HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

17101.

Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux (ostechnix.com)

77 points by dxs on May 4, 2025 | 144 comments

17102.

The .a file is a relic: Why static archives were a bad idea all along (medium.com)

77 points by eyalitki 9 months ago | 132 comments

17103.

The quiet rebellion of a little life (caitlynrichardson.substack.com)

77 points by durmonski on Jan 20, 2025 | 126 comments

17104.

Computer science has one of the highest unemployment rates (newsweek.com)

77 points by zdgeier 11 months ago | 125 comments

17105.

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds (theguardian.com)

77 points by lentil_soup 5 months ago | 125 comments

17106.

Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing?

77 points by razoorka 7 months ago | 117 comments

17107.

Stockpile 72 hours of supplies in case of disaster or attack, EU tells citizens (theguardian.com)

77 points by speckx on Mar 26, 2025 | 113 comments

17108.

US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew (theregister.com)

77 points by rntn 7 months ago | 113 comments

17109.

Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI (windowslatest.com)

77 points by zdw 4 months ago | 110 comments

17110.

As Alaska's salmon plummet, scientists home in on the killer (science.org)

77 points by rbanffy 8 months ago | 107 comments

17111.

LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks (shkspr.mobi)

77 points by FromTheArchives 7 months ago | 105 comments

17112.

Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road (cnbc.com)

77 points by bobertdowney 6 months ago | 104 comments

17113.

Burnend alive inside a Tesla as rescuers fail to open the car's door (msn.com)

77 points by dsego 7 months ago | 103 comments

17114.

Quiet Quitting: Why Employees Are Demanding Fairness and Boundaries (forbes.com)

77 points by rustoo on Jan 26, 2025 | 97 comments

17115.

Apple Intelligence comes to Apple Vision Pro in April (apple.com)

77 points by meetpateltech on Feb 21, 2025 | 97 comments

17116.

Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video] (youtube.com)

77 points by kristjank on Mar 2, 2025 | 97 comments

17117.

US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms (ft.com)

77 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 10 months ago | 96 comments

17118.

Trapped in the dark for 35 hours – Red Sea dive-boat survivors tell of escapes (bbc.com)

77 points by nradov on Jan 15, 2025 | 94 comments

17119.

Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price (fortune.com)

77 points by toss1 9 months ago | 91 comments

17120.

Russia's Hidden War Debt (navigatingrussia.substack.com)

77 points by JumpCrisscross on Jan 12, 2025 | 87 comments

17121.

Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers (whitehouse.gov)

77 points by quantumwannabe 7 months ago | 85 comments

17122.

Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates (ifspp.substack.com)

77 points by haskellandchill 9 months ago | 84 comments

17123.

C++26: range support for std:optional (sandordargo.com)

77 points by birdculture 7 months ago | 84 comments

17124.

California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection (2020) (github.com)

77 points by networked 11 months ago | 83 comments

17125.

Mastodon Exit Interview (v.cx)

77 points by icy on Apr 11, 2025 | 82 comments

17126.

When Crocodiles Attack: The Ramree Island Massacre (2013) (atlasobscura.com)

77 points by lifeisstillgood on Mar 7, 2025 | 81 comments

17127.

Parallel AI agents are a game changer (morningcoffee.io)

77 points by shiroyasha 8 months ago | 81 comments

17128.

How Big Is VMS? (vmssoftware.com)

77 points by rbanffy on Apr 3, 2025 | 79 comments

17129.

When AI thinks it will lose, it sometimes cheats, study finds (time.com)

77 points by haltingproblem on Feb 22, 2025 | 78 comments

17130.

Hyprland – An independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (hypr.land)

77 points by AbuAssar 9 months ago | 78 comments