HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own (hugotunius.se)

2071 points by K0nserv on Aug 31, 2025 | 1202 comments

242.

GPT-5 (openai.com)

2063 points by rd on Aug 7, 2025 | 2482 comments

243.

Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional (aclu.org)

2063 points by coloneltcb on Nov 12, 2019 | 580 comments

244.

Today is The Day We Fight Back (thedaywefightback.org)

2061 points by brokenparser on Feb 11, 2014 | 258 comments

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Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. (ycombinator.com)

2060 points by dzlobin on Jan 20, 2012 | 665 comments

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Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] (cims.nyu.edu)

2054 points by procedurecall 2 months ago | 827 comments

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Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard (news.microsoft.com)

2051 points by totablebanjo on Jan 18, 2022 | 1353 comments

248.

Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?

2051 points by Uptrenda on Jul 21, 2022 | 753 comments

249.

Ubuntu on Windows (blog.dustinkirkland.com)

2049 points by bpierre on Mar 30, 2016 | 901 comments

250.

Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B (news.microsoft.com)

2049 points by whatok on Jun 13, 2016 | 833 comments

251.

Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities (habr.com)

2049 points by jayhoon on Sep 24, 2021 | 456 comments

252.

Meta lays off 11,000 people (about.fb.com)

2048 points by technics256 on Nov 9, 2022 | 1977 comments

253.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)

2046 points by x01 9 months ago | 2041 comments

254.

Tony Hoare has died (blog.computationalcomplexity.org)

2043 points by speckx 8 months ago | 268 comments

255.

Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)

2042 points by Philpax 1 month ago | 1216 comments

256.

macOS command-line tools you might not know about (saurabhs.org)

2039 points by Gadiguibou on Jun 27, 2023 | 442 comments

257.

MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? (sigpipe.macromates.com)

2031 points by jrk on May 22, 2020 | 998 comments

258.

Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service (blog.mozilla.org)

2031 points by dnlserrano on Mar 12, 2019 | 512 comments

259.

Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access (dl.acm.org)

2031 points by Kerrick 10 months ago | 239 comments

260.

Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT (engraved.blog)

2029 points by 317070 on Dec 3, 2022 | 908 comments

261.

“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL” (mail.python.org)

2024 points by randlet on Jul 12, 2018 | 721 comments

262.

Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked (twitter.com)

2023 points by benhurmarcel on Feb 8, 2021 | 1174 comments

263.

Firefox is on a slippery slope (drewdevault.com)

2023 points by ddevault on Dec 16, 2017 | 874 comments

264.

Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?

2022 points by lmueongoqx on Apr 7, 2021 | 1091 comments

265.

Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web (eff.org)

2019 points by mariusz79 on Nov 18, 2014 | 461 comments

266.

Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle (musclewiki.com)

2019 points by punkspider on Jan 21, 2021 | 329 comments

267.

My Youtube earnings (brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com)

2015 points by tpmx on Jan 2, 2023 | 403 comments

268.

Claude 4 (anthropic.com)

2013 points by meetpateltech on May 22, 2025 | 1169 comments

269.

I'm Tired of Talking to AI (orchidfiles.com)

2012 points by theorchid 5 months ago | 951 comments

270.

I regret my website redesign (mtlynch.io)

2011 points by mtlynch on Jul 21, 2022 | 749 comments