HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The bottleneck might be the air in the room (blog.mikebowler.ca)

754 points by gslin 17 hours ago | 430 comments

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Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)

453 points by javxfps 7 hours ago | 250 comments

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Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)

412 points by tylerdane 20 hours ago | 190 comments

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Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)

374 points by theanonymousone 12 hours ago | 52 comments

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Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com)

319 points by asronline 4 hours ago | 131 comments

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Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (software.annas-archive.gl)

305 points by Cider9986 7 hours ago | 152 comments

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Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com)

268 points by chatmasta 10 hours ago | 126 comments

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Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (tomshardware.com)

211 points by sensanaty 7 hours ago | 74 comments

9.

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (quantamagazine.org)

187 points by jnord 15 hours ago | 120 comments

10.

Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)

163 points by gm678 19 hours ago | 78 comments

11.

Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)

142 points by azhenley 21 hours ago | 35 comments

12.

MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)

138 points by MrBruh 23 hours ago | 58 comments

13.

David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)

135 points by gregsadetsky 18 hours ago | 33 comments

14.

Verizon is About to Break our Watches (jefftk.com)

124 points by jefftk 6 hours ago | 64 comments

15.

Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)

121 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 41 comments

16.

Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)

121 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 24 comments

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GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com)

114 points by maille 2 hours ago | 29 comments

18.

Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference (irishtimes.com)

108 points by 01-_- 5 hours ago | 40 comments

19.

No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth (eso.org)

106 points by Breadmaker 7 hours ago | 192 comments

20.

Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)

98 points by adamraudonis 8 hours ago | 31 comments

21.

Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (euronews.com)

92 points by ohjeez 7 hours ago | 23 comments

22.

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com)

87 points by msephton 9 hours ago | 17 comments

23.

AI has torched the market for junior programmers (seldo.com)

84 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | 157 comments

24.

Better Models: Worse Tools (lucumr.pocoo.org)

77 points by leemoore 4 hours ago | 23 comments

25.

As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (seattletimes.com)

70 points by petethomas 5 hours ago | 103 comments

26.

The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)

69 points by AlexeyBrin 12 hours ago | 0 comments

27.

2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (hyperstitionai.com)

59 points by networked 18 hours ago | 139 comments

28.

Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012) (vimeo.com)

56 points by jruohonen 7 hours ago | 34 comments

29.

Plein Air (art.joonas.wtf)

56 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 7 comments

30.

How working memory could give rise to consciousness (scientificamerican.com)

48 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 57 comments