HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12151.

Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died (typo.social)

121 points by laqq3 8 months ago | 9 comments

12152.

Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2 (gautiersblog.blogspot.com)

121 points by ajdude 8 months ago | 8 comments

12153.

The Geometry Behind Normal Maps (shlom.dev)

121 points by betamark 5 months ago | 5 comments

12154.

A Rust shaped hole (mnvr.in)

120 points by vishnumohandas 9 months ago | 314 comments

12155.

Hiroshima (1946) (newyorker.com)

120 points by pseudolus 9 months ago | 266 comments

12156.

The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy (ceodinner.substack.com)

120 points by LordAtlas 4 months ago | 208 comments

12157.

Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off (ft.com)

120 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 months ago | 190 comments

12158.

Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch (arstechnica.com)

120 points by moelf on Apr 2, 2025 | 172 comments

12159.

Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)

120 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 152 comments

12160.

Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management (businessinsider.com)

120 points by cl42 8 months ago | 146 comments

12161.

Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims (macrumors.com)

120 points by tosh 11 months ago | 138 comments

12162.

The Era of the Business Idiot (wheresyoured.at)

120 points by dvt 11 months ago | 127 comments

12163.

E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper (buttondown.com)

120 points by rfarley04 11 months ago | 124 comments

12164.

NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference (discourse.nixos.org)

120 points by TheFreim 7 months ago | 121 comments

12165.

Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf] (drops.dagstuhl.de)

120 points by pulisse 11 months ago | 117 comments

12166.

Semicolons bring the drama; that's why I love them (ft.com)

120 points by bishopsmother 11 months ago | 116 comments

12167.

Malaysia is betting on data centers to boost its economy (apnews.com)

120 points by rntn on Feb 19, 2025 | 110 comments

12168.

Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices? (optimizedbyotto.com)

120 points by ottoke 6 months ago | 110 comments

12169.

Antislop: A framework for eliminating repetitive patterns in language models (arxiv.org)

120 points by Der_Einzige 6 months ago | 110 comments

12170.

Trump designates anti-fascist Antifa movement as a terrorist organization (reuters.com)

120 points by hypeatei 7 months ago | 107 comments

12171.

LeetCode but You Can Force People to Code in Light Mode (beatcode.dev)

120 points by weebao on Feb 20, 2025 | 105 comments

12172.

OpenAI's hunger for computing power (wsj.com)

120 points by doener 7 months ago | 105 comments

12173.

French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution (lemonde.fr)

120 points by rawgabbit 9 months ago | 104 comments

12174.

Talk Python in Production (talkpython.fm)

120 points by mikeckennedy 6 months ago | 104 comments

12175.

Amazon's killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books (theverge.com)

120 points by marban on Feb 15, 2025 | 103 comments

12176.

Don't sell space in your homelab (2023) (grumpy.systems)

120 points by Wingy on Apr 13, 2025 | 101 comments

12177.

Learning Is Slower Than You Think (nisheethvishnoi.substack.com)

120 points by almost-exactly 9 months ago | 101 comments

12178.

Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering (alexp.pl)

120 points by alexp on Feb 25, 2025 | 97 comments

12179.

A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it (tomkranz.com)

120 points by prestelpirate 8 months ago | 95 comments

12180.

The Whispering Earring (croissanthology.com)

120 points by ZeljkoS 8 months ago | 91 comments