HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Leaving Meta and PyTorch (soumith.ch)

656 points by saikatsg 15 hours ago | 159 comments

2.

Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams (sherwood.news)

576 points by donohoe 9 hours ago | 442 comments

3.

A Fond Farewell (farmersalmanac.com)

544 points by erhuve 19 hours ago | 197 comments

4.

Game design is simple (raphkoster.com)

494 points by vrnvu 23 hours ago | 146 comments

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Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet – one peering connection at a time (coffee.link)

407 points by PhilKunz 5 hours ago | 154 comments

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Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts (gtaforums.com)

396 points by mrzool 3 hours ago | 248 comments

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Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 (apnews.com)

310 points by c420 5 hours ago | 221 comments

8.

I Love OCaml (mccd.space)

258 points by art-w 8 hours ago | 163 comments

9.

Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site (prison.josh.mn)

248 points by zuhayeer 14 hours ago | 172 comments

10.

OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation (openmw.org)

243 points by agluszak 8 hours ago | 87 comments

11.

A Note on Fil-C (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

226 points by signa11 21 hours ago | 177 comments

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Gmail AI gets more intrusive (daveverse.org)

208 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 127 comments

13.

A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot' (nytimes.com)

190 points by pretext 6 hours ago | 148 comments

14.

Scientists find ways to boost memory in aging brains (news.vt.edu)

166 points by stevenjgarner 21 hours ago | 49 comments

15.

Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault (bbc.com)

157 points by onemoresoop 23 hours ago | 120 comments

16.

James Watson has died (nytimes.com)

136 points by granzymes 2 hours ago | 44 comments

17.

We chose OCaml to write Stategraph (stategraph.dev)

135 points by lawnchair 8 hours ago | 100 comments

18.

The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire (motherjones.com)

132 points by hhs 22 hours ago | 8 comments

19.

Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line (kensegall.com)

129 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 97 comments

20.

Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages (github.com)

121 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 52 comments

21.

YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' (news.itsfoss.com)

117 points by WaitWaitWha 1 hour ago | 24 comments

22.

Ruby Solved My Problem (newsletter.masilotti.com)

109 points by joemasilotti 3 hours ago | 39 comments

23.

Dead Framework Theory (aifoc.us)

95 points by jhuleatt 18 hours ago | 124 comments

24.

Is Software the UFOlogy of Engineering Disciplines? (codemanship.wordpress.com)

92 points by flail 9 hours ago | 159 comments

25.

VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025 (fsfe.org)

88 points by kirschner 1 hour ago | 7 comments

26.

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal' (theguardian.com)

87 points by mykowebhn 23 hours ago | 123 comments

27.

Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week (phys.org)