments

583.

Music Company Asks Google to Delist 'YouTube Downloader' Wikipedia Article (torrentfreak.com)

218 points by picture on May 28, 2023 | 66 comments

584.

Searches for VPN Soar in Utah Amidst Pornhub Blockage (culturalcurrents.institute)

217 points by freedomben on May 3, 2023 | 289 comments

585.

Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams (9to5google.com)

217 points by thesuperbigfrog on May 17, 2023 | 248 comments

586.

Noise is all around us (thewalrus.ca)

217 points by akeck on May 21, 2023 | 163 comments

587.

Software bugs that cause real-world harm (pointersgonewild.com)

217 points by thepbone on May 29, 2023 | 130 comments

588.

Iconic Torrent Site Rarbg Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop (torrentfreak.com)

217 points by notmine1337 on May 31, 2023 | 2 comments

589.

Why is inflation so sticky? It could be corporate profits (wsj.com)

216 points by gnicholas on May 2, 2023 | 313 comments

590.

The world’s oldest ultramarathon runner is racing against death (thewalrus.ca)

216 points by gmays on May 9, 2023 | 241 comments

591.

Ignore Microsoft’s whines about the Activision takeover. The CMA did its job (theguardian.com)

216 points by mrkramer on May 1, 2023 | 202 comments

592.

Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients (utu.fi)

216 points by _xerces_ on May 2, 2023 | 134 comments

593.

Language Learning with Netflix (languagelearningwithnetflix.com)

216 points by impoppy on May 6, 2023 | 103 comments

594.

MGL: Common Lisp machine learning library (github.com)

216 points by oumua_don17 on May 13, 2023 | 6 comments

595.

TV series about startup failures (1984.design)

215 points by boraoztunc on May 7, 2023 | 156 comments

596.

Getting Stuff Done by Not Being Mean to Yourself (2010) (openheartproject.com)

215 points by herbertl on May 19, 2023 | 74 comments

597.

Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011) (math.stackexchange.com)

214 points by layer8 on May 2, 2023 | 374 comments

598.

Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (2016) (idlewords.com)

214 points by 082349872349872 on May 27, 2023 | 363 comments

599.

Hugging Face Releases Agents (huggingface.co)

214 points by mach1ne on May 10, 2023 | 125 comments

600.

Off-grid solar brings light, time and income to remotest villages (apnews.com)

214 points by zdw on May 14, 2023 | 106 comments