HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

181.

Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern" (seangoedecke.com)

166 points by jxmorris12 2 days ago | 103 comments

182.

Is 2026 next year? (google.com)

166 points by kjhughes 1 day ago | 102 comments

183.

Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days (letsencrypt.org)

165 points by abraham 1 day ago | 144 comments

184.

Europe's New War on Privacy (unherd.com)

164 points by joecobb 4 days ago | 76 comments

185.

SmartTube Compromised (aftvnews.com)

163 points by akersten 2 days ago | 147 comments

186.

Vsora Jotunn-8 5nm European inference chip (vsora.com)

160 points by rdg42 6 days ago | 70 comments

187.

Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla (reuters.com)

159 points by breve 4 days ago | 227 comments

188.

How to Synthesize a House Loop (loopmaster.xyz)

159 points by stagas 6 days ago | 56 comments

189.

Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant (newscientist.com)

158 points by doener 1 day ago | 31 comments

190.

Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development (phoronix.com)

156 points by LorenDB 4 days ago | 66 comments

191.

A first look at Django's new background tasks (roam.be)

155 points by roam 5 days ago | 42 comments

192.

John Giannandrea to retire from Apple (apple.com)

154 points by robbiet480 2 days ago | 366 comments

193.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)

152 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 344 comments

194.

Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science (beej.us)

152 points by intelkishan 1 day ago | 2 comments

195.

Hachi: An Image Search Engine (eagledot.xyz)

151 points by warangal 4 days ago | 14 comments

196.

Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows (healthisotherpeople.substack.com)

149 points by brandonb 9 hours ago | 145 comments

197.

You want microservices, but do you need them? (docker.com)

149 points by tsenturk 3 days ago | 144 comments

198.

LLVM-MOS – Clang LLVM fork targeting the 6502 (llvm-mos.org)

147 points by jdmoreira 3 days ago | 78 comments

199.

Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries (jaysbrickblog.com)

147 points by makeitdouble 3 days ago | 72 comments

200.

Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language" (robbyonrails.com)

143 points by robbyrussell 2 days ago | 171 comments

201.

Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016) (blog.plover.com)

143 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 71 comments

202.

DNS LOC Record (2014) (blog.cloudflare.com)

143 points by mikejeays 4 days ago | 36 comments

203.

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought (2024) [pdf] (gwern.net)

138 points by netfortius 5 days ago | 77 comments

204.

A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero (johndcook.com)

135 points by tzury 4 days ago | 63 comments

205.

Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027 (theverge.com)

134 points by DamnInteresting 2 days ago | 106 comments

206.

Program-of-Thought Prompting Outperforms Chain-of-Thought by 15% (2022) (arxiv.org)

134 points by mkagenius 3 days ago | 34 comments

207.

Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends (nytimes.com)