HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20821.

New study offers clues about what makes someone cool (nytimes.com)

57 points by _tk_ 10 months ago | 48 comments

20822.

Caffeine induces age-dependent brain complexity and criticality during sleep (nature.com)

57 points by gnabgib 11 months ago | 47 comments

20823.

Ask HN: How were graphics card drivers programmed back in the 90s?

57 points by ferguess_k 7 months ago | 47 comments

20824.

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: Science and Sacrifice in a City Under Siege (lrb.co.uk)

57 points by mitchbob on Jan 31, 2025 | 46 comments

20825.

The Darkest Timeline – how I see the 54% tariff impacting the game industry (stonemaiergames.com)

57 points by vyrotek on Apr 3, 2025 | 46 comments

20826.

How Kyoto, Japan Became the Loveliest Tourist-Trap (nymag.com)

57 points by trevortheblack 7 months ago | 46 comments

20827.

Social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to teens and children under 18 (commonsensemedia.org)

57 points by CharlesW on May 7, 2025 | 45 comments

20828.

This Is Not Your Last Job (v5.chriskrycho.com)

57 points by mooreds on Jan 6, 2025 | 44 comments

20829.

BP to slash green investment and ramp up gas and oil (bbc.com)

57 points by zfg on Feb 26, 2025 | 44 comments

20830.

Honest and Elitist Thoughts on Why Computers Were More Fun Before (datagubbe.se)

57 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 18, 2025 | 42 comments

20831.

Neuromorphic computing (lanl.gov)

57 points by LAsteNERD 11 months ago | 42 comments

20832.

Warp.dev Terminal – Overpriced, Buggy, and AI-Sabotaged My Code

57 points by MistermanX 9 months ago | 42 comments

20833.

Huawei launches first laptops using home-grown HarmonyOS (reuters.com)

57 points by overflowcat 11 months ago | 41 comments

20834.

Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world (pcgamer.com)

57 points by mrkramer 9 months ago | 41 comments

20835.

Sesame Scheme: Unintended Consequences of Allergen Food Labeling (choicesmagazine.org)

57 points by hilux 11 months ago | 40 comments

20836.

How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save? (cgdev.org)

57 points by gscott on Mar 18, 2025 | 39 comments

20837.

Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs (xda-developers.com)

57 points by ajdude on Apr 29, 2025 | 39 comments

20838.

Titles matter (joshcollinsworth.com)

57 points by speckx 8 months ago | 39 comments

20839.

Elon Musk Just Doesn't Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks (lithub.com)

57 points by mitchbob on Apr 30, 2025 | 38 comments

20840.

Mid-sized cities outperform major metros at turning economic growth into patents (governance.fyi)

57 points by guardianbob 10 months ago | 38 comments

20841.

Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game (midword.com)

57 points by minaguib 11 months ago | 37 comments

20842.

A job queue in two lines of JavaScript (jameshfisher.com)

57 points by chmaynard 10 months ago | 37 comments

20843.

2025 MacArthur Fellows (macfound.org)

57 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago | 37 comments

20844.

Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability (anderegg.ca)

57 points by ulrischa 7 months ago | 37 comments

20845.

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US (thenation.com)

57 points by mrtesthah 9 months ago | 36 comments

20846.

When Computer Magazines Were Everywhere (goto10retro.com)

57 points by ingve 8 months ago | 36 comments

20847.

Show HN: A PSX/DOS style 3D game written in Rust with a custom software renderer (totenarctanz.itch.io)