HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1591.

Trump Administration Will Freeze $2B After Harvard Refuses Demands (nytimes.com)

59 points by jbegley on Apr 15, 2025 | 10 comments

1592.

Treasury's OCC Says Hackers Had Access to 150k Emails (securityweek.com)

59 points by LinuxBender on Apr 9, 2025 | 5 comments

1593.

DMCA Notices Can Silence Critics but Complaints by the Public Put All at Risk (torrentfreak.com)

59 points by hn_acker 11 months ago | 3 comments

1594.

Eight or more drinks per week linked to brain lesions (aan.com)

58 points by ivewonyoung on Apr 11, 2025 | 79 comments

1595.

Small Town America vs. Big Box Stores (strongtowns.org)

58 points by spking on Apr 9, 2025 | 73 comments

1596.

Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites in bid to take on Starlink (cnbc.com)

58 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 69 comments

1597.

Beer on Board in the Age of Sail (2017) (blog.library.si.edu)

58 points by thunderbong on Apr 23, 2025 | 68 comments

1598.

It would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own (substack.com)

58 points by sebg on Apr 7, 2025 | 45 comments

1599.

Handheld detector for all types of ionizing radiation improves radiation safety (phys.org)

58 points by PaulHoule on Apr 20, 2025 | 38 comments

1600.

How I install personal versions of programs on Unix (utcc.utoronto.ca)

58 points by ingve on Apr 12, 2025 | 33 comments

1601.

A tuition-free school created by Zuckerberg and Chan will shutter next year (cnn.com)

58 points by jszymborski 11 months ago | 32 comments

1602.

The Solid-State Shift: Reinventing the Transformer for Modern Grids (powermag.com)

58 points by JumpCrisscross on Apr 12, 2025 | 24 comments

1603.

Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs (world-playground-deceit.net)

58 points by BoingBoomTschak on Apr 21, 2025 | 17 comments

1604.

Can We Trust CVE? (opensourcesecurity.io)

58 points by gpi on Apr 19, 2025 | 17 comments

1605.

Finding Things the Government Might Know About You (nytimes.com)

58 points by anticorporate 11 months ago | 15 comments

1606.

Global Health Threat: Antibiotic-Resistant "Superbug" Spreading in Malaysia (scitechdaily.com)

58 points by Brajeshwar on Apr 7, 2025 | 13 comments

1607.

Show HN: Benchi – A benchmarking tool written in Go (github.com)

58 points by lmazgon on Apr 3, 2025 | 7 comments

1608.

X-Ray Defence (lichess.org)

58 points by fzliu on Apr 17, 2025 | 7 comments

1609.

The Dumbest Economic Policy in Modern History (theatlantic.com)

58 points by xnx on Apr 9, 2025 | 5 comments

1610.

Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says (arstechnica.com)

58 points by nativeit 11 months ago | 5 comments

1611.

ELD: A new open-source embedded linker tool for embedded systems (qualcomm.com)

58 points by quic_bcain on Apr 10, 2025 | 2 comments

1612.

Elon Musk is wrong about GDP (timharford.com)

57 points by simonebrunozzi 11 months ago | 112 comments

1613.

Drag racers are ditching superchargers for scuba-style tanks and compressed air (thedrive.com)

57 points by PaulHoule on Apr 3, 2025 | 93 comments

1614.

Variable duty cycle square waves with the Web Audio API (danblack.co)

57 points by iamdan on Apr 7, 2025 | 64 comments

1615.

Hyundai to buy 'thousands' of Boston Dynamics robots (therobotreport.com)

57 points by ivewonyoung on Apr 6, 2025 | 64 comments

1616.

The Darkest Timeline – how I see the 54% tariff impacting the game industry (stonemaiergames.com)

57 points by vyrotek on Apr 3, 2025 | 46 comments

1617.

Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before (datagubbe.se)

57 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 18, 2025 | 42 comments

1618.

Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs (xda-developers.com)

57 points by ajdude 11 months ago | 39 comments

1619.

Elon Musk Just Doesn't Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks (lithub.com)

57 points by mitchbob 11 months ago | 38 comments

1620.

Last Windows update creates C:\inetpub (infosec.exchange)

57 points by N19PEDL2 on Apr 9, 2025 | 31 comments