HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2971.

The accidental history of 3000, 8080, and other port numbers (smarmelling.com)

18 points by smarmelling 4 weeks ago | 1 comments

2972.

US DOE will give $5.25B to upgrade the grid for AI datacenters (theregister.com)

18 points by meredithbloom 4 weeks ago | 1 comments

2973.

Elon Musk's dangerous grip on outer space (theverge.com)

18 points by doener 2 days ago | 0 comments

2974.

Noyb win: German DPA finds microtargeting by major political parties illegal (noyb.eu)

18 points by latexr 2 days ago | 0 comments

2975.

Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch (github.com)

18 points by znano 6 days ago | 0 comments

2976.

$50k First Letters Prize Awarded for PHerc 343 (scrollprize.substack.com)

18 points by dcminter 1 week ago | 0 comments

2977.

Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post (patreon.com)

18 points by sebg 2 weeks ago | 0 comments

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18 points by Refreeze5224 2 weeks ago | 0 comments

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18 points by sergiotapia 3 weeks ago | 0 comments

2980.

18 points by embedding-shape 3 weeks ago | 0 comments

2981.

India restores ancient water systems (stepwells) (bbc.com)

18 points by alentred 3 weeks ago | 0 comments

2982.

TikTok, X reportedly barring ads for documentary about Elon Musk (cbc.ca)

18 points by barbazoo 3 weeks ago | 0 comments

2983.

XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop (dell.com)

17 points by mudil 5 days ago | 53 comments

2984.

Why the AI future will be awesome (nullpaste.org)

17 points by samstress 2 weeks ago | 50 comments

2985.

Caffeine-like utility to keep you MacBook awake with its lid closed (github.com)

17 points by clash 2 days ago | 31 comments

2986.

US-Israeli browser startup valued at $6.4B (timesofisrael.com)

17 points by wow_Something 1 day ago | 30 comments

2987.

A 'ludicrously ugly' bridge is Exhibit A that Britain has lost its mojo (wsj.com)

17 points by nextos 1 week ago | 26 comments

2988.

Show HN: I got tired of btop not seeing my Mac's chip, so I built siltop (github.com)

17 points by cloaky233 1 week ago | 26 comments

2989.

Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham and surrogacy: Why isn't it causing a scandal in the US? (english.elpais.com)

17 points by Betelbuddy 3 weeks ago | 23 comments

2990.

AI Safety Is Not a Corporate Plot (astralcodexten.com)

17 points by jefftk 1 week ago | 21 comments

2991.

Are we sleepwalking into World War III? (ft.com)

17 points by JumpCrisscross 1 week ago | 19 comments

2992.

UnoDOS (github.com)

17 points by nicoloren 3 weeks ago | 18 comments

2993.

Open Source Games (opensourcegames.dev)

17 points by tokozedginidze 4 days ago | 17 comments

2994.

Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?

17 points by thatonehack 3 weeks ago | 17 comments

2995.

Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?

17 points by amina124 3 weeks ago | 15 comments

2996.

Open-source, cross-harness memory for AI agents

17 points by shakshukan 4 days ago | 14 comments

2997.

Why I'm Short the AI Buildout Even Though I'm Long Computers (unverifiablerewards.substack.com)

17 points by paulbaumgart 9 hours ago | 12 comments

2998.

Anthropic disclosed an $80.7B net loss for the first half of 2026 (wsj.com)

17 points by joennlae 4 days ago | 12 comments

2999.

FingerWorks iGesture Pad (2005) (uk.pcmag.com)

17 points by codeulike 1 week ago | 10 comments

3000.

The AI Bubble Explained (hughhowey.com)

17 points by Tomte 4 weeks ago | 9 comments