HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1591.

Meta is the 'single largest market for paedophiles', says New Mexico AG (theguardian.com)

81 points by sandebert on Feb 1, 2024 | 145 comments

1592.

US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in 'climate time bomb' (theguardian.com)

81 points by ndsipa_pomu on Feb 29, 2024 | 115 comments

1593.

First satellite imagery of the Feb-13, 2024 landslide at Çöpler Mine in Turkey (eos.org)

81 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 19, 2024 | 77 comments

1594.

Sam Altman Wants $7T (astralcodexten.com)

81 points by runamuck on Feb 14, 2024 | 74 comments

1595.

Renesas Buys Altium (renesas.com)

81 points by AdamH12113 on Feb 15, 2024 | 65 comments

1596.

Ask HN: 36 months of unemployment and depression. How to go back?

81 points by hansor on Feb 16, 2024 | 63 comments

1597.

A rural ski slope caught up in an international scam (newyorker.com)

81 points by PaulHoule on Feb 7, 2024 | 60 comments

1598.

Evolution: Fast or slow? Lizards help resolve a paradox (quantamagazine.org)

81 points by rbanffy on Feb 12, 2024 | 47 comments

1599.

Use of decimal point is 1.5 centuries older than historians thought (phys.org)

81 points by andsoitis on Feb 21, 2024 | 36 comments

1600.

Acoustic cameras can see sound (2023) [video] (youtube.com)

81 points by melenaboija on Feb 12, 2024 | 33 comments

1601.

Code for the Byte Pair Encoding algorithm, commonly used in LLM tokenization (github.com)

81 points by magoghm on Feb 17, 2024 | 31 comments

1602.

The Complete Bus Logic of the Intel 8088 (martypc.blogspot.com)

81 points by ingve on Feb 10, 2024 | 8 comments

1603.

TrueType Fonts for OpenTTD (openttd.org)

81 points by davikr on Feb 17, 2024 | 5 comments

1604.

Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS (blogsystem5.substack.com)

81 points by ingve on Feb 7, 2024 | 3 comments

1605.

Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors (arstechnica.com)

80 points by hn_acker on Feb 13, 2024 | 118 comments

1606.

Pivotal Mental States (2020) (journals.sagepub.com)

80 points by luu on Feb 1, 2024 | 54 comments

1607.

Speed of Rust vs. C (kornel.ski)

80 points by behnamoh on Feb 23, 2024 | 49 comments

1608.

Apple ramped up autonomous vehicle testing last year, filings show (wired.com)

80 points by Amorymeltzer on Feb 5, 2024 | 44 comments

1609.

Show HN: AI Generated (Not-Real) User Avatar Images for Development Needs (avatars.tzador.com)

80 points by timz on Feb 17, 2024 | 43 comments

1610.

The Thundering Herd Problem (encore.dev)

80 points by ingve on Feb 1, 2024 | 37 comments

1611.

Unison File Synchronizer (github.com)

80 points by smartmic on Feb 7, 2024 | 26 comments

1612.

U.S. workers are employed but unhappy and many need multiple jobs (financialpost.com)

80 points by paulpauper on Feb 24, 2024 | 22 comments

1613.

You Can Call the Super Bowl the "Super Bowl" (eff.org)

80 points by nozzlegear on Feb 12, 2024 | 17 comments

1614.

Mathematical Foundations of Joy (hypercubed.github.io)

80 points by tosh on Feb 22, 2024 | 8 comments

1615.

Interpreting neural networks through the polytope lens (2022) (lesswrong.com)

80 points by sva_ on Feb 4, 2024 | 7 comments

1616.

Induced demand is not a useful concept (bensouthwood.co.uk)

79 points by telotortium on Feb 13, 2024 | 212 comments

1617.

On whether we're living in a simulation (scottaaronson.blog)

79 points by FergusArgyll on Feb 8, 2024 | 201 comments

1618.

Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS (swiftmail.io)