HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

9391.

Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture (theconversation.com)

158 points by PaulHoule 9 months ago | 78 comments

9392.

Projects evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised (isitreallyfoss.com)

158 points by exiguus 5 months ago | 66 comments

9393.

JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective (purplesyringa.moe)

158 points by vrnvu 2 months ago | 65 comments

9394.

Mind the encryptionroot: How to save your data when ZFS loses its mind (sambowman.tech)

158 points by 6581 3 months ago | 58 comments

9395.

Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI Revealed (motherjones.com)

158 points by miles 9 months ago | 57 comments

9396.

Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine (cesium.com)

158 points by doodlesdev on Jan 1, 2025 | 56 comments

9397.

The world of Japan's PC-98 computer (strangecomforts.com)

158 points by ecliptik 7 months ago | 53 comments

9398.

Test Postgres in Python Like SQLite (github.com)

158 points by wey-gu 7 months ago | 52 comments

9399.

Departing the New York Times (contrarian.substack.com)

158 points by herbertl 11 months ago | 49 comments

9400.

Verus: Verified Rust for low-level systems code (github.com)

158 points by mmcloughlin 8 months ago | 48 comments

9401.

Writing Cursor rules with a Cursor rule (adithyan.io)

158 points by adithyan_win 9 months ago | 47 comments

9402.

A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails (blog.appsignal.com)

158 points by fbuilesv 6 months ago | 47 comments

9403.

Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) [pdf] (kcsrk.info)

158 points by matt_d 4 months ago | 47 comments

9404.

Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files (npmjs.com)

158 points by yar-kravtsov 2 months ago | 47 comments

9405.

Reflecting on WikiTok (aizk.sh)

158 points by aizk 9 months ago | 46 comments

9406.

Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco (fieldnotes.nautilus.quest)

158 points by zackoverflow 1 month ago | 46 comments

9407.

Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions (blog.google)

158 points by meetpateltech 3 months ago | 44 comments

9408.

Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue (nature.com)

158 points by bikenaga 1 month ago | 44 comments

9409.

The State of Vim (lwn.net)

158 points by yla92 on Jan 11, 2025 | 43 comments

9410.

DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025 (perl.com)

158 points by oalders 3 months ago | 42 comments

9411.

Elements of System Design (github.com)

158 points by qianli_cs 5 months ago | 37 comments

9412.

Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation (attentionmech.github.io)

158 points by vimgrinder 7 months ago | 36 comments

9413.

PythonBPF – Writing eBPF Programs in Pure Python (xeon.me)

158 points by JNRowe 4 months ago | 35 comments

9414.

Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++ (gau-nernst.github.io)

158 points by dsr12 4 months ago | 34 comments

9415.

How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

158 points by dvaun 4 weeks ago | 32 comments

9416.

Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font (spacebar.news)

158 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 31 comments

9417.

Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem (infoq.com)

158 points by adityaathalye 4 months ago | 27 comments

9418.

Show HN: Tool-Assisted Speedrunning the Boring Parts of Animal Crossing (GCN) (github.com)

158 points by hunterirving 7 months ago | 22 comments

9419.

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78 (theguardian.com)

158 points by helsinkiandrew on Jan 16, 2025 | 2 comments

9420.

Llama from scratch (2023) (blog.briankitano.com)

158 points by sebg 8 months ago | 2 comments