HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Size of Life (neal.fun)

1446 points by eatonphil 10 hours ago | 179 comments

2.

Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental (lwn.net)

925 points by rascul 23 hours ago | 719 comments

3.

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (heise.de)

542 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 9 hours ago | 310 comments

4.

Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon (the307.substack.com)

416 points by cramsession 11 hours ago | 369 comments

5.

In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution (e360.yale.edu)

408 points by Brajeshwar 11 hours ago | 421 comments

6.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (karpathy.bearblog.dev)

316 points by __rito__ 9 hours ago | 154 comments

7.

DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says (finance.yahoo.com)

287 points by goodway 10 hours ago | 266 comments

8.

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration (ankursethi.com)

274 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 111 comments

9.

Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler" (eli.thegreenplace.net)

257 points by cui 20 hours ago | 40 comments

10.

I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop (dnhkng.github.io)

231 points by dnhkng 7 hours ago | 48 comments

11.

Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model (qwen.ai)

203 points by pretext 10 hours ago | 84 comments

12.

Super Mario 64 for the PS1 (github.com)

173 points by LaserDiscMan 7 hours ago | 59 comments

13.

NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months (airqualitynews.com)

161 points by pseudolus 23 hours ago | 201 comments

14.

Is it a bubble? (oaktreecapital.com)

149 points by saigrandhi 9 hours ago | 229 comments

15.

Stop Breaking TLS (markround.com)

144 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 125 comments

16.

'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay (dri.es)

128 points by geerlingguy 23 hours ago | 145 comments

17.

Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA (alpranalysis.com)

121 points by sodality2 9 hours ago | 75 comments

18.

US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry (bbc.co.uk)

119 points by neversaydie 14 hours ago | 245 comments

19.

Apple Services Experiencing Outage (apple.com)

114 points by rock_artist 6 hours ago | 54 comments

20.

Factor 0.101 now available (re.factorcode.org)

108 points by birdculture 15 hours ago | 12 comments

21.

New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care (swordhealth.com)

106 points by RicardoRei 13 hours ago | 148 comments

22.

McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash (bbc.co.uk)

101 points by mindracer 13 hours ago | 139 comments

23.

Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise (arxiv.org)

99 points by kelseyfrog 8 hours ago | 26 comments

24.

The future of Terraform CDK (github.com)

88 points by mfornasa 7 hours ago | 90 comments

25.

EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws (eff.org)

82 points by iamnothere 6 hours ago | 33 comments

26.

Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands (newyorker.com)

81 points by rbanffy 11 hours ago | 206 comments

27.

COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in (tritium.legal)

79 points by piker 11 hours ago | 33 comments

28.

RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes (phys.org)

72 points by smurda 11 hours ago | 34 comments

29.

Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri (bbc.com)

64 points by jnord 4 hours ago | 4 comments

30.

Dependable C (dependablec.org)

63 points by RossBencina 22 hours ago | 61 comments