HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

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

600 points by gslin 9 hours ago | 349 comments

2.

Espionage Against the European Parliament (citizenlab.ca)

400 points by ledoge 19 hours ago | 113 comments

3.

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (wafer.ai)

313 points by latchkey 18 hours ago | 127 comments

4.

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)

311 points by programLyrique 17 hours ago | 88 comments

5.

Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)

301 points by tylerdane 12 hours ago | 147 comments

6.

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine (github.com)

251 points by theanonymousone 20 hours ago | 70 comments

7.

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research (news.exeter.ac.uk)

244 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 107 comments

8.

Holes (xkcd.com)

234 points by caminanteblanco 22 hours ago | 39 comments

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I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025) (inpreparation.substack.com)

220 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 121 comments

10.

Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)

215 points by stock_toaster 17 hours ago | 300 comments

11.

Africans Are Turning to Starlink (economist.com)

195 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 220 comments

12.

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

179 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 24 comments

13.

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV (github.com)

177 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 43 comments

14.

FreeBSD ate my RAM (crocidb.com)

176 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 73 comments

15.

International chess federation sanctions Kramnik (fide.com)

158 points by DarkContinent 23 hours ago | 95 comments

16.

Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)

148 points by gm678 11 hours ago | 68 comments

17.

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview (epoch.ai)

142 points by cubefox 19 hours ago | 62 comments

18.

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

136 points by chatmasta 2 hours ago | 49 comments

19.

Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (math.ucr.edu)

135 points by measurablefunc 19 hours ago | 11 comments

20.

Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)

128 points by azhenley 13 hours ago | 31 comments

21.

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

126 points by jnord 7 hours ago | 74 comments

22.

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

126 points by MrBruh 15 hours ago | 52 comments

23.

Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)

123 points by djoldman 22 hours ago | 120 comments

24.

David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)

122 points by gregsadetsky 10 hours ago | 32 comments

25.

The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam (worksinprogress.co)

119 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 27 comments

26.

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

116 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 32 comments

27.

Software, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)

108 points by faza 18 hours ago | 17 comments

28.

The circuit that lets your brain think and see (engineering.columbia.edu)

81 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 20 comments

29.

The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker (nooneshappy.com)

79 points by njrc 18 hours ago | 69 comments

30.

AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money (okaneland.com)

75 points by ermantrout 23 hours ago | 91 comments