HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Remembering Bob Lee

2090 points by aEJ04Izw5HYm on Apr 5, 2023 | 217 comments

2.

Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points by l2silver on Apr 27, 2023 | 1796 comments

3.

If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed (sbstatesman.com)

1790 points by raybb on Apr 6, 2023 | 588 comments

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StableLM: A new open-source language model (stability.ai)

1502 points by davidbarker on Apr 19, 2023 | 497 comments

5.

Space Elevator (neal.fun)

1456 points by nivethan on Apr 19, 2023 | 207 comments

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Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers (phind.com)

1401 points by rushingcreek on Apr 12, 2023 | 414 comments

7.

The early days of Linux (lwn.net)

1378 points by Paul-Craft on Apr 13, 2023 | 220 comments

8.

Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard (github.com)

1362 points by kieto on Apr 12, 2023 | 209 comments

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Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens (slate.com)

1322 points by NN88 on Apr 26, 2023 | 979 comments

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Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco (sfgate.com)

1314 points by rdl on Apr 5, 2023 | 2780 comments

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The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos (eff.org)

1264 points by glitcher on Apr 21, 2023 | 463 comments

12.

Clock (oimo.io)

1232 points by notmysql_ on Apr 18, 2023 | 164 comments

13.

The Mullvad Browser (mullvad.net)

1182 points by Foxboron on Apr 3, 2023 | 419 comments

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Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75% (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

1163 points by ylere on Apr 10, 2023 | 422 comments

15.

The day Windows died (thomasbandt.com)

1146 points by alexzeitler on Apr 2, 2023 | 893 comments

16.

Load Balancing (samwho.dev)

1143 points by kiyanwang on Apr 16, 2023 | 217 comments

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CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg (thedriven.io)

1099 points by rippercushions on Apr 21, 2023 | 843 comments

18.

Datomic is Free (blog.datomic.com)

1099 points by xmlblog on Apr 27, 2023 | 368 comments

19.

Astral (astral.sh)

1078 points by hasheddan on Apr 18, 2023 | 236 comments

20.

Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm (nitrokey.com)

1077 points by h1x on Apr 25, 2023 | 330 comments

21.

Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station (floor796.com)

1066 points by justsomehnguy on Apr 10, 2023 | 118 comments

22.

Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining

1025 points by newZWhoDis on Apr 5, 2023 | 391 comments

23.

De-Stressing Booking.com (2019) (alexcharlton.co)

965 points by robin_reala on Apr 16, 2023 | 361 comments

24.

Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me? (nytimes.com)

957 points by deeg on Apr 7, 2023 | 992 comments

25.

SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas (apnews.com)

955 points by fnordpiglet on Apr 20, 2023 | 1234 comments

26.

Spinning Diagrams with CSS (x.st)

954 points by hrldcpr on Apr 20, 2023 | 42 comments

27.

MiniGPT-4 (minigpt-4.github.io)

949 points by GaggiX on Apr 17, 2023 | 283 comments

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New Orleans teenagers found a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem (keith-mcnulty.medium.com)