HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1741.

Ask HN: Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind

51 points by figassis on Apr 14, 2025 | 40 comments

1742.

Hyperinflation Heralded the Fall of German Democracy (2023) (smithsonianmag.com)

51 points by joebig on Apr 4, 2025 | 38 comments

1743.

US revokes all South Sudan visas over failure to repatriate citizens (reuters.com)

51 points by gpi on Apr 6, 2025 | 37 comments

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Shame and Revolution: Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism (aeon.co)

51 points by infinate on Apr 14, 2025 | 35 comments

1745.

UN says scam call centers are epidemic and expanding globally (theregister.com)

51 points by jnord on Apr 23, 2025 | 34 comments

1746.

Configuration Complexity Clock (2012) (mikehadlow.blogspot.com)

51 points by jelder on Apr 2, 2025 | 15 comments

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FTC's 'Tech Censorship' Investigation Is Censoring Comments About 'Censorship' (techdirt.com)

51 points by hn_acker 11 months ago | 9 comments

1748.

Dwarf Fortress Coming to Steam Changed Everything [video] (youtube.com)

51 points by danso on Apr 4, 2025 | 8 comments

1749.

Show HN: Git Game Show – Multiplayer Game in Your Repo (justinpaulson.github.io)

51 points by justinpaulson on Apr 9, 2025 | 5 comments

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More details for London's new Roman Basilica museum revealed (ianvisits.co.uk)

51 points by zeristor on Apr 18, 2025 | 4 comments

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51 points by Snapshrink on Apr 21, 2025 | 0 comments

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Bluesky's Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media (newyorker.com)

50 points by adrianhon on Apr 7, 2025 | 105 comments

1753.

I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won (mikekasberg.com)

50 points by LorenDB on Apr 14, 2025 | 96 comments

1754.

A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024) (electricalsafetyworkshop.org)

50 points by bookofjoe on Apr 22, 2025 | 60 comments

1755.

Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon (phys.org)

50 points by pseudolus on Apr 4, 2025 | 58 comments

1756.

A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment (simonwillison.net)

50 points by edward 11 months ago | 50 comments

1757.

„Fluoride reduces IQ" report needs to be retracted (twitter.com)

50 points by MrBuddyCasino on Apr 9, 2025 | 24 comments

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US to go ahead with imposition of 104% tariff China from Wednesday (theguardian.com)

50 points by Philpax on Apr 8, 2025 | 16 comments

1759.

OAuth's Role in MCP Security (defensiblesystems.substack.com)

50 points by mooreds on Apr 20, 2025 | 11 comments

1760.

Levitating Bugs with Sound Could Transform Scientific Photography (petapixel.com)

50 points by PaulHoule on Apr 8, 2025 | 10 comments

1761.

Show HN: A fast, minimal and offline-friendly web playground (scriptpad.dev)

50 points by evenoroddman on Apr 6, 2025 | 9 comments

1762.

"Hands off working COBOL code" –protest sign in NYC (old.reddit.com)

50 points by davidmurphy on Apr 6, 2025 | 8 comments

1763.

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say (washingtonpost.com)

50 points by howard941 on Apr 1, 2025 | 7 comments

1764.

Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff (bloomberg.com)

50 points by melling on Apr 23, 2025 | 5 comments

1765.

Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you (noyb.eu)

50 points by robin_reala 11 months ago | 3 comments

1766.

Organ Trafficking: How Germans Buy New Kidneys in Kenya (spiegel.de)

50 points by Anon84 on Apr 15, 2025 | 2 comments

1767.

DDoS Mitigation Leak (kentik.com)

50 points by oavioklein on Apr 8, 2025 | 1 comments

1768.

BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets (plugsocketmuseum.nl)

49 points by susam on Apr 10, 2025 | 161 comments

1769.

Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration (peterwildeford.substack.com)

49 points by nopinsight on Apr 22, 2025 | 74 comments

1770.

Russian Propaganda Has Now Infected Western AI Chatbots – New Study (forbes.com)

49 points by nabla9 on Apr 19, 2025 | 55 comments