top 20 hacker news stories for 2024-05-10

Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/lucknerhaus/

9 months ago

1623 upvotes – 378 comments

Jim Simons has died

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/simons-foundation-co-founder-mathematician-and-investor-jim-simons-dies-at-86/

9 months ago

1143 upvotes – 319 comments

Show HN: A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318542

9 months ago

886 upvotes – 233 comments

Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/533/20240510-cme-impact-imminent-two-more-earth-directed-cmes.html

9 months ago

523 upvotes – 402 comments

Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile

9 months ago

413 upvotes – 205 comments

100k Stars

https://stars.chromeexperiments.com/

9 months ago

389 upvotes – 101 comments

Popover API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Popover_API

9 months ago

385 upvotes – 158 comments

KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features

https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417353193348720

9 months ago

312 upvotes – 349 comments

Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/science/whale-song-alphabet.html

9 months ago

252 upvotes – 200 comments

One Minute Park

https://oneminutepark.tv/

9 months ago

225 upvotes – 24 comments

Roman Tyrian purple snail dye found in UK for first time

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjje132jvygo

9 months ago

223 upvotes – 99 comments

So We've Got a Memory Leak

https://stevenharman.net/so-we-have-a-memory-leak

9 months ago

219 upvotes – 147 comments

Why you can hear the temperature of water

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/science/hot-water-sound-cold.html

9 months ago

206 upvotes – 146 comments

Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real than complex?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/470951/is-the-largest-root-of-a-random-polynomial-more-likely-to-be-real-than-complex

9 months ago

203 upvotes – 121 comments

CS388: Natural Language Processing

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gdurrett/courses/online-course/materials.html

9 months ago

178 upvotes – 10 comments

Elvish, expressive programming language and a versatile interactive shell

https://elv.sh

9 months ago

177 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell

https://github.com/noisysockets/nsh

9 months ago

170 upvotes – 74 comments

Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics

https://davekilian.com/acquire-release.html

9 months ago

159 upvotes – 69 comments

The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/

9 months ago

145 upvotes – 110 comments

Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)

https://www.vox.com/22559293/food-waste-expiration-label-best-before

9 months ago

141 upvotes – 274 comments
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