HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

4861.

A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely (nature.com)

272 points by sohkamyung on Oct 18, 2023 | 140 comments

4862.

The Analog Thing: an open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer (the-analog-thing.org)

272 points by uticus on Jun 2, 2023 | 130 comments

4863.

Easy HTTPS for your private networks (getlocalcert.net)

272 points by 8organicbits on Jul 10, 2023 | 120 comments

4864.

How to check if two SQL tables are the same (github.com)

272 points by remywang on Jul 27, 2023 | 120 comments

4865.

Bare-metal Rust in Android (security.googleblog.com)

272 points by iamd3vil on Oct 9, 2023 | 117 comments

4866.

Lightweight SQLite Editor for Windows (github.com)

272 points by bbkane on Apr 18, 2023 | 110 comments

4867.

How FoundationDB works and why it works (2021) (blog.the-pans.com)

272 points by tim_sw on Sep 18, 2023 | 105 comments

4868.

Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic (arxiv.org)

272 points by sohkamyung on Dec 6, 2023 | 100 comments

4869.

Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo (dougengelbart.org)

272 points by gjvc on Dec 9, 2023 | 99 comments

4870.

Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go (notes.eatonphil.com)

272 points by simjue on May 25, 2023 | 79 comments

4871.

Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (1996) (archive.org)

272 points by stefankuehnel on Sep 2, 2023 | 59 comments

4872.

Jupyter AI (jupyter-ai.readthedocs.io)

272 points by jonbaer on Aug 6, 2023 | 36 comments

4873.

Building a legged robot in 80 days (107-systems.org)

272 points by jelliclesfarm on Feb 6, 2023 | 35 comments

4874.

Introduction to Data-Centric AI (dcai.csail.mit.edu)

272 points by jonbaer on Feb 23, 2023 | 29 comments

4875.

Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage (news.cornell.edu)

271 points by PaulHoule on Jan 10, 2023 | 498 comments

4876.

‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit (fruitnet.com)

271 points by jelliclesfarm on Sep 20, 2023 | 497 comments

4877.

The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere (jonathanhaidt.substack.com)

271 points by paulpauper on Mar 29, 2023 | 478 comments

4878.

Japan has changed in important and visible ways (noahpinion.substack.com)

271 points by zdw on Jan 24, 2023 | 442 comments

4879.

The Pentagon’s $52k trash can (responsiblestatecraft.org)

271 points by todd23 on Jun 23, 2023 | 367 comments

4880.

Chicago sold rights to 36k parking meters for $1.2B that generate $200M per year (chicago.suntimes.com)

271 points by Zaheer on Mar 1, 2023 | 273 comments

4881.

Bing Chat now has ads (twitter.com)

271 points by georgehill on Mar 29, 2023 | 237 comments

4882.

Don't be clever (stitcher.io)

271 points by brentroose on Aug 3, 2023 | 224 comments

4883.

Typing fast is about latency, not throughput (two-wrongs.com)

271 points by chriskrycho on Nov 10, 2023 | 220 comments

4884.

Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google (abc.net.au)

271 points by defrost on Oct 23, 2023 | 214 comments

4885.

Texas man sent to death row over junk science denied US Supreme Court appeal (theguardian.com)

271 points by rossant on Oct 3, 2023 | 203 comments

4886.

Microsoft to support Windows 11 on M1 and M2 Macs through Parallels partnership (theverge.com)

271 points by ta_u on Feb 16, 2023 | 188 comments

4887.

Thread-per-core (without.boats)

271 points by ingve on Oct 6, 2023 | 188 comments

4888.

Orion Browser by Kagi (kagi.com)

271 points by cottonseed on Nov 28, 2023 | 188 comments

4889.

Rust vs. Haskell (serokell.io)

271 points by aroccoli on Feb 14, 2023 | 184 comments

4890.

Windows 10 warns me to use a "Microsoft-verified" app (support.mozilla.org)

271 points by mrich on Oct 16, 2023 | 184 comments