HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil (space.com)

678 points by bookmtn 18 hours ago | 365 comments

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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone (cloudinabottle.org)

523 points by zplizzi 15 hours ago | 260 comments

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Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)

518 points by ExMachina73 15 hours ago | 93 comments

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The Real Luxuries In Life (feld.com)

495 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 235 comments

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The revolt of the reader (bcantrill.dtrace.org)

489 points by chmaynard 17 hours ago | 227 comments

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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (isaraerospace.com)

386 points by mpweiher 8 hours ago | 108 comments

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Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop (reason.com)

367 points by bbatsell 22 hours ago | 195 comments

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LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)

340 points by canjobear 19 hours ago | 232 comments

9.

Learn Programming with OCaml (usr.lmf.cnrs.fr)

291 points by elvis70 22 hours ago | 123 comments

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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA (wikiworkersunited.org)

285 points by robin_reala 23 hours ago | 154 comments

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Intellectual Fly Is Open (2025) (bcantrill.dtrace.org)

232 points by cyb0rg0 3 hours ago | 130 comments

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GPT-6 Astra on robot arms (openai.robocurve.org)

214 points by Anon84 13 hours ago | 171 comments

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You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules (motherjones.com)

209 points by vrganj 6 hours ago | 148 comments

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Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death (edwest.co.uk)

171 points by shubhamjain 3 hours ago | 113 comments

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South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones (wsj.com)

168 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 148 comments

16.

A/I shuts down – Stay human (keepitfree.ai)

146 points by captainmuon 52 minutes ago | 43 comments

17.

How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025) (vcresearch.berkeley.edu)

138 points by paimapi 23 hours ago | 123 comments

18.

I Changed My License (bergie.iki.fi)

118 points by jllyhill 4 hours ago | 133 comments

19.

AI, Tools and Transformation (ben-evans.com)

112 points by firexcy 13 hours ago | 48 comments

20.

Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video] (youtube.com)

104 points by stefan_ 19 hours ago | 18 comments

21.

Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke (vancouverisawesome.com)

101 points by anigbrowl 11 hours ago | 47 comments

22.

Site Is Closed on Sundays (v7.robweychert.com)

94 points by edent 9 hours ago | 119 comments

23.

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded (vermaden.wordpress.com)

92 points by vermaden 13 hours ago | 9 comments

24.

Play GTA Vice City in the Browser (quenq.com)

75 points by rzk 7 hours ago | 34 comments

25.

OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents (github.com)

73 points by okf_memory 17 hours ago | 20 comments

26.

Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014) (terrytao.wordpress.com)

71 points by gmays 19 hours ago | 43 comments

27.

QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes (beige.party)

66 points by mraniki 2 hours ago | 8 comments

28.

The moral panic over data centres is foolish (economist.com)

61 points by andsoitis 20 hours ago | 183 comments

29.

America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums (techpolicy.press)

61 points by cdrnsf 17 hours ago | 72 comments

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'Old Person Smell' (theguardian.com)

57 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 28 comments