HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years (bbc.co.uk)

891 points by rajeshrajappan 13 hours ago | 209 comments

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Ruby 4.0.0 (ruby-lang.org)

668 points by FBISurveillance 20 hours ago | 149 comments

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Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study (case.edu)

414 points by thunderbong 9 hours ago | 104 comments

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I sell onions on the Internet (2019) (deepsouthventures.com)

348 points by sogen 8 hours ago | 102 comments

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Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached (github.com)

330 points by xvilka 13 hours ago | 205 comments

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Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (fidget-spinner.github.io)

302 points by lumpa 11 hours ago | 98 comments

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Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations (fsf.org)

203 points by pentagrama 19 hours ago | 33 comments

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Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI (maarthandam.com)

167 points by whynotmaybe 9 hours ago | 100 comments

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Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024) (daniel.lawrence.lu)

163 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | 145 comments

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UBlockOrigin and UBlacklist AI Blocklist (github.com)

112 points by _____k 4 hours ago | 40 comments

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Fahrplan – 39C3 (fahrplan.events.ccc.de)

105 points by rurban 5 hours ago | 10 comments

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Maybe the default settings are too high (raptitude.com)

99 points by htk 1 hour ago | 14 comments

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Python Applied Mathematics Labs (labs.acme.byu.edu)

83 points by vvin 20 hours ago | 2 comments

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Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address (9to5google.com)

72 points by geox 2 hours ago | 57 comments

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The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind (mirari.vitasys.nl)

72 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 15 comments

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Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI (windowslatest.com)

67 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 95 comments

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All I Want for Christmas Is Your Secrets: LangGrinch hits LangChain Core (cyata.ai)

64 points by shahartal 6 hours ago | 39 comments

18.

Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM (algassert.com)

61 points by EvgeniyZh 15 hours ago | 17 comments

19.

Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?

57 points by KellyCriterion 7 hours ago | 23 comments

20.

Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture (0l.de)

56 points by stv0g 15 hours ago | 9 comments

21.

No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats (nolongerevil.com)

49 points by pabs3 20 hours ago | 6 comments

22.

URL Pattern API (developer.mozilla.org)

43 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 11 comments

23.

AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words (substack.com)

39 points by llamataboot 20 hours ago | 23 comments

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Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers (stackoverflow.blog)

35 points by slroger 8 hours ago | 8 comments

25.

Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit

32 points by MITfather 9 hours ago | 34 comments

26.

Donald Knuth's 2025 Christmas lecture: the Knight's Tours (thenewstack.io)

29 points by MilnerRoute 7 hours ago | 2 comments

27.

Ultra-Low-Latency Trading System (submicro.krishnabajpai.me)

28 points by krish678 10 hours ago | 63 comments

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LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled "60 Minutes" segment (arstechnica.com)