HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)

770 points by tux3 16 hours ago | 321 comments

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Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button (nuejs.org)

690 points by tipiirai 23 hours ago | 499 comments

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The April Fools joke that might have got me fired (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

472 points by goldenskye 22 hours ago | 228 comments

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Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news (app.fluentsubs.com)

437 points by ph4evers 23 hours ago | 166 comments

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Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 (bbc.com)

368 points by danso 16 hours ago | 61 comments

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Glubux's Powerwall (2016) (secondlifestorage.com)

362 points by bentobean 13 hours ago | 232 comments

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Why F#? (batsov.com)

318 points by bozhidar 16 hours ago | 277 comments

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CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)

305 points by mackopes 18 hours ago | 100 comments

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US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back (independent.co.uk)

207 points by croes 20 hours ago | 130 comments

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Self-Hosting like it's 2025 (kiranet.org)

204 points by finnlab 19 hours ago | 213 comments

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Dave Täht has died (libreqos.io)

196 points by mhandley 10 hours ago | 38 comments

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Show HN: Qwen-2.5-32B is now the best open source OCR model (github.com)

191 points by themanmaran 12 hours ago | 40 comments

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DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com)

183 points by pavel_lishin 8 hours ago | 63 comments

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The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst (glthr.com)

181 points by tobr 12 hours ago | 48 comments

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Ask HN: Why hasn’t AMD made a viable CUDA alternative?

164 points by spacebanana7 14 hours ago | 163 comments

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Systems Correctness Practices at AWS: Leveraging Formal and Semi-Formal Methods (queue.acm.org)

138 points by yarapavan 14 hours ago | 38 comments

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RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components (github.com)

133 points by ksec 13 hours ago | 26 comments

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Shared DNA in Music (pudding.cool)

133 points by ksampath02 8 hours ago | 25 comments

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The state of binary compatibility on Linux and how to address it (jangafx.com)

108 points by generichuman 7 hours ago | 69 comments

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How Silica Gel Took Over the World (scopeofwork.net)

105 points by Hooke 9 hours ago | 78 comments

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We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains (asteriskmag.com)

104 points by l1n 14 hours ago | 100 comments

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Tell HN: Camelgate NPM Outage (Cloudflare)

104 points by bavarianbob 13 hours ago | 26 comments

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'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US (bbc.com)

94 points by isaacfrond 20 hours ago | 78 comments

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Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing (github.com)

93 points by ww520 11 hours ago | 34 comments

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Show HN: Terminal dashboard that throttles my PC during peak electricity rates (naveen.ing)

87 points by naveen_k 14 hours ago | 58 comments

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Val Kilmer has passed away (nytimes.com)

86 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | 25 comments

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LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite (theregister.com)

84 points by abawany 23 hours ago | 68 comments

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Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst (theguardian.com)