HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Automating the search for artificial life with foundation models (sakana.ai)

170 points by hardmaru on Dec 24, 2024 | 36 comments

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WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States (agr.wa.gov)

169 points by rguiscard on Dec 23, 2024 | 132 comments

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Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary (cnn.com)

169 points by bikenaga on Dec 26, 2024 | 58 comments

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How concurrency works: A visual guide (wyounas.github.io)

169 points by simplegeek on Dec 18, 2024 | 48 comments

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Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?

169 points by toomuchtodo on Dec 1, 2024 | 41 comments

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Droste’s Lair (vezwork.github.io)

169 points by spiralganglion on Dec 16, 2024 | 7 comments

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In Defense of Y'All (texasmonthly.com)

168 points by scour on Dec 17, 2024 | 362 comments

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Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars? (milescole.dev)

168 points by RobinL on Dec 14, 2024 | 114 comments

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Canvas (openai.com)

168 points by t55 on Dec 10, 2024 | 94 comments

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Storing Times for Human Events (simonwillison.net)

168 points by kiyanwang on Dec 9, 2024 | 80 comments

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Insurers rely on doctors whose judgments have been criticized by courts (propublica.org)

167 points by ceejayoz on Dec 30, 2024 | 246 comments

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We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you) (datocms.com)

167 points by steffoz on Dec 3, 2024 | 158 comments

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Markov Keyboard: keyboard layout that changes by Markov frequency (2019) (github.com)

167 points by dr_kiszonka on Dec 19, 2024 | 105 comments

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PCIe trouble with 4TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD for >1 power cycle on MSI PRO X670-P (forum.level1techs.com)

167 points by transpute on Dec 28, 2024 | 105 comments

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Training myself to run farther with Strava's API and an IoT dog feeder of M&Ms (mayer.cool)

167 points by danielwmayer on Dec 2, 2024 | 70 comments

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Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust (daniel.haxx.se)

167 points by hnarn on Dec 21, 2024 | 65 comments

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Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust (github.com)

167 points by ellenhp on Dec 14, 2024 | 24 comments

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Classical sorting algorithms as a model of morphogenesis (2023) (arxiv.org)

166 points by filoeleven on Dec 18, 2024 | 79 comments

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Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link (raspberrypi.com)

166 points by Venn1 on Dec 7, 2024 | 44 comments

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Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software (souzatharsis.com)

166 points by sebg on Dec 12, 2024 | 29 comments

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In-Depth Ruby Concurrency: Navigating the Ruby Concurrency Landscape (jpcamara.com)

166 points by chmaynard on Dec 15, 2024 | 17 comments

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Exploring LoRA – Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (medium.com)

166 points by aquastorm on Dec 23, 2024 | 15 comments

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JSON parsers that can accept comments (douglascrockfordisnotyourdad.technomancy.us)

165 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 8, 2024 | 193 comments

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So you want to write Java in Neovim (ptrtojoel.dev)

165 points by ralphsebastian on Dec 28, 2024 | 159 comments

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The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun (arstechnica.com)

165 points by pseudolus on Dec 20, 2024 | 145 comments

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Launch HN: Innate (YC F24) – Home robots as easy to program as AI agents

165 points by apeytavin on Dec 18, 2024 | 76 comments

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In praise of the hundred page idea (tracydurnell.com)

165 points by surprisetalk on Dec 19, 2024 | 62 comments

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Breaking NATO Radio Encryption [video] (media.ccc.de)

165 points by doener on Dec 29, 2024 | 42 comments

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VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor (danielmangum.com)

165 points by hasheddan on Dec 24, 2024 | 40 comments

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Execution units are often pipelined (blog.xoria.org)

164 points by ingve on Dec 27, 2024 | 95 comments