HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Cloudflare was down (cloudflare.com)

795 points by mektrik 7 hours ago | 501 comments

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Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros (about.netflix.com)

736 points by meetpateltech 4 hours ago | 600 comments

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Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? (reason.com)

706 points by delichon 22 hours ago | 920 comments

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Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond (netflixtechblog.com)

446 points by CharlesW 16 hours ago | 233 comments

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Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig (sinclairtarget.com)

393 points by yurivish 18 hours ago | 489 comments

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The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law (somo.nl)

390 points by saubeidl 6 hours ago | 229 comments

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The RAM shortage comes for us all (jeffgeerling.com)

363 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 380 comments

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BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive (evclinic.eu)

353 points by mikelabatt 15 hours ago | 360 comments

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Django 6 (docs.djangoproject.com)

345 points by wilhelmklopp 19 hours ago | 163 comments

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Multivox: Volumetric Display (github.com)

309 points by jk_tech 23 hours ago | 45 comments

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We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months (aitradearena.com)

307 points by cheeseblubber 17 hours ago | 255 comments

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Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

304 points by bakigul 7 hours ago | 160 comments

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Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks (lyra.horse)

275 points by spartanatreyu 16 hours ago | 40 comments

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A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat (bbc.com)

241 points by toss1 19 hours ago | 198 comments

15.

UniFi 5G (blog.ui.com)

240 points by janandonly 9 hours ago | 196 comments

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State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' (npr.org)

211 points by seattle_spring 11 hours ago | 211 comments

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I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years (resobscura.substack.com)

203 points by benbreen 21 hours ago | 33 comments

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Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional (apnews.com)

197 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 53 comments

19.

State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)

194 points by anjneymidha 18 hours ago | 91 comments

20.

Cloudflare Is Down (cloudflare.com)

161 points by wonderfuly 7 hours ago | 55 comments

21.

NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards (blog.neurips.cc)

145 points by ivansavz 15 hours ago | 24 comments

22.

Most technical problems are people problems (blog.joeschrag.com)

143 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 133 comments

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CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL (github.com)

121 points by dzign 19 hours ago | 14 comments

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Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality (jamanetwork.com)

118 points by bpierre 1 hour ago | 82 comments

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Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication (lemonde.fr)

116 points by isolli 2 hours ago | 90 comments

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CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (techdirt.com)

113 points by alsetmusic 20 hours ago | 58 comments

27.

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 (blog.cloudflare.com)

111 points by meetpateltech 53 minutes ago | 77 comments

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StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels (github.com)