HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Size of Life (neal.fun)

1381 points by eatonphil 9 hours ago | 175 comments

2.

Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental (lwn.net)

923 points by rascul 22 hours ago | 715 comments

3.

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux (heise.de)

518 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 8 hours ago | 297 comments

4.

Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon (the307.substack.com)

409 points by cramsession 10 hours ago | 354 comments

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In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution (e360.yale.edu)

402 points by Brajeshwar 10 hours ago | 420 comments

6.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight (karpathy.bearblog.dev)

293 points by __rito__ 8 hours ago | 146 comments

7.

DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says (finance.yahoo.com)

284 points by goodway 9 hours ago | 262 comments

8.

Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler" (eli.thegreenplace.net)

257 points by cui 19 hours ago | 39 comments

9.

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration (ankursethi.com)

222 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 94 comments

10.

I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop (dnhkng.github.io)

212 points by dnhkng 6 hours ago | 45 comments

11.

Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model (qwen.ai)

196 points by pretext 9 hours ago | 80 comments

12.

Super Mario 64 for the PS1 (github.com)

164 points by LaserDiscMan 6 hours ago | 54 comments

13.

NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months (airqualitynews.com)

160 points by pseudolus 22 hours ago | 201 comments

14.

Stop Breaking TLS (markround.com)

143 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 123 comments

15.

Is it a bubble? (oaktreecapital.com)

141 points by saigrandhi 8 hours ago | 198 comments

16.

'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay (dri.es)

128 points by geerlingguy 22 hours ago | 145 comments

17.

US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry (bbc.co.uk)

117 points by neversaydie 13 hours ago | 244 comments

18.

Apple Services Experiencing Outage (apple.com)

112 points by rock_artist 5 hours ago | 54 comments

19.

Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA (alpranalysis.com)

111 points by sodality2 8 hours ago | 68 comments

20.

New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care (swordhealth.com)

106 points by RicardoRei 12 hours ago | 147 comments

21.

Factor 0.101 now available (re.factorcode.org)

103 points by birdculture 14 hours ago | 12 comments

22.

McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash (bbc.co.uk)

101 points by mindracer 12 hours ago | 139 comments

23.

Terrain Diffusion: A Diffusion-Based Successor to Perlin Noise (arxiv.org)

95 points by kelseyfrog 7 hours ago | 21 comments

24.

Cloudflare error page generator (github.com)

94 points by sawirricardo 23 hours ago | 15 comments

25.

The future of Terraform CDK (github.com)

84 points by mfornasa 6 hours ago | 88 comments

26.

Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands (newyorker.com)

81 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 206 comments

27.

COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in (tritium.legal)

77 points by piker 10 hours ago | 33 comments

28.

EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws (eff.org)

76 points by iamnothere 5 hours ago | 31 comments

29.

RoboCrop: Teaching robots how to pick tomatoes (phys.org)

69 points by smurda 10 hours ago | 34 comments

30.

Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri (bbc.com)

64 points by jnord 3 hours ago | 4 comments