HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019) (twobithistory.org)

168 points by meribold on Jun 26, 2024 | 112 comments

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Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager (brioche.dev)

168 points by kylewlacy on Jun 3, 2024 | 87 comments

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Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas (phys.org)

168 points by wglb on Jun 25, 2024 | 76 comments

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Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know (nicole.express)

168 points by GavinAnderegg on Jun 28, 2024 | 66 comments

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Records of Pompeii's survivors have been found (theconversation.com)

168 points by Stratoscope on Jun 8, 2024 | 57 comments

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Klára Dán von Neumann (en.wikipedia.org)

168 points by pietroppeter on Jun 28, 2024 | 52 comments

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Twonkie: A USB-PD sniffer/injector/sink based on Google's Twinkie open hardware (github.com)

168 points by transpute on Jun 25, 2024 | 26 comments

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FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing (ajc.com)

168 points by heavyset_go on Jun 5, 2024 | 4 comments

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'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors (theguardian.com)

167 points by zeristor on Jun 15, 2024 | 322 comments

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New algorithm discovers language just by watching videos (csail.mit.edu)

167 points by geox on Jun 13, 2024 | 79 comments

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Martha Gellhorn, the only woman to report on the D-Day landings from the ground (smithsonianmag.com)

167 points by Brajeshwar on Jun 6, 2024 | 62 comments

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Law enforcement is spying on Americans' mail, records show (washingtonpost.com)

167 points by pseudolus on Jun 25, 2024 | 55 comments

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Oldest largest German Minecraft server shut down and open sourced everything (github.com)

167 points by espresso39 on Jun 3, 2024 | 42 comments

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Show HN: Local voice assistant using Ollama, transformers and Coqui TTS toolkit (github.com)

167 points by mezba on Jun 20, 2024 | 26 comments

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Misconceptions about loops in C (dl.acm.org)

166 points by matt_d on Jun 27, 2024 | 182 comments

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Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?

166 points by dgellow on Jun 12, 2024 | 157 comments

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Own Constant Folder in C/C++ (neilhenning.dev)

166 points by todsacerdoti on Jun 22, 2024 | 113 comments

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The physics of airplane flight (10maurycy10.github.io)

165 points by luu on Jun 30, 2024 | 169 comments

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Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi (nytimes.com)

165 points by Hooke on Jun 11, 2024 | 116 comments

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The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive (sciencealert.com)

165 points by georgecmu on Jun 23, 2024 | 58 comments

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HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering (haithemturki.com)

165 points by tzmlab on Jun 22, 2024 | 49 comments

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Newswire: A large-scale structured database of a century of historical news (arxiv.org)

165 points by h2odragon on Jun 30, 2024 | 39 comments

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20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU (img.ly)

165 points by buss_jan on Jun 20, 2024 | 31 comments

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Stealing everything you've ever typed on your Windows Recall PC is now possible (simonwillison.net)

165 points by serhack_ on Jun 1, 2024 | 22 comments

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US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban (opb.org)

164 points by geox on Jun 23, 2024 | 141 comments

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40 out of 60 German climate greening endavours fraudulent (fr.de)

164 points by Log_out_ on Jun 14, 2024 | 120 comments

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HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade (h30434.www3.hp.com)

164 points by jackpot433 on Jun 6, 2024 | 117 comments

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Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary (arxiv.org)

164 points by zdw on Jun 22, 2024 | 105 comments

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Launch HN: Overwatch (YC S22): OSINT platform for cyber and fraud risk

164 points by Bisen on Jun 12, 2024 | 89 comments

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Researchers make a supercapacitor from water, cement, and carbon black (bbc.com)

164 points by ranit on Jun 11, 2024 | 81 comments