HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

541.

US spies are buying Americans’ data – Congress has a new chance to stop it (wired.com)

238 points by arkadiyt on Jul 9, 2023 | 95 comments

542.

LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups (fly.io)

238 points by nalgeon on Jul 5, 2023 | 90 comments

543.

Python: Overlooked core functionalities (erikvandeven.medium.com)

237 points by erikvdven on Jul 24, 2023 | 181 comments

544.

Unauthenticated RCE on a RIGOL oscilloscope (tortel.li)

237 points by jandeboevrie on Jul 16, 2023 | 136 comments

545.

Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?

237 points by toombowoombo on Jul 21, 2023 | 106 comments

546.

Elixir is still safe (paraxial.io)

237 points by manusachi on Jul 24, 2023 | 34 comments

547.

Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them (avestura.dev)

236 points by synergy20 on Jul 3, 2023 | 284 comments

548.

Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement (facebookuserprivacysettlement.com)

236 points by beatthatflight on Jul 29, 2023 | 161 comments

549.

Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law (techdirt.com)

236 points by rntn on Jul 27, 2023 | 136 comments

550.

No CSS Club (nocss.club)

235 points by Fred34 on Jul 16, 2023 | 271 comments

551.

TODO apps are meant for robots (frantic.im)

235 points by imadj on Jul 16, 2023 | 204 comments

552.

Expo – Open-source platform for making universal apps for Android, iOS, and web (github.com)

235 points by andsoitis on Jul 26, 2023 | 171 comments

553.

Tesla directors agree to return $735M following claims they were overpaid (engadget.com)

235 points by thunderbong on Jul 18, 2023 | 109 comments

554.

Show HN: My Pen Plotting Journey (adamfuhrer.com)

235 points by adamfuhrer on Jul 24, 2023 | 89 comments

555.

TabDB: Using browser tabs as a database like only a maniac would (github.com)

235 points by janandonly on Jul 1, 2023 | 58 comments

556.

Mark Watson's Lisp books (github.com)

235 points by KRAKRISMOTT on Jul 24, 2023 | 49 comments

557.

Noctis, the 'No Man's Sky' Forerunner Whose Creator Retreated from the World (timeextension.com)

235 points by myth_drannon on Jul 6, 2023 | 41 comments

558.

A petabyte of health insurance prices per month (blog.turquoise.health)

234 points by ageitgey on Jul 11, 2023 | 257 comments

559.

Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem (newsletter.mollywhite.net)

234 points by ecliptik on Jul 30, 2023 | 167 comments

560.

Mandatory enforcement of indirect branch targets (undeadly.org)

234 points by peter_hansteen on Jul 14, 2023 | 130 comments

561.

A Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery (thehustle.co)

234 points by Anon84 on Jul 23, 2023 | 71 comments

562.

Scaling Transformers to 1B Tokens (arxiv.org)

234 points by mottiden on Jul 6, 2023 | 68 comments

563.

Wikipedia-grounded chatbot “outperforms all baselines” on factual accuracy (en.wikipedia.org)

233 points by akolbe on Jul 17, 2023 | 177 comments

564.

New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages (mpg.de)

233 points by Archelaos on Jul 30, 2023 | 148 comments

565.

Why is the volume of a cone one third of the volume of a cylinder? (2010) (math.stackexchange.com)

233 points by eigenvalue on Jul 1, 2023 | 112 comments

566.

Matrix multiplication using only addition (arxiv.org)

233 points by daniel-cussen on Jul 8, 2023 | 108 comments

567.

Harvard ethics professor allegedly fabricated multiple studies (thecollegefix.com)