HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2491.

Perl's decline was cultural (beatworm.co.uk)

395 points by todsacerdoti 2 weeks ago | 452 comments

2492.

I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time (samj.substack.com)

395 points by url 7 months ago | 314 comments

2493.

DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware (github.com)

395 points by tosh 3 months ago | 283 comments

2494.

Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy (washingtonpost.com)

395 points by reaperducer 4 months ago | 241 comments

2495.

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads (nature.com)

395 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 236 comments

2496.

Botswana launches first satellite BOTSAT-1 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 (spaceinafrica.com)

395 points by vinnyglennon 8 months ago | 225 comments

2497.

How to Think About GPUs (jax-ml.github.io)

395 points by alphabetting 4 months ago | 120 comments

2498.

A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards) (benjoffe.com)

395 points by benjoffe 4 weeks ago | 93 comments

2499.

A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut (science.nasa.gov)

395 points by acossta 4 months ago | 92 comments

2500.

Open Deep Research (github.com)

395 points by transpute 10 months ago | 77 comments

2501.

DeepSeek-Prover-V2 (github.com)

395 points by meetpateltech 7 months ago | 77 comments

2502.

Celebrating 20 Years of MDN (developer.mozilla.org)

395 points by soheilpro 4 months ago | 58 comments

2503.

You don't want to hire "the best engineers" (otherbranch.com)

394 points by rachofsunshine 3 months ago | 319 comments

2504.

Tinnitus Neuromodulator (mynoise.net)

394 points by gjvc 2 months ago | 249 comments

2505.

Life is more than an engineering problem (lareviewofbooks.org)

394 points by biomene 10 months ago | 243 comments

2506.

GPT-5-Codex (openai.com)

394 points by meetpateltech 3 months ago | 137 comments

2507.

ACM Transitions to Full Open Access (acm.org)

394 points by pcvarmint 4 months ago | 59 comments

2508.

Nostr (nostr.com)

393 points by dtj1123 3 months ago | 332 comments

2509.

How I fell in love with Erlang (boragonul.com)

393 points by asabil 1 month ago | 248 comments

2510.

Advanced Python Features (blog.edward-li.com)

393 points by BerislavLopac 7 months ago | 176 comments

2511.

Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers (blog.edward-li.com)

393 points by edwardjxli 6 months ago | 159 comments

2512.

The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users (eff.org)

393 points by CharlesW 2 months ago | 157 comments

2513.

Visualizing All ISBNs (annas-archive.org)

393 points by RyanShook 11 months ago | 139 comments

2514.

Brian Wilson has died (pitchfork.com)

393 points by coloneltcb 6 months ago | 129 comments

2515.

What a Hacker Stole from Me (mynoise.net)

393 points by wonger_ 5 months ago | 122 comments

2516.

Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility (github.com)

393 points by kylecarbs 2 weeks ago | 115 comments

2517.

Long live American Science and Surplus (milwaukeerecord.com)

393 points by thinkalone 6 months ago | 112 comments

2518.

Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage

393 points by kinj28 2 months ago | 95 comments

2519.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order (cpb.org)

392 points by coloneltcb 7 months ago | 555 comments

2520.

My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures (sankalp.bearblog.dev)

392 points by dejavucoder 5 months ago | 379 comments