HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ fuels debate (nature.com)

320 points by mfiguiere on Aug 1, 2023 | 274 comments

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I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one (claytonwramsey.github.io)

320 points by claytonwramsey on Aug 14, 2023 | 144 comments

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Cellebrite asks cops to keep its technology secret (techcrunch.com)

319 points by pg_1234 on Aug 19, 2023 | 215 comments

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I'm OK, the bull is dead (2004) (computerworld.com)

319 points by g4zj on Aug 11, 2023 | 175 comments

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Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago (twitter.com)

318 points by mikkohypponen on Aug 18, 2023 | 408 comments

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The antitrust trial against Google is starting in September (thebignewsletter.com)

318 points by gcheong on Aug 6, 2023 | 339 comments

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Why do old books smell so good? (scienceswitch.com)

318 points by conse_lad on Aug 19, 2023 | 222 comments

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A note to young folks: download the things you love (birchtree.me)

318 points by ingve on Aug 29, 2023 | 102 comments

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Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design (spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu)

317 points by filiph on Aug 9, 2023 | 156 comments

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Welcome to Datasette Cloud (datasette.cloud)

317 points by swyx on Aug 20, 2023 | 68 comments

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The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity (okdoomer.io)

316 points by PaulHoule on Aug 13, 2023 | 359 comments

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Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact (arstechnica.com)

316 points by donutshop on Aug 27, 2023 | 220 comments

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tRPC – Build and consume typesafe APIs without schemas or code generation (trpc.io)

316 points by olalonde on Aug 12, 2023 | 217 comments

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1.56M dehumidifiers recalled due to fire and burn hazards (theverge.com)

316 points by DemiGuru on Aug 17, 2023 | 165 comments

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IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face (newsroom.ibm.com)

315 points by drkommy on Aug 3, 2023 | 82 comments

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Intel's GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including 'How You Use Your Computer' (extremetech.com)

314 points by mikro2nd on Aug 9, 2023 | 181 comments

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Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts (forums.spacebattles.com)

313 points by cal85 on Aug 7, 2023 | 289 comments

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Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly (moonbitlang.com)

313 points by dlib on Aug 18, 2023 | 152 comments

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Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation (fly.io)

312 points by behnamoh on Aug 4, 2023 | 71 comments

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Color-Diffusion: using diffusion models to colorize black and white images (github.com)

311 points by dvrp on Aug 3, 2023 | 131 comments

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The EU's war on behavioral advertising (thisisunpacked.substack.com)

309 points by curiousbird on Aug 25, 2023 | 405 comments

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Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering (arm.com)

308 points by lultimouomo on Aug 22, 2023 | 268 comments

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5 years ago Valve released Proton (gamingonlinux.com)

308 points by chungus on Aug 21, 2023 | 256 comments

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USENET rises again? (theregister.com)

308 points by LinuxBender on Aug 31, 2023 | 232 comments

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In every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person was Black (businessinsider.com)

308 points by thunderbong on Aug 6, 2023 | 217 comments

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Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 months of commercial use (korban.net)

308 points by clessg on Aug 13, 2023 | 130 comments

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Fine-Tuning Llama-2: A Comprehensive Case Study for Tailoring Custom Models (anyscale.com)

308 points by robertnishihara on Aug 11, 2023 | 59 comments

328.

Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 lines of Python (vmartin.fr)

308 points by sebg on Aug 25, 2023 | 45 comments

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Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect (twitter.com)

307 points by dtx1 on Aug 1, 2023 | 173 comments

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The Alexander Piano (alexanderpiano.nz)

307 points by KolmogorovComp on Aug 7, 2023 | 102 comments