HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil (space.com)

686 points by bookmtn 20 hours ago | 368 comments

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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone (cloudinabottle.org)

545 points by zplizzi 17 hours ago | 272 comments

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QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes (beige.party)

544 points by mraniki 4 hours ago | 92 comments

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Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)

525 points by ExMachina73 17 hours ago | 97 comments

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The revolt of the reader (bcantrill.dtrace.org)

504 points by chmaynard 19 hours ago | 239 comments

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The Real Luxuries In Life (feld.com)

496 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 235 comments

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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (isaraerospace.com)

425 points by mpweiher 9 hours ago | 129 comments

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LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)

350 points by canjobear 21 hours ago | 237 comments

9.

Your intellectual fly is open (2025) (bcantrill.dtrace.org)

294 points by cyb0rg0 5 hours ago | 161 comments

10.

A/I shuts down – Stay human (keepitfree.ai)

275 points by captainmuon 2 hours ago | 160 comments

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Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death (edwest.co.uk)

222 points by shubhamjain 5 hours ago | 150 comments

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GPT-6 Astra on robot arms (openai.robocurve.org)

219 points by Anon84 15 hours ago | 176 comments

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You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules (motherjones.com)

209 points by vrganj 7 hours ago | 156 comments

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South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones (wsj.com)

171 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 150 comments

15.

Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats (phoronix.com)

139 points by mdp2021 3 hours ago | 76 comments

16.

I Changed My License (bergie.iki.fi)

133 points by jllyhill 6 hours ago | 141 comments

17.

AI, Tools and Transformation (ben-evans.com)

127 points by firexcy 15 hours ago | 58 comments

18.

How I feel about AI (beza1e1.tuxen.de)

124 points by qznc 2 hours ago | 154 comments

19.

Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke (vancouverisawesome.com)

107 points by anigbrowl 13 hours ago | 50 comments

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Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video] (youtube.com)

104 points by stefan_ 20 hours ago | 18 comments

21.

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded (vermaden.wordpress.com)

99 points by vermaden 14 hours ago | 14 comments

22.

Site Is Closed on Sundays (v7.robweychert.com)

94 points by edent 10 hours ago | 120 comments

23.

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

75 points by rzk 9 hours ago | 34 comments

24.

OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents (github.com)

74 points by okf_memory 18 hours ago | 22 comments

25.

Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014) (terrytao.wordpress.com)

73 points by gmays 20 hours ago | 45 comments

26.

'Old Person Smell' (theguardian.com)

64 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 32 comments

27.

The moral panic over data centres is foolish (economist.com)

61 points by andsoitis 21 hours ago | 188 comments

28.

America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums (techpolicy.press)

61 points by cdrnsf 19 hours ago | 74 comments

29.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs (dreamstation.systems)

56 points by robinpie 19 hours ago | 61 comments

30.

Don't Use a gmail.com Address (crookedtimber.org)

55 points by jruohonen 5 hours ago | 36 comments