HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

721.

“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this” (github.com)

1543 points by realfuncode on Aug 22, 2015 | 525 comments

722.

Congrats Dropbox (blog.ycombinator.com)

1543 points by runesoerensen on Mar 23, 2018 | 264 comments

723.

I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115 (blog.jenniferdewalt.com)

1542 points by jenniferDewalt on Jul 24, 2013 | 344 comments

724.

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era (anthropic.com)

1541 points by Ryan5453 7 months ago | 837 comments

725.

New iPhone SE (apple.com)

1539 points by CoachRufus87 on Apr 15, 2020 | 1459 comments

726.

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights (jameshard.ing)

1539 points by jamesharding on Jun 27, 2025 | 197 comments

727.

Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative) (usebruno.com)

1538 points by ulrischa on Mar 9, 2024 | 399 comments

728.

Passport Photos (maxsiedentopf.com)

1538 points by gaws on Nov 6, 2024 | 230 comments

729.

Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair (uspirg.org)

1536 points by howard941 on Dec 16, 2019 | 429 comments

730.

Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game (airma.sh)

1535 points by fivesigma on Dec 10, 2017 | 304 comments

731.

FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up (9to5mac.com)

1534 points by uptown on Jan 28, 2019 | 429 comments

732.

NanoGPT (github.com)

1532 points by trekhleb on Jan 11, 2023 | 320 comments

733.

Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs (letsencrypt.org)

1532 points by okket on Aug 6, 2018 | 144 comments

734.

EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf] (statewatch.org)

1530 points by Daniel_sk on Nov 8, 2020 | 752 comments

735.

GPT-5.3-Codex (openai.com)

1530 points by meetpateltech 9 months ago | 605 comments

736.

Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (monicalent.com)

1529 points by dcu on Jun 7, 2019 | 511 comments

737.

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice (twitter.com)

1528 points by mjcl on May 20, 2024 | 1004 comments

738.

Fraud, so much fraud (science.org)

1528 points by nabla9 on Sep 27, 2024 | 828 comments

739.

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court (bbc.com)

1527 points by blackguardx 8 months ago | 1291 comments

740.

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin (bugs.chromium.org)

1527 points by Apylon777 on Jan 22, 2019 | 739 comments

741.

Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help (gist.github.com)

1527 points by throwaway839246 on May 4, 2020 | 714 comments

742.

Total Cookie Protection (blog.mozilla.org)

1527 points by todsacerdoti on Feb 23, 2021 | 427 comments

743.

They’re made out of weights (maxleiter.com)

1526 points by MaxLeiter 5 months ago | 706 comments

744.

But what if I want a faster horse? (rakhim.exotext.com)

1525 points by saeedesmaili on Apr 11, 2025 | 609 comments

745.

Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content (reclaimthenet.org)

1525 points by garyclarke27 on May 18, 2020 | 546 comments

746.

Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com)

1525 points by sidgarimella 1 week ago | 496 comments

747.

Why Lichess will always be free (lichess.org)

1524 points by hydroxideOH- on Apr 23, 2021 | 446 comments

748.

Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public (blog.cloudflare.com)

1524 points by jgrahamc on Oct 3, 2024 | 419 comments

749.

Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work (amazon.com)

1524 points by evmar on Nov 4, 2015 | 392 comments

750.

NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy (github.com)

1523 points by huseyinkeles on Oct 13, 2025 | 308 comments