HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

571.

New dog, old trick: DaMAgeCard attack targets memory directly via SD card reader (swarm.ptsecurity.com)

187 points by thebeardisred on Dec 9, 2024 | 21 comments

572.

Amazon Aurora DSQL (aws.amazon.com)

186 points by aws_hero on Dec 3, 2024 | 135 comments

573.

Fire risk assessment of battery home storage compared to general house fires (papers.ssrn.com)

185 points by gnabgib on Dec 9, 2024 | 205 comments

574.

The Need to Grind Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction (justinmath.com)

185 points by JustinSkycak on Dec 8, 2024 | 71 comments

575.

Running Durable Workflows in Postgres Using DBOS (supabase.com)

185 points by kiwicopple on Dec 10, 2024 | 67 comments

576.

Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract (gitingest.com)

185 points by cyclotruc on Dec 5, 2024 | 51 comments

577.

The new science of controlling lucid dreams (scientificamerican.com)

184 points by cainxinth on Dec 27, 2024 | 113 comments

578.

ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019) (vice.com)

184 points by Bluestein on Dec 29, 2024 | 91 comments

579.

Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models (bellard.org)

184 points by signa11 on Dec 30, 2024 | 68 comments

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Researchers use AI to turn sound recordings into street images (news.utexas.edu)

184 points by giuliomagnifico on Dec 1, 2024 | 49 comments

581.

The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy" (gilkalai.wordpress.com)

183 points by nsoonhui on Dec 11, 2024 | 118 comments

582.

Using Guile for Emacs (lwn.net)

183 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 16, 2024 | 71 comments

583.

RWKV Language Model (rwkv.com)

183 points by simonpure on Dec 30, 2024 | 52 comments

584.

Includeable minimal operating system for C++ (includeos.org)

183 points by we-do-not-sow on Dec 17, 2024 | 46 comments

585.

Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network' (gizmodo.com)

182 points by pseudolus on Dec 5, 2024 | 466 comments

586.

Kagi Teams (blog.kagi.com)

182 points by icar on Dec 6, 2024 | 164 comments

587.

Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and Eleven Other Memory Safety Approaches (verdagon.dev)

182 points by PotatoPancakes on Dec 16, 2024 | 139 comments

588.

Task-specific LLM evals that do and don't work (eugeneyan.com)

182 points by ZeljkoS on Dec 9, 2024 | 46 comments

589.

Sub-pixel distance transform (2023) (acko.net)

182 points by ChadNauseam on Dec 26, 2024 | 25 comments

590.

Proposed amendment to legal presumption about the reliability of computers (postofficescandal.uk)

181 points by chrisjj on Dec 2, 2024 | 222 comments

591.

Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) (ntietz.com)

181 points by Liriel on Dec 11, 2024 | 116 comments

592.

The risk of cancer fades past the age of 80 (sciencealert.com)

181 points by gpi on Dec 22, 2024 | 48 comments

593.

Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client (github.com)

181 points by OuterVale on Dec 19, 2024 | 37 comments

594.

BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective [video] (media.ccc.de)

180 points by doener on Dec 29, 2024 | 196 comments

595.

You need 4 colors (iamsajid.com)

180 points by s4i on Dec 11, 2024 | 131 comments

596.

Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer (andyatkinson.com)

180 points by plaur782 on Dec 11, 2024 | 120 comments

597.

Alzheimer's study shows ketone bodies help clear misfolded proteins (genengnews.com)

180 points by msie on Dec 11, 2024 | 107 comments

598.

McKinsey unit will pay $123M to settle claims it bribed South African officials (cnbc.com)

179 points by donsupreme on Dec 5, 2024 | 122 comments

599.

Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes (npr.org)

179 points by geox on Dec 29, 2024 | 122 comments

600.

A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles (waymo.com)

178 points by devangs on Dec 20, 2024 | 477 comments