HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

901.

The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise (jgeekstudies.org)

117 points by zdw on Dec 2, 2024 | 75 comments

902.

Computing Inside an AI (willwhitney.com)

117 points by pongogogo on Dec 14, 2024 | 68 comments

903.

The Rock VX Gas Canister Build (2022) (therpf.com)

117 points by 882542F3884314B on Dec 2, 2024 | 56 comments

904.

Show HN: I built an embeddable Unicode library with MISRA C conformance (railgunlabs.com)

117 points by hgs3 on Dec 15, 2024 | 48 comments

905.

Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013) (blog.invisiblethings.org)

117 points by transpute on Dec 12, 2024 | 45 comments

906.

Show HN: Open-sourced (road) traffic counting application (github.com)

117 points by asfarley on Dec 2, 2024 | 24 comments

907.

Tokenisation Is NP-Complete (arxiv.org)

117 points by belter on Dec 22, 2024 | 24 comments

908.

0x01 – Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations (wetw0rk.github.io)

117 points by neilwillgettoit on Dec 8, 2024 | 13 comments

909.

Nordstrom family to take company private (bloomberg.com)

116 points by ivewonyoung on Dec 23, 2024 | 99 comments

910.

Using Drop for safety in Rust (v5.chriskrycho.com)

116 points by thunderbong on Dec 16, 2024 | 27 comments

911.

From Unemployment to Lisp: Running GPT-2 on a Teen's Deep Learning Compiler (github.com)

116 points by AymanB on Dec 10, 2024 | 6 comments

912.

The world of tomorrow (worksinprogress.co)

115 points by diodorus on Dec 8, 2024 | 133 comments

913.

A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects (spectrum.ieee.org)

115 points by TaurenHunter on Dec 13, 2024 | 108 comments

914.

The world of Dante's Divine Comedy (lithub.com)

115 points by lermontov on Dec 2, 2024 | 70 comments

915.

Make a "Magic Eye" image using Excel (divisbyzero.com)

115 points by noiv on Dec 4, 2024 | 56 comments

916.

A middle schooler found a new compound in a piece of goose poop (phys.org)

115 points by dxs on Dec 3, 2024 | 45 comments

917.

A new home for Python-build-standalone (astral.sh)

115 points by burntsushi on Dec 3, 2024 | 34 comments

918.

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) (yosefk.com)

115 points by homebrewer on Dec 28, 2024 | 28 comments

919.

Demystifying Common Microcontroller Debug Protocols [video] (media.ccc.de)

115 points by doener on Dec 27, 2024 | 2 comments

920.

The Power Mac 4400 (512pixels.net)

114 points by speckx on Dec 16, 2024 | 150 comments

921.

When should we require that firmware be free? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

114 points by AndrewDucker on Dec 17, 2024 | 141 comments

922.

When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it (utcc.utoronto.ca)

114 points by zdw on Dec 22, 2024 | 57 comments

923.

Bit Vectors and my first steps into assembly (blog.smidt.dev)

114 points by thunderbong on Dec 22, 2024 | 43 comments

924.

Turing Machines (samwho.dev)

114 points by jakelazaroff on Dec 20, 2024 | 35 comments

925.

The Homa Network Protocol (lwn.net)

114 points by harporoeder on Dec 30, 2024 | 16 comments

926.

Collatz’s Ant (gbragafibra.github.io)

114 points by Fibra on Dec 21, 2024 | 13 comments

927.

After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly (arstechnica.com)

113 points by fenced_load on Dec 28, 2024 | 143 comments

928.

A Knife Forged in Fire (chicagomag.com)

113 points by hentrep on Dec 19, 2024 | 117 comments

929.

Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US (acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

113 points by ndsipa_pomu on Dec 4, 2024 | 111 comments

930.

Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs' (businessinsider.com)

112 points by belter on Dec 16, 2024 | 203 comments