HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

28771.

Feds arrest man for sharing DVD rip of Spider-Man movie with millions online (arstechnica.com)

30 points by ndsipa_pomu on Mar 8, 2025 | 61 comments

28772.

A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec (github.com)

30 points by keepamovin on Feb 20, 2025 | 60 comments

28773.

How Keeta processes 11M financial transactions per second with Spanner (cloud.google.com)

30 points by xescure 10 months ago | 60 comments

28774.

Boy Accidentally Orders 70k Lollipops on Amazon. Panic Ensues. (nytimes.com)

30 points by cliffly on May 9, 2025 | 58 comments

28775.

Show HN: Job Compass – AI agents that help you find jobs, not replace you (jobcompass.ai)

30 points by dloku on Jun 13, 2025 | 58 comments

28776.

The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894: predictions of 9 feet of manure in cities (en.wikipedia.org)

30 points by SweetSoftPillow 8 months ago | 55 comments

28777.

HDMI 2.2 will support 16K video at 60Hz (theverge.com)

30 points by mfiguiere 11 months ago | 52 comments

28778.

Leeches and the legitimizing of folk-medicine (press.asimov.com)

30 points by mailyk 10 months ago | 52 comments

28779.

Why do Stanford math professors still use chalk? (2021) (stanforddaily.com)

30 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | 52 comments

28780.

Like MS Excel, Pivot tables never die (rilldata.com)

30 points by articsputnik 7 months ago | 52 comments

28781.

Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities (aaronrosspowell.com)

30 points by NotInOurNames on Mar 19, 2025 | 51 comments

28782.

Linus Torvalds and the Supposedly "Garbage Code" (giodicanio.com)

30 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 51 comments

28783.

How to Inspect React Server Component Activity with Next.js and OpenTelemetry (dash0.com)

30 points by bripkens on Jan 23, 2025 | 50 comments

28784.

Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened (ciq.com)

30 points by LaSombra on Mar 19, 2025 | 48 comments

28785.

Ana Marie Cox on the Shaky Foundation of Substack as a Business (newsletter.anamariecox.com)

30 points by Bogdanp 10 months ago | 48 comments

28786.

Only About 40% of the Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science (astralcodexten.com)

30 points by impish9208 on Feb 14, 2025 | 47 comments

28787.

Fewer H-1B visas did not mean more employment for natives (2017) (nber.org)

30 points by tuan 8 months ago | 44 comments

28788.

On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs (arxiv.org)

30 points by bilsbie 5 months ago | 44 comments

28789.

Show HN: Wetlands – a lightweight Python library for managing Conda environments (arthursw.github.io)

30 points by arthursw on May 28, 2025 | 42 comments

28790.

Mark Zuckerberg Announces the "Beginning of the End" for Programmers (dailygalaxy.com)

30 points by xgstation on Feb 25, 2025 | 41 comments

28791.

News Is Blocked on Meta's Feeds in Canada. Here's What Fills the Void (nytimes.com)

30 points by bko on Apr 24, 2025 | 41 comments

28792.

Even in a Populist Moment, Democrats Are Split on the Problem of Corporate Power (thebignewsletter.com)

30 points by connor11528 6 months ago | 41 comments

28793.

Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised (blog.cloudflare.com)

30 points by cassianoleal on Mar 18, 2025 | 39 comments

28794.

Concrete spheres for energy storage; California plans a 9-meter diameter sphere (farmingdale-observer.com)

30 points by joe_the_user on May 10, 2025 | 39 comments

28795.

Trump orders immediate resumption of US nuclear weapons testing (france24.com)

30 points by hackthemack 7 months ago | 38 comments

28796.

Implementing the President's "DOGE" Workforce Optimization Initiative (whitehouse.gov)

30 points by delichon on Feb 12, 2025 | 37 comments

28797.

Italy drags Meta, X, LinkedIn into €1B+ VAT showdown: free sign‑ups now taxable? (reuters.com)

30 points by napolux 10 months ago | 37 comments

28798.

Google in 1999: Search engines escape the portal matrix (cybercultural.com)

30 points by speckx 10 months ago | 37 comments

28799.

Show HN: Send kind and aspirational words to a stranger who needs it (kindnesssender.com)

30 points by mketab 9 months ago | 37 comments

28800.

The giant basket case countries (noahpinion.blog)

30 points by paulpauper 7 months ago | 37 comments