HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

7621.

The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish (scottandrew.com)

191 points by SeenNotHeard 9 months ago | 45 comments

7622.

People Keep Inventing Prolly Trees (dolthub.com)

191 points by lifty 9 months ago | 44 comments

7623.

Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns (wikenigma.org.uk)

191 points by jgamman on Jan 25, 2025 | 43 comments

7624.

Ethersync: Peer-to-peer collaborative editing of local text files (github.com)

191 points by blinry 8 months ago | 34 comments

7625.

Old Timey Code and Old Timey Mono Fonts (github.com)

191 points by dsevil 11 months ago | 33 comments

7626.

How I ended up flying for Yemen's national airline – and survived (pprune.org)

191 points by techonup 11 months ago | 31 comments

7627.

Czech Republic: Petition for open source in public administration (portal.gov.cz)

191 points by harvie 10 months ago | 31 comments

7628.

DeepRAG: Thinking to retrieval step by step for large language models (arxiv.org)

191 points by fofoz on Feb 4, 2025 | 29 comments

7629.

Brandon's Semiconductor Simulator (brandonli.net)

191 points by dominikh 11 months ago | 28 comments

7630.

VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III (vcmi.eu)

191 points by eamag 4 months ago | 27 comments

7631.

The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016) (ruder.io)

191 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 17, 2025 | 20 comments

7632.

Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust (chriis.dev)

191 points by bustylasercanon on Jan 29, 2025 | 16 comments

7633.

How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression (datadoghq.com)

191 points by gandem 9 months ago | 10 comments

7634.

"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing (sparktoro.com)

190 points by botanicals6 10 months ago | 278 comments

7635.

Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe? (bbc.com)

190 points by justin66 on Mar 7, 2025 | 277 comments

7636.

Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017) (blog.tartanllama.xyz)

190 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 249 comments

7637.

Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024) (aumont.fr)

190 points by psxuaw on Mar 31, 2025 | 243 comments

7638.

Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI (wired.com)

190 points by totaldude87 on Mar 21, 2025 | 201 comments

7639.

A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) (prog21.dadgum.com)

190 points by Bogdanp 8 months ago | 199 comments

7640.

Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev (blog.kilocode.ai)

190 points by twapi 8 months ago | 160 comments

7641.

A lifetime of social ties adds up to healthy aging (news.cornell.edu)

190 points by XzetaU8 6 months ago | 156 comments

7642.

DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next (arstechnica.com)

190 points by uxjw on Mar 10, 2025 | 154 comments

7643.

Using Generative AI in Content Production (partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com)

190 points by CaRDiaK 5 months ago | 150 comments

7644.

E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays (newatlas.com)

190 points by Brajeshwar on Feb 11, 2025 | 145 comments

7645.

Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Passed Mars Last Night (earthsky.org)

190 points by jandrewrogers 6 months ago | 145 comments

7646.

OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level (pixelstech.net)

190 points by thunderbong 11 months ago | 139 comments

7647.

The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years (sigwait.org)

190 points by henry_flower 7 months ago | 137 comments

7648.

Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy (retrohax.net)

190 points by ibobev 6 months ago | 129 comments

7649.

Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface (github.com)

190 points by vismit2000 5 months ago | 118 comments

7650.

What happened with the CIA and The Paris Review? (theparisreview.org)

190 points by benbreen 5 months ago | 116 comments