HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

17011.

Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware? (semiengineering.com)

87 points by stn8188 4 months ago | 115 comments

17012.

John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025' (bbc.com)

87 points by febed 6 months ago | 108 comments

17013.

New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis (santafe.edu)

87 points by Gooblebrai 6 months ago | 106 comments

17014.

The American Nations regions across North America (colinwoodard.com)

87 points by loughnane 9 months ago | 106 comments

17015.

Apple's Assault on Standards (infrequently.org)

87 points by freetonik 10 months ago | 105 comments

17016.

Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected) (euronews.com)

87 points by cs702 2 weeks ago | 104 comments

17017.

Poor Johnny still won't encrypt (bfswa.substack.com)

87 points by zdw 6 months ago | 104 comments

17018.

New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf] (nickbostrom.com)

87 points by uejfiweun 4 months ago | 102 comments

17019.

Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas" (anthropic.com)

87 points by Philpax 1 month ago | 99 comments

17020.

Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know (cnbc.com)

87 points by koolba 11 months ago | 98 comments

17021.

OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury (arstechnica.com)

87 points by koolba 2 months ago | 92 comments

17022.

Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays (ramp.com)

87 points by hnaccount_rng 10 months ago | 91 comments

17023.

Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage (9to5mac.com)

87 points by _____k 4 months ago | 88 comments

17024.

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble (fluxus.io)

87 points by dreamfactored 11 months ago | 86 comments

17025.

DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May (api-docs.deepseek.com)

87 points by nateb2022 2 months ago | 85 comments

17026.

There is no comfortable reading position (slate.com)

87 points by oumua_don17 5 months ago | 84 comments

17027.

Mary had schizophrenia, then suddenly didn't (newyorker.com)

87 points by fortran77 11 months ago | 84 comments

17028.

The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)

87 points by RickJWagner 1 month ago | 82 comments

17029.

As Rocks May Think (evjang.com)

87 points by modeless 5 months ago | 82 comments

17030.

Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland (dw.com)

87 points by lysace 5 months ago | 82 comments

17031.

AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year (newsguardtech.com)

87 points by hydrox24 9 months ago | 81 comments

17032.

Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (blisscast.wordpress.com)

87 points by keepamovin 2 months ago | 75 comments

17033.

We do not break userspace (2012) (lore.kernel.org)

87 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 75 comments

17034.

Claude Code is your customer (calebjohn.xyz)

87 points by mfbx9da4 5 months ago | 74 comments

17035.

The militarization of Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)

87 points by cadertots 11 months ago | 74 comments

17036.

GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100 (github.com)

87 points by adunk 1 month ago | 73 comments

17037.

Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market (bloomberg.com)