HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

23041.

I Never Cared Much for Swords. Then I Had to Fight with One (thewalrus.ca)

47 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 54 comments

23042.

Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers demonstrate a lighter (apnews.com)

47 points by geox on Feb 16, 2025 | 51 comments

23043.

Shipping at Inference-Speed (steipete.me)

47 points by xngbuilds 4 months ago | 51 comments

23044.

The Adrian Dittmann Story (maia.crimew.gay)

47 points by usdogu on Jan 5, 2025 | 49 comments

23045.

A CarFax for Used PCs: Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life (spectrum.ieee.org)

47 points by miles 10 months ago | 49 comments

23046.

Understanding Cultural Differences: The Michigan Fish Test (2013) (michael-roberto.blogspot.com)

47 points by vector_spaces 7 months ago | 49 comments

23047.

Breakthrough in antimatter production (home.cern)

47 points by doener 6 months ago | 48 comments

23048.

Small changes that made our daily stand-ups more useful (progractivity.com)

47 points by dkoprowski 9 months ago | 47 comments

23049.

We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)

47 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 47 comments

23050.

Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl (techcrunch.com)

47 points by akyuu 10 months ago | 46 comments

23051.

Europe cannot rely on US protection, Pentagon chief tells NATO allies (telegraph.co.uk)

47 points by perihelions on Feb 13, 2025 | 45 comments

23052.

Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded? (arstechnica.com)

47 points by rbanffy on Mar 20, 2025 | 45 comments

23053.

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks (spectrum.ieee.org)

47 points by pseudolus 10 months ago | 45 comments

23054.

French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office (france24.com)

47 points by WastedCucumber on Mar 31, 2025 | 44 comments

23055.

Show HN: Header-only GIF decoder in pure C – no malloc, easy to use

47 points by FerkiHN 9 months ago | 42 comments

23056.

Arduino UNO Q bridges high-performance computing with real-time control (arduino.cc)

47 points by doener 5 months ago | 42 comments

23057.

Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically (garymarcus.substack.com)

47 points by NotInOurNames 10 months ago | 41 comments

23058.

Show HN: Dlog – Journaling and AI coach that learns what drives wellbeing (Mac) (dlog.pro)

47 points by dr-j 6 months ago | 39 comments

23059.

Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit

47 points by MITfather 4 months ago | 39 comments

23060.

VMware turns its back on small businesses: 72-core license policy backlash (systemadministration.net)

47 points by walterbell on Mar 24, 2025 | 38 comments

23061.

Tetrachromatic Vision (bookofjoe.com)

47 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 38 comments

23062.

Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem (theconversation.com)

47 points by zeristor on Mar 17, 2025 | 37 comments

23063.

What Happens When There Are No Deals? – Paul Krugman (paulkrugman.substack.com)

47 points by rbanffy on Apr 29, 2025 | 36 comments

23064.

Could a Paper Plane Thrown from the ISS Survive the Flight? (sciencealert.com)

47 points by dxs 10 months ago | 36 comments

23065.

Fuse is 95% cheaper and 10x faster than NFS (nilesh-agarwal.com)

47 points by agcat 9 months ago | 36 comments

23066.

Ask HN: Is building for the web even worth it now?

47 points by spaceman_2020 6 months ago | 36 comments

23067.

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%' (theregister.com)

47 points by jjgreen on Jan 5, 2025 | 35 comments

23068.

What will happen if you do an entire woodworking project using a VR headset? [video] (youtube.com)