HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025 (xania.org)

372 points by vismit2000 1 day ago | 64 comments

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Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen

366 points by SmolCloud 2 days ago | 8 comments

63.

Google unkills JPEG XL? (tonisagrista.com)

363 points by speckx 2 days ago | 265 comments

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Advent of Sysadmin 2025 (sadservers.com)

362 points by lazyant 2 days ago | 126 comments

65.

Be Like Clippy (be-clippy.com)

356 points by Aloha 4 days ago | 214 comments

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A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z (nealstephenson.substack.com)

355 points by boplicity 5 days ago | 135 comments

67.

We're losing our voice to LLMs (tonyalicea.dev)

354 points by TonyAlicea10 6 days ago | 401 comments

68.

The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle (fxrant.blogspot.com)

352 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 151 comments

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Cartographers have been hiding illustrations inside Switzerland’s maps (2020) (eyeondesign.aiga.org)

347 points by mhb 2 days ago | 79 comments

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10 years of writing a blog nobody reads (flowtwo.io)

344 points by thejoeflow 6 days ago | 178 comments

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GitHub to Codeberg: my experience (eldred.fr)

343 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 132 comments

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Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB (tomshardware.com)

342 points by doener 8 hours ago | 223 comments

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Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella (cnbc.com)

341 points by saubeidl 3 days ago | 169 comments

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How to Attend Meetings (docs.google.com)

339 points by spagoop 2 days ago | 175 comments

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250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland (energy-storage.news)

333 points by doener 5 days ago | 249 comments

76.

System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 (macos9lives.com)

333 points by ibobev 4 days ago | 109 comments

77.

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode (github.com)

331 points by hajtom 5 hours ago | 193 comments

78.

Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document (lesswrong.com)

330 points by the-needful 1 day ago | 228 comments

79.

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs (lwn.net)

328 points by messe 1 day ago | 242 comments

80.

“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran (twitter.com)

325 points by defly 3 days ago | 121 comments

81.

Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it (apnews.com)

323 points by MilnerRoute 3 days ago | 348 comments

82.

Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? (dub.uu.nl)

322 points by robtherobber 5 days ago | 367 comments

83.

Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton (areweanticheatyet.com)

318 points by doener 2 days ago | 470 comments

84.

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files (alexschapiro.com)

318 points by bearsyankees 3 hours ago | 94 comments

85.

Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k (gamesindustry.biz)

314 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 179 comments

86.

The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy (simonandschuster.com)

313 points by brunohaid 6 days ago | 262 comments

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Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026 (businessinsider.com)