HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

691.

My fake job in Y2K preparedness (nplusonemag.com)

151 points by bookofjoe on Aug 31, 2024 | 96 comments

692.

Video with Alpha Transparency on the Web (jakearchibald.com)

151 points by surprisetalk on Aug 8, 2024 | 62 comments

693.

Apple. Apple Please (digipres.club)

151 points by ciclotrone on Aug 10, 2024 | 60 comments

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Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online platforms (github.com)

151 points by swyx on Aug 23, 2024 | 46 comments

695.

Making database systems usable (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

150 points by jamesblonde on Aug 20, 2024 | 154 comments

696.

The Threat to OpenAI (wsj.com)

150 points by bookofjoe on Aug 31, 2024 | 152 comments

697.

Banks Are Now Accused of Cheating Customers Billions (franknez.com)

150 points by randycupertino on Aug 16, 2024 | 70 comments

698.

1991 WWW-NeXT Implementation (github.com)

150 points by ulrischa on Aug 2, 2024 | 52 comments

699.

Surveillance Watch – the hidden connections within the surveillance industry (surveillancewatch.io)

150 points by nabla9 on Aug 18, 2024 | 37 comments

700.

How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI (justinmath.com)

150 points by ahiknsr on Aug 17, 2024 | 32 comments

701.

Degas: Detailed Expressions on Full-Body Gaussian Avatars (initialneil.github.io)

150 points by smusamashah on Aug 21, 2024 | 13 comments

702.

Susan Wojcicki has died (facebook.com)

150 points by nmwnmw on Aug 10, 2024 | 2 comments

703.

Ruby's official documentation just got a new look (docs.ruby-lang.org)

149 points by thunderbong on Aug 25, 2024 | 104 comments

704.

Can reading make you happier? (2015) (newyorker.com)

149 points by kawera on Aug 3, 2024 | 102 comments

705.

Tsung-Dao Lee, physicist who challenged a law of nature, has died (nytimes.com)

149 points by nsoonhui on Aug 6, 2024 | 78 comments

706.

Making an atomic trampoline [video] (youtube.com)

149 points by matricaria on Aug 31, 2024 | 58 comments

707.

Carvings at Gobekli Tepe may be oldest calendar (tandfonline.com)

149 points by cynicalpeace on Aug 6, 2024 | 36 comments

708.

How Does OpenAI Survive? (wheresyoured.at)

148 points by fredski42 on Aug 1, 2024 | 188 comments

709.

Trainwreck Design (j3s.sh)

148 points by j3s on Aug 14, 2024 | 103 comments

710.

Mathematicians prove Hawking wrong about the most extreme black holes (quantamagazine.org)

148 points by worldvoyageur on Aug 21, 2024 | 68 comments

711.

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released (theregister.com)

148 points by defrost on Aug 6, 2024 | 48 comments

712.

OpenBSD 7.5 via QEMU on Hetzner physical machine (no phys. access / KVM console) (hackmd.gfuzz.de)

148 points by hoschi_ on Aug 11, 2024 | 47 comments

713.

Transponder Landing System enables precision approaches at McMurdo in Antarctica (flightradar24.com)

148 points by rmnwski on Aug 14, 2024 | 41 comments

714.

Building Bubbletea Programs (leg100.github.io)

148 points by paranoidxprod on Aug 27, 2024 | 38 comments

715.

LLMs know more than what they say (arjunbansal.substack.com)

148 points by nqnielsen on Aug 19, 2024 | 18 comments

716.

Programming a CH32v003 with light (mitxela.com)

148 points by blutack on Aug 2, 2024 | 13 comments

717.

How the SNES Graphics System Works (fabiensanglard.net)

148 points by ingve on Aug 10, 2024 | 8 comments

718.

The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted (gizmodo.com)

147 points by rntn on Aug 26, 2024 | 177 comments

719.

We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency (hardcover.app)

147 points by dyogenez on Aug 15, 2024 | 168 comments

720.

Nvidia reportedly delays its next AI chip due to a design flaw (theverge.com)

147 points by mgh2 on Aug 4, 2024 | 95 comments