HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1501.

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

77 points by kaladan 2 weeks ago | 97 comments

1502.

Private prisons announce $1.4B in revenue as immigration detentions climb (npr.org)

77 points by speckx 3 weeks ago | 70 comments

1503.

Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms (reuters.com)

77 points by petethomas 1 week ago | 64 comments

1504.

US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged (independent.co.uk)

77 points by NordStreamYacht 3 weeks ago | 63 comments

1505.

The American sports plutocracy (derekthompson.org)

77 points by momentmaker 3 weeks ago | 62 comments

1506.

What is nueralese and why is it bad (lesswrong.com)

77 points by tristanMatthias 4 days ago | 59 comments

1507.

Dutch Train Map Simulator (spoorkaart.zaza.dev)

77 points by zazaalaza 3 weeks ago | 51 comments

1508.

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers (stoaexchange.com)

77 points by erenberke 4 weeks ago | 51 comments

1509.

It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025) (code.mendhak.com)

77 points by biscuits1 6 days ago | 48 comments

1510.

Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (pub.doub.ly)

77 points by knaught 2 weeks ago | 37 comments

1511.

Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations (smithsonianmag.com)

77 points by speckx 1 week ago | 32 comments

1512.

Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015) (wired.com)

77 points by EndXA 1 week ago | 29 comments

1513.

Toxic underground fires spreading at California landfills (newstribune.com)

77 points by tapper 4 weeks ago | 29 comments

1514.

White House Authorizes Private U.S. Companies to Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups (whitehouse.gov)

77 points by iamronaldo 3 weeks ago | 21 comments

1515.

Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011) (atlasobscura.com)

77 points by Bluestein 5 days ago | 15 comments

1516.

Fractal Jittered Voronoi Partitions (boristhebrave.com)

77 points by jp3141 1 week ago | 8 comments

1517.

Kids These Days (smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net)

76 points by speckx 1 week ago | 100 comments

1518.

70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic [video] (youtube.com)

76 points by johnbarron 4 weeks ago | 96 comments

1519.

Anthropic Claude and API service outages (status.claude.com)

76 points by vikrantrathore 2 weeks ago | 61 comments

1520.

Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest' (theguardian.com)

76 points by Jimmc414 5 days ago | 58 comments

1521.

What Is a Syslog Server? (blog.greencloudvps.com)

76 points by theanonymousone 2 weeks ago | 52 comments

1522.

Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded (bbc.com)

76 points by blondie9x 4 weeks ago | 44 comments

1523.

The oldest bar in every state (businessinsider.com)

76 points by NaOH 3 weeks ago | 38 comments

1524.

Play GTA Vice City in the Browser (quenq.com)

76 points by rzk 2 days ago | 34 comments

1525.

Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace (twitter.com)

76 points by theanonymousone 3 days ago | 27 comments

1526.

We Got Better at Keeping You Alive. Not at Keeping You Healthy (julienreszka.com)

76 points by julienreszka 4 weeks ago | 22 comments

1527.

Stopping the Unstoppable: When an unstoppable force meets a dashpot snubber (practical.engineering)