HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1111.

Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)

129 points by supo 2 months ago | 40 comments

1112.

After the AI Crash (potsandpansbyccg.com)

128 points by sysoleg 2 months ago | 236 comments

1113.

Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) (hillelwayne.com)

128 points by Thom2503 2 months ago | 117 comments

1114.

Better Auth is joining Vercel (better-auth.com)

128 points by sync 2 months ago | 89 comments

1115.

Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3 (zerofs.net)

128 points by Eikon 3 months ago | 52 comments

1116.

Making Postgres queues scale (dbos.dev)

128 points by KraftyOne 2 months ago | 34 comments

1117.

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok (brainless.swerdlow.dev)

128 points by benswerd 2 months ago | 26 comments

1118.

The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything (filfre.net)

128 points by doppp 3 months ago | 19 comments

1119.

Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)

128 points by deely3 3 months ago | 17 comments

1120.

When AI Costs More Than the Engineer (tomtunguz.com)

127 points by kiyanwang 2 months ago | 116 comments

1121.

Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre (ft.com)

127 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 months ago | 110 comments

1122.

MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)

127 points by Eldodi 2 months ago | 41 comments

1123.

Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history (tangled.org)

127 points by nerdypepper 2 months ago | 40 comments

1124.

I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago (extelligence.substack.com)

127 points by shpat 3 months ago | 17 comments

1125.

DConf 2026 in London (dconf.org)

126 points by teleforce 2 months ago | 70 comments

1126.

Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)

126 points by zdw 3 months ago | 49 comments

1127.

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] (spacex.com)

125 points by cryptoz 2 months ago | 204 comments

1128.

Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices (theguardian.com)

125 points by dilawar 2 months ago | 175 comments

1129.

Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future (arstechnica.com)

125 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | 134 comments

1130.

Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019) (acoup.blog)

125 points by jkly 2 months ago | 118 comments

1131.

Book prizes don't work how you think (rebeccamakkai.substack.com)

125 points by samclemens 2 months ago | 94 comments

1132.

Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp (letoverlambda.com)

125 points by fallat 2 months ago | 35 comments

1133.

The Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data into a Video Game (blog.exe.dev)

125 points by bryanmikaelian 2 months ago | 21 comments

1134.

Massively Parallel Postgres Backups (planetscale.com)

125 points by ksec 2 months ago | 16 comments

1135.

The Underhanded C Contest (underhanded-c.org)

125 points by ccabraldev 3 months ago | 13 comments

1136.

Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means (popsci.com)

124 points by speckx 2 months ago | 70 comments

1137.

1-Bit LLM in the Browser (huggingface.co)

124 points by simonebrunozzi 2 months ago | 48 comments

1138.

Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)

124 points by benn_88 2 months ago | 37 comments

1139.

U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123% (fred.stlouisfed.org)

123 points by johnbarron 2 months ago | 215 comments

1140.

So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ (dynomight.net)

123 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 110 comments