HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold (bbc.com)

164 points by borissk on Dec 4, 2023 | 95 comments

812.

Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI (vgmusic.com)

164 points by BramLovesYams on Dec 20, 2023 | 50 comments

813.

What are farm animals thinking? (science.org)

163 points by mooreds on Dec 26, 2023 | 205 comments

814.

HN website is/was down. I'm curious why? (hn.hund.io)

163 points by karmakaze on Dec 12, 2023 | 180 comments

815.

Oldest Fortresses in the World Discovered (phys.org)

163 points by wglb on Dec 12, 2023 | 86 comments

816.

Wasmer JavaScript SDK (wasmer.io)

163 points by the_duke on Dec 21, 2023 | 41 comments

817.

WWII code breaker Mary Ratcliffe has died (dailymail.co.uk)

163 points by smcin on Dec 15, 2023 | 35 comments

818.

Largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up (newatlas.com)

162 points by clouddrover on Dec 6, 2023 | 134 comments

819.

Postgres Language Server: Implementing the Parser (supabase.com)

162 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 8, 2023 | 46 comments

820.

MLX: NumPy like framework for Apple Silicon by Apple (ml-explore.github.io)

162 points by dagmx on Dec 6, 2023 | 16 comments

821.

The Hyperloop was always a scam (disconnect.blog)

161 points by zzzeek on Dec 22, 2023 | 192 comments

822.

VanJS – A no-JSX framework based on vanilla JavaScript (vanjs.org)

161 points by ms7892 on Dec 20, 2023 | 168 comments

823.

Groqchat (chat.groq.com)

161 points by izzymiller on Dec 22, 2023 | 119 comments

824.

CUDA vs. ROCm: A case study (shihab-shahriar.github.io)

161 points by shihab on Dec 19, 2023 | 78 comments

825.

Unprivileged process injection techniques in Linux (joev.dev)

161 points by joe_v on Dec 29, 2023 | 47 comments

826.

Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (2019) (blog.scottlogic.com)

161 points by davikr on Dec 3, 2023 | 32 comments

827.

Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it (techcrunch.com)

160 points by gmays on Dec 21, 2023 | 191 comments

828.

Mercedes gets approval for turquoise automated driving lights (jalopnik.com)

160 points by Stratoscope on Dec 20, 2023 | 185 comments

829.

FOSDEM 2024 Schedule (fosdem.org)

160 points by Gys on Dec 19, 2023 | 76 comments

830.

Using Zig to Unit Test a C Application (mtlynch.io)

160 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 18, 2023 | 52 comments

831.

Transaction Isolation in Postgres (thenile.dev)

160 points by jerrinot on Dec 18, 2023 | 25 comments

832.

Tacit Knowledge Is Dangerous (er4hn.info)

159 points by Wingy on Dec 12, 2023 | 140 comments

833.

Electrocaloric material makes refrigerant-free solid-state fridge scalable (spectrum.ieee.org)

159 points by westurner on Dec 2, 2023 | 45 comments

834.

HyperRogue, a open-source non-Euclidean roguelike: new weapons (zenorogue.blogspot.com)

159 points by zenorogue on Dec 27, 2023 | 26 comments

835.

Reforming Unix (github.com)

158 points by Ericson2314 on Dec 25, 2023 | 94 comments

836.

Cog: Use Python in your source files to generate pieces of code (2021) (nedbatchelder.com)

158 points by goranmoomin on Dec 12, 2023 | 83 comments

837.

I Can't Sleep (blog.paulbiggar.com)

158 points by pbiggar on Dec 14, 2023 | 77 comments

838.

Deadweight Loss as a Service (unoriginal.blog)

158 points by codon on Dec 9, 2023 | 74 comments

839.

Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web (bikobatanari.art)

158 points by PaulHoule on Dec 5, 2023 | 57 comments

840.

Sweden Solar System (en.wikipedia.org)

158 points by titaniumtown on Dec 31, 2023 | 46 comments