HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1471.

Playing video games boosts IQ in children (sciencealert.com)

58 points by loandbehold on Dec 16, 2024 | 50 comments

1472.

Forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases (thedial.world)

58 points by gcoleman on Dec 2, 2024 | 35 comments

1473.

Dropbox saved millions building a custom load balancer (newsletter.betterstack.com)

58 points by cnctvfrc on Dec 11, 2024 | 31 comments

1474.

Feds: Tether has become a money laundering tool for Mexican drug trafficker (404media.co)

58 points by SirLJ on Dec 2, 2024 | 27 comments

1475.

TSMC founder says Intel has neither a strategy nor a CEO (tomshardware.com)

58 points by rbanffy on Dec 11, 2024 | 23 comments

1476.

Now Boarding: The Story of Airport (airport.revolvertype.com)

58 points by epaga on Dec 7, 2024 | 22 comments

1477.

Ask HN: Please recommend university open courses for software design?

58 points by ryuzaka on Dec 9, 2024 | 19 comments

1478.

Images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87 (newsroom.ucla.edu)

58 points by gmays on Dec 16, 2024 | 18 comments

1479.

Vulkan Video Now Enabled by Default for Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware on Linux (phoronix.com)

58 points by doener on Dec 2, 2024 | 15 comments

1480.

Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for drug use (usatoday.com)

58 points by darth_avocado on Dec 12, 2024 | 0 comments

1481.

HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025 (tomshardware.com)

57 points by thunderbong on Dec 14, 2024 | 128 comments

1482.

Go should sometimes be a no-go (brainbaking.com)

57 points by Tomte on Dec 14, 2024 | 76 comments

1483.

Earth's subsurface may hold up to 5.6 × 10⁶ million metric tons of hydrogen (phys.org)

57 points by wglb on Dec 23, 2024 | 71 comments

1484.

The electric shock behind Europe's stuttering EV future (news.sky.com)

57 points by xbmcuser on Dec 7, 2024 | 62 comments

1485.

Squirrels hunting and eating meat (gizmodo.com)

57 points by ulrischa on Dec 18, 2024 | 52 comments

1486.

Matt Mullenweg Asks What Drama to Create in 2025, Community Reacts (wptavern.com)

57 points by bookofjoe on Dec 27, 2024 | 42 comments

1487.

Automated reasoning to remove LLM hallucinations (aws.amazon.com)

57 points by rustastra on Dec 4, 2024 | 38 comments

1488.

The Tragedy of Stafford Beer (2023) (kevinmunger.substack.com)

57 points by anigbrowl on Dec 4, 2024 | 36 comments

1489.

U2's Larry Mullen Jr: my dyscalculia makes 'counting like climbing Everest' (thetimes.com)

57 points by bookofjoe on Dec 14, 2024 | 36 comments

1490.

Pee.ie – Public Toilets Near Me Ireland (pee.ie)

57 points by austinallegro on Dec 31, 2024 | 35 comments

1491.

Russia's Dead Drop Drug Revolution (globalinitiative.net)

57 points by nkko on Dec 4, 2024 | 32 comments

1492.

Intel's Fall from Grace (cacm.acm.org)

57 points by subvertify on Dec 11, 2024 | 32 comments

1493.

I Built a Figma Plugin That Generates Custom SVG Illustrations with AI (figma.com)

57 points by gigantz on Dec 19, 2024 | 20 comments

1494.

Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox (macrumors.com)

57 points by frizlab on Dec 4, 2024 | 14 comments

1495.

Nucleotide Transformer: building robust foundation models for human genomics (nature.com)

57 points by bookofjoe on Dec 1, 2024 | 9 comments

1496.

Show HN: Vicinity – Fast, Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Back Ends (github.com)

57 points by Pringled on Dec 1, 2024 | 8 comments

1497.

The lobbist who hijacked ~3% of revenue from US doctors (propublica.org)

57 points by IG_Semmelweiss on Dec 6, 2024 | 8 comments

1498.

Collections: On Bread and Circuses (acoup.blog)

57 points by Tomte on Dec 20, 2024 | 5 comments

1499.

Scratch and Sniff Stickers and the Gas Panic of '87 (hackaday.com)

57 points by jlund-molfese on Dec 8, 2024 | 4 comments

1500.

Issues with object-oriented programming in Guile (2022) (dthompson.us)

57 points by BoingBoomTschak on Dec 28, 2024 | 4 comments