HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1621.

The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (2025) (intrepidkarthi.com)

77 points by intrepidkarthi 3 months ago | 98 comments

1622.

AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money (okaneland.com)

77 points by ermantrout 3 months ago | 94 comments

1623.

USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025 (expressnews.com)

77 points by gscott 2 months ago | 58 comments

1624.

No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes (sph.unc.edu)

77 points by geox 2 months ago | 56 comments

1625.

Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added (bribes.fyi)

77 points by neverenderr 2 months ago | 53 comments

1626.

The AI Marketing Backlash: Why 'AI-First' Brands Are Starting to Fall Flat (breef.com)

77 points by hasudon7171 2 months ago | 49 comments

1627.

Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone (lore.kernel.org)

77 points by aghuang 2 months ago | 47 comments

1628.

So, you want to make a game engine (2023) (lisyarus.github.io)

77 points by kugurerdem 2 months ago | 45 comments

1629.

How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari (dfarq.homeip.net)

77 points by giuliomagnifico 2 months ago | 35 comments

1630.

Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy (commondreams.org)

77 points by slowin 2 months ago | 34 comments

1631.

Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists (futurism.com)

77 points by HotGarbage 2 months ago | 33 comments

1632.

Show HN: Chiptune Radio (chiptune-radio.alephvoid.com)

77 points by bootbloopers 2 months ago | 17 comments

1633.

Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch (windowslatest.com)

77 points by GBiT 2 months ago | 15 comments

1634.

Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices (kendal.codeberg.page)

77 points by imkendal 3 months ago | 14 comments

1635.

Digital Deli, 1984 book by early PC hackers and enthusiasts (atariarchives.org)

77 points by achairapart 2 months ago | 12 comments

1636.

Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components (elenajs.com)

77 points by brianzelip 2 months ago | 9 comments

1637.

Apple Sues OpenAI, Alleging It Stole Trade Secrets (wsj.com)

77 points by m348e912 2 months ago | 5 comments

1638.

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack (bbc.com)

76 points by vinni2 2 months ago | 102 comments

1639.

EV Batteries Are Defying Expectations After Miles (wsj.com)

76 points by apparent 3 months ago | 93 comments

1640.

National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf] (fcc.gov)

76 points by ellingsworth 2 months ago | 73 comments

1641.

Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists' (forbes.com)

76 points by chaps 2 months ago | 42 comments

1642.

Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works (onepercentbrighter.com)

76 points by getnormality 2 months ago | 29 comments

1643.

MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games (github.com)

76 points by klaussilveira 2 months ago | 27 comments

1644.

Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers? (blog.apnic.net)

76 points by enz 2 months ago | 17 comments

1645.

Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds (modal.com)

76 points by thundergolfer 2 months ago | 15 comments

1646.

ChatControl 1.0 mass scanning is to be sneaked through via a 3rd vote next week (digitalcourage.social)

76 points by nickslaughter02 3 months ago | 4 comments

1647.

The Silurian Hypothesis (2020) (theparisreview.org)

75 points by andsoitis 2 months ago | 128 comments

1648.

What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen? (reprog.wordpress.com)

75 points by speckx 2 months ago | 127 comments

1649.

Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident (tucsonsentinel.com)

75 points by anigbrowl 2 months ago | 111 comments

1650.

Who manages the agents? (off-policy.com)

75 points by GavCo 2 months ago | 94 comments