HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The Real Luxuries In Life (feld.com)

445 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 210 comments

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

375 points by bookmtn 5 hours ago | 197 comments

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AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (sylvainkalache.com)

367 points by sylvainkalache 18 hours ago | 320 comments

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Netherlands pulls gold out of the US (abc.net.au)

347 points by daniel_iversen 15 hours ago | 253 comments

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

346 points by bbatsell 9 hours ago | 181 comments

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Git hosting that never leaves Europe (pushin.eu)

321 points by sevenseacat 19 hours ago | 149 comments

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Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says (pbs.org)

304 points by ijidak 13 hours ago | 349 comments

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How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret (propublica.org)

286 points by stevenwoo 11 hours ago | 91 comments

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The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) (devquasar.com)

280 points by networked 12 hours ago | 85 comments

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

265 points by robin_reala 9 hours ago | 128 comments

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Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America? (bbc.com)

191 points by ranit 20 hours ago | 298 comments

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LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)

181 points by canjobear 6 hours ago | 152 comments

13.

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

181 points by elvis70 9 hours ago | 74 comments

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.gitignore Everything by Default (packagemain.tech)

158 points by der_gopher 12 hours ago | 157 comments

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Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory (sofiabelen.github.io)

134 points by torutofu 12 hours ago | 19 comments

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

131 points by paimapi 9 hours ago | 108 comments

17.

Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)

115 points by cl3misch 15 hours ago | 54 comments

18.

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

114 points by chmaynard 4 hours ago | 33 comments

19.

Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation (arstechnica.com)

111 points by ndsipa_pomu 12 hours ago | 99 comments

20.

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

108 points by zplizzi 2 hours ago | 38 comments

21.

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get (zachkehs.com)

99 points by zkehs 11 hours ago | 78 comments

22.

Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners (arstechnica.com)

99 points by mkl 12 hours ago | 31 comments

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

90 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 74 comments

24.

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

87 points by stefan_ 5 hours ago | 18 comments

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A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads (buttondown.com)

79 points by rfarley04 13 hours ago | 10 comments

26.

GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost (coderabbit.ai)

71 points by cebert 22 hours ago | 68 comments

27.

Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)

67 points by Bluestein 15 hours ago | 89 comments

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