HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1981.

TinyWall is a free, feature-rich, and lightweight firewall for Windows (github.com)

41 points by CHEF-KOCH on Apr 6, 2025 | 14 comments

1982.

Four Kinds of Optimisation (2023) (tratt.net)

41 points by alexharri on Apr 14, 2025 | 14 comments

1983.

Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers (jetgirl.art)

41 points by Tomte on Apr 17, 2025 | 12 comments

1984.

Trump's Tariffs Are Starting to Kill Jobs (reason.com)

41 points by emrah on Apr 19, 2025 | 10 comments

1985.

USB 2.0 is 25 years old today – the interface standard that changed the world (tomshardware.com)

41 points by thunderbong 11 months ago | 5 comments

1986.

Show HN: Autarkie – Instant grammar fuzzing using Rust macros (github.com)

41 points by r9295 11 months ago | 4 comments

1987.

Show HN: Logchef – Schema-agnostic log viewer for ClickHouse (github.com)

41 points by mr-karan 11 months ago | 3 comments

1988.

One Prompt Can Bypass Every Major LLM's Safeguards (forbes.com)

41 points by TechTalker22 on Apr 24, 2025 | 1 comments

1989.

Show HN: Open-Source Infra for a Single MCP Server to Search and Use 600 Tools (github.com)

41 points by ObnoxiousProxy 11 months ago | 0 comments

1990.

Ask HN: Why is my F500 employer okay with paying 5x to freelancers?

40 points by mettamage on Apr 19, 2025 | 89 comments

1991.

Lawmakers are skeptical of Zuckerberg's commitment to free speech (theverge.com)

40 points by speckx on Apr 10, 2025 | 63 comments

1992.

Americans Are Obsessed with Protein and It's Driving Nutrition Experts Nuts (wsj.com)

40 points by littlexsparkee on Apr 18, 2025 | 44 comments

1993.

Show HN: I Built ImgFiber-Better Image Optimizer. Free No Limits (imgfiber.com)

40 points by iambavith on Apr 6, 2025 | 39 comments

1994.

Trade, Tariffs, and Tech (stratechery.com)

40 points by swolpers on Apr 7, 2025 | 36 comments

1995.

Meritocracy doesn't exist and believing it does is bad for you (2019) (fastcompany.com)

40 points by labrador on Apr 1, 2025 | 34 comments

1996.

Louisiana prison board uses algorithms to determine eligility for parole (propublica.org)

40 points by anigbrowl on Apr 11, 2025 | 33 comments

1997.

LG TVs' integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions (arstechnica.com)

40 points by cf100clunk on Apr 16, 2025 | 30 comments

1998.

Tesla Stops Accepting Its Own Cars as Trade-Ins (jalopnik.com)

40 points by rbanffy on Apr 8, 2025 | 27 comments

1999.

To Do Nothing (shilin.ca)

40 points by true_pk on Apr 5, 2025 | 19 comments

2000.

Multipaint: Draw pictures with color limitations of 8-bit and 16-bit platforms (multipaint.kameli.net)

40 points by doener on Apr 15, 2025 | 19 comments

2001.

Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow (wired.com)

40 points by squircle on Apr 2, 2025 | 17 comments

2002.

'Why would he take such a risk?' My censor and me (theguardian.com)

40 points by calcifer on Apr 17, 2025 | 14 comments

2003.

Flat origami is Turing complete (2023) (arxiv.org)

40 points by PaulHoule on Apr 22, 2025 | 12 comments

2004.

Doom GPU Flame Graphs (brendangregg.com)

40 points by LorenDB 11 months ago | 12 comments

2005.

X Is Ditching DMs as News of Musk Messaging Women About Impregnating Them Breaks (latintimes.com)

40 points by CharlesW on Apr 17, 2025 | 11 comments

2006.

AI hype is drowning in slopaganda (ft.com)

40 points by Bluestein on Apr 17, 2025 | 11 comments

2007.

Using physics simulations to find targeting strategies in tenpin bowling (pubs.aip.org)

40 points by PaulHoule on Apr 22, 2025 | 11 comments

2008.

AES and ChaCha (phase.dev)

40 points by nimishk on Apr 14, 2025 | 10 comments

2009.

Switzerland's vinyl turntable roundabout: Unique road art (2019) (newlyswissed.com)

40 points by gnabgib on Apr 2, 2025 | 8 comments

2010.

Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived (nytimes.com)

40 points by tastyface on Apr 3, 2025 | 7 comments