HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

871.

My brand new digitizing workflow using a 25 year old film scanner (blog.vladovince.com)

123 points by williamsmj on Dec 3, 2024 | 60 comments

872.

Jack Elam and the Fly in 'Once Upon a Time in the West' (pov.imv.au.dk)

123 points by chimpanzee on Dec 30, 2024 | 28 comments

873.

A simple way to explore data through a Tableau-like UI directly in your data app (github.com)

123 points by loa_observer on Dec 30, 2024 | 13 comments

874.

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment (old.reddit.com)

123 points by hobo_in_library on Dec 13, 2024 | 10 comments

875.

The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023) (arxiv.org)

122 points by surprisetalk on Dec 1, 2024 | 107 comments

876.

Singlefile: A web extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML file (github.com)

122 points by throw0101a on Dec 21, 2024 | 46 comments

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New physics sim can compress training times from decades into hours (arstechnica.com)

122 points by elsewhen on Dec 20, 2024 | 34 comments

878.

Bad keming: Kerning failures, plus other typographical and font mishaps (badkeming.com)

122 points by gaws on Dec 26, 2024 | 24 comments

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Hacking physics from the back of a napkin (2020) (hapax.github.io)

122 points by g0xA52A2A on Dec 14, 2024 | 14 comments

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BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt (2021) (ariadne.space)

121 points by thunderbong on Dec 29, 2024 | 107 comments

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Neuroplasticity in F16 fighter jet pilots (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

121 points by bookofjoe on Dec 10, 2024 | 46 comments

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The history of twisted-pair Ethernet [video] (youtube.com)

121 points by thecybernerd on Dec 26, 2024 | 23 comments

883.

Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition (itvision.altervista.org)

120 points by itvision on Dec 30, 2024 | 452 comments

884.

Bicameral, Not Homoiconic (parentheticallyspeaking.org)

120 points by todsacerdoti on Dec 2, 2024 | 65 comments

885.

Show HN: BunkerWeb – The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF) (github.com)

120 points by bnkty on Dec 6, 2024 | 30 comments

886.

Computer Architecture, Fifth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (2011) (dl.acm.org)

120 points by nioj on Dec 8, 2024 | 26 comments

887.

California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite (ktla.com)

119 points by LinuxBender on Dec 3, 2024 | 187 comments

888.

Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway (educatedguesswork.org)

119 points by ekr____ on Dec 28, 2024 | 128 comments

889.

Garbage collected smart pointers in Rust via concurrent cycle collection (maplant.com)

119 points by maplant on Dec 13, 2024 | 63 comments

890.

Maximum likelihood estimation and loss functions (rish-01.github.io)

119 points by snprajwal on Dec 15, 2024 | 31 comments

891.

Rust’s Incremental Compiler Architecture (lwn.net)

119 points by signa11 on Dec 13, 2024 | 22 comments

892.

‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’ (theguardian.com)

118 points by bookofjoe on Dec 3, 2024 | 460 comments

893.

Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe (smithsonianmag.com)

118 points by Thevet on Dec 16, 2024 | 115 comments

894.

Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders (techcrunch.com)

118 points by PaulHoule on Dec 26, 2024 | 58 comments

895.

DOS APPEND (os2museum.com)

118 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 20, 2024 | 56 comments

896.

Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video] (youtube.com)

118 points by ohjeez on Dec 19, 2024 | 54 comments

897.

Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War (crookedtimber.org)

118 points by akkartik on Dec 14, 2024 | 43 comments

898.

Show HN: A 5th order motion planner with PH spline blending, written in Ada (600f3559.prunt-docs.pages.dev)

118 points by LiamPowell on Dec 4, 2024 | 32 comments

899.

Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit (newatlas.com)

117 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 7, 2024 | 107 comments

900.

Apple M5 could ditch unified memory architecture for split CPU and GPU designs (notebookcheck.net)

117 points by akyuu on Dec 30, 2024 | 79 comments