top 10 hacker news stories for 2024-06-01

Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago

https://torrentfreak.com/napster-sparked-a-file-sharing-revolution-25-years-ago-250601/

11 months ago

389 upvotes – 334 comments

ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically

https://root.cern/

11 months ago

356 upvotes – 93 comments

Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news

https://www.science.org/content/article/tiny-number-supersharers-spread-vast-majority-fake-news

a year ago

317 upvotes – 320 comments

Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithm

https://github.com/francisrstokes/githublog/blob/main/2024%2F5%2F29%2Ffast-inverse-sqrt.md

11 months ago

309 upvotes – 72 comments

L(O*62).ONG: Make your URL longer

https://loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ong

11 months ago

301 upvotes – 127 comments

Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license

https://shakti.com/k

11 months ago

294 upvotes – 227 comments

Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/31/footwork-10/

11 months ago

275 upvotes – 141 comments

60 kHz (2022)

https://ben.page/wwvb

a year ago

250 upvotes – 150 comments

Lisp: Icing or Cake?

https://dthompson.us/posts/lisp-icing-or-cake.html

11 months ago

244 upvotes – 52 comments

Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet

https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/05/27/goldfish-memories/

11 months ago

244 upvotes – 85 comments
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