HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

41251.

Giant, Mysterious Spires Ruled the Earth Long Before Trees Did (smithsonianmag.com)

15 points by Brajeshwar on Jan 22, 2025 | 2 comments

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Unhappy with Win95 screensaver ex-pilot created his own, 25-yr business (pcgamer.com)

15 points by erickhill on Jan 31, 2025 | 2 comments

41253.

Better AI Is a Matter of Timing (spectrum.ieee.org)

15 points by headalgorithm on Feb 3, 2025 | 2 comments

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Go Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Package Exploits Go Module Proxy Caching For (socket.dev)

15 points by feross on Feb 4, 2025 | 2 comments

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Poll: AI Movies/TV in 10 Years

15 points by hathawsh on Feb 5, 2025 | 2 comments

41256.

US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as Insider Threat (wired.com)

15 points by jrochkind1 on Feb 8, 2025 | 2 comments

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New hack uses prompt injection to corrupt Gemini's long-term memory (arstechnica.com)

15 points by nativeit on Feb 13, 2025 | 2 comments

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"Largest data breach in US history": Three more lawsuits try to stop DOGE (arstechnica.com)

15 points by CharlesW on Feb 13, 2025 | 2 comments

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US Treasury watchdog begins audit of DOGE access to federal payment system (reuters.com)

15 points by jimnotgym on Feb 14, 2025 | 2 comments

41260.

There's a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing (theatlantic.com)

15 points by zfg on Feb 14, 2025 | 2 comments

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AWS India allegedly lost all data for one of their client (deccanherald.com)

15 points by maxloh on Feb 17, 2025 | 2 comments

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Japan's $1.5B bet on ultra-thin solar cells in challenge to China (ft.com)

15 points by bookofjoe on Feb 16, 2025 | 2 comments

41263.

How Is the Trump Administration Funding DOGE? (propublica.org)

15 points by colinprince on Feb 21, 2025 | 2 comments

41264.

Trump floats $5M 'gold card' as a route to US citizenship (reuters.com)

15 points by kamaraju on Feb 26, 2025 | 2 comments

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The Trump Admin Thinks Affordable Fiber Broadband Is 'Woke' (techdirt.com)

15 points by doener on Feb 28, 2025 | 2 comments

41266.

GSA Eliminates 18F (werd.io)

15 points by benwerd on Mar 1, 2025 | 2 comments

41267.

Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice (theguardian.com)

15 points by n1b0m on Mar 4, 2025 | 2 comments

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How Much Should Americans Worry About Elon Musk's Ketamine Use? (theatlantic.com)

15 points by b13n1u on Mar 5, 2025 | 2 comments

41269.

Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to keep $2B in foreign aid frozen (cbsnews.com)

15 points by zo1 on Mar 5, 2025 | 2 comments

41270.

Kitchen foil and Algerian markets: When your phone is stolen in London (londoncentric.media)

15 points by BerislavLopac on Mar 7, 2025 | 2 comments

41271.

Bill Gates on the iPod (2003) (twitter.com)

15 points by mfiguiere on Mar 8, 2025 | 2 comments

41272.

Show HN: I built a Figma plugin for quick data calculations (figma.com)

15 points by mrkochajkiewicz on Mar 10, 2025 | 2 comments

41273.

Hit by heatwave, Mumbai is ignoring a quick fix to cool off (scroll.in)

15 points by akbarnama on Mar 10, 2025 | 2 comments

41274.

Our Small ML Team Beat OpenAI and Anthropic in a Specialized Domain [pdf] (digits.com)

15 points by hanneshapke on Mar 11, 2025 | 2 comments

41275.

Dmap: A C hashmap that's stupid simple and surprisingly fast (github.com)

15 points by birdculture on Mar 11, 2025 | 2 comments

41276.

China's Legal Preparations for a Taiwan Invasion (warontherocks.com)

15 points by ilamont on Mar 13, 2025 | 2 comments

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SUSE Displays Enhanced Enterprise Linux at Susecon (thenewstack.io)

15 points by CrankyBear on Mar 14, 2025 | 2 comments

41278.

I cured my Aphantasia, a detailed documentation (old.reddit.com)

15 points by red369 on Mar 20, 2025 | 2 comments

41279.

Bonobo genius Kanzi, who could understand English and play Minecraft, dies at 44 (livescience.com)

15 points by amichail on Mar 22, 2025 | 2 comments

41280.

Notes on Coreutils in Rust (alexgaynor.net)

15 points by steveklabnik on Mar 23, 2025 | 2 comments