HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances (aphyr.com)

282 points by aphyr 1 week ago | 169 comments

512.

A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform (webmatrices.com)

282 points by bishwasbh 3 days ago | 161 comments

513.

The Last Quiet Thing (terrygodier.com)

282 points by coinfused 2 weeks ago | 159 comments

514.

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI (cirruslabs.org)

282 points by seekdeep 1 week ago | 144 comments

515.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)

280 points by whoishiring 3 weeks ago | 477 comments

516.

The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts (akshaychugh.xyz)

280 points by akshay2603 2 weeks ago | 112 comments

517.

OpenSSL 4.0.0 (github.com)

280 points by petecooper 1 week ago | 86 comments

518.

Introspective Diffusion Language Models (introspective-diffusion.github.io)

280 points by zagwdt 1 week ago | 55 comments

519.

Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission (theguardian.com)

280 points by Philpax 3 weeks ago | 1 comments

520.

Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading (claude.nagdy.me)

279 points by taubek 3 weeks ago | 111 comments

521.

Parallel agents in Zed (zed.dev)

277 points by ajeetdsouza 1 day ago | 159 comments

522.

Jury says Meta knowingly harmed children for profit, awarding landmark verdict (latimes.com)

277 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 weeks ago | 2 comments

523.

We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year (reco.ai)

276 points by cjlm 4 weeks ago | 256 comments

524.

Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design (news.play.date)

276 points by Ivoah 1 week ago | 114 comments

525.

Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite (github.com)

275 points by russellthehippo 1 day ago | 68 comments

526.

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return (techcrunch.com)

274 points by Brajeshwar 3 days ago | 290 comments

527.

Tracy Kidder has died (nytimes.com)

274 points by ghc 4 weeks ago | 70 comments

528.

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs (aphyr.com)

273 points by aphyr 1 week ago | 178 comments

529.

Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk (npr.org)

273 points by nuke-web3 4 weeks ago | 81 comments

530.

Coding agents could make free software matter again (gjlondon.com)

272 points by rogueleaderr 3 weeks ago | 307 comments

531.

New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims (theguardian.com)

272 points by kmfrk 1 week ago | 75 comments

532.

Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)

271 points by zdw 1 week ago | 155 comments

533.

Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go (lisette.run)

271 points by jspdown 2 weeks ago | 153 comments

534.

Why are Flock employees watching our children? (substack.com)

271 points by enaaem 1 week ago | 50 comments

535.

Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin (thehistoryblog.com)

270 points by speckx 6 days ago | 127 comments

536.

Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell (github.com)

270 points by ishqdehlvi 3 weeks ago | 105 comments

537.

The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI (danielhomola.com)

269 points by dankai 4 weeks ago | 408 comments

538.

WebUSB Extension for Firefox (github.com)

268 points by tuananh 4 days ago | 249 comments

539.

SSH certificates: the better SSH experience (jpmens.net)

268 points by jandeboevrie 3 weeks ago | 128 comments

540.

Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

267 points by lxm 2 weeks ago | 250 comments