HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5101.

I salvaged $6k of luxury items discarded by Duke students (indyweek.com)

257 points by drvladb 10 months ago | 321 comments

5102.

Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank (theverge.com)

257 points by arnon 6 months ago | 319 comments

5103.

Obvious things C should do (digitalmars.com)

257 points by LorenDB on Jan 11, 2025 | 299 comments

5104.

Why Elixir? Common misconceptions (matthewsinclair.com)

257 points by ahamez 8 months ago | 292 comments

5105.

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' (npr.org)

257 points by seattle_spring 4 months ago | 281 comments

5106.

Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help (smithsonianmag.com)

257 points by lemonberry on Jan 18, 2025 | 251 comments

5107.

Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication (scientificamerican.com)

257 points by pavel_lishin 4 months ago | 219 comments

5108.

I kissed comment culture goodbye (sustainableviews.substack.com)

257 points by spyckie2 7 months ago | 211 comments

5109.

AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say (theguardian.com)

257 points by evolve2k 5 months ago | 209 comments

5110.

Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code (anthes.is)

257 points by maybebyte 8 months ago | 165 comments

5111.

If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app (blog.jgc.org)

257 points by jgrahamc 3 months ago | 162 comments

5112.

Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets (inferable.ai)

257 points by lunarcave on Jan 5, 2025 | 161 comments

5113.

Netflix’s Media Production Suite (netflixtechblog.com)

257 points by MattSayar on Apr 1, 2025 | 141 comments

5114.

GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders (thegamer.com)

257 points by haunter 5 months ago | 132 comments

5115.

Type-constrained code generation with language models (arxiv.org)

257 points by tough 10 months ago | 126 comments

5116.

Bad Dye Job (daringfireball.net)

257 points by mpweiher 4 months ago | 121 comments

5117.

Tunnl.gg (tunnl.gg)

257 points by klipitkas 4 months ago | 112 comments

5118.

From C++ to Clojure: Jank language promises best of both (thenewstack.io)

257 points by Jeaye on Jan 29, 2025 | 103 comments

5119.

Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+ (essenceia.github.io)

257 points by signa11 6 months ago | 99 comments

5120.

The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer (github.com)

257 points by kristianpaul 7 months ago | 92 comments

5121.

Kylie Minogue song about a typeface (abcdinamo.com)

257 points by fauverism on Mar 25, 2025 | 82 comments

5122.

Show HN: Plandex v2 – open source AI coding agent for large projects and tasks (github.com)

257 points by danenania 11 months ago | 81 comments

5123.

Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (2022) (linoscope.github.io)

257 points by ibobev 9 months ago | 76 comments

5124.

My teen years: The transputer operating system (nanochess.org)

257 points by nanochess on Mar 13, 2025 | 67 comments

5125.

From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max (questdb.com)

257 points by bluestreak 6 months ago | 59 comments

5126.

Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations (github.com)

257 points by RohanAdwankar 5 months ago | 59 comments

5127.

Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs (tinyhack.com)

257 points by costco on Mar 14, 2025 | 55 comments

5128.

I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)

257 points by benbreen 4 months ago | 49 comments

5129.

Show HN: DeepFace – A lightweight deep face recognition library for Python (github.com)

257 points by serengil on Jan 3, 2025 | 46 comments

5130.

How fast are Linux pipes anyway? (2022) (mazzo.li)

257 points by keepamovin 9 months ago | 43 comments