HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)

531 points by linolevan 20 hours ago | 167 comments

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AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)

470 points by weaksauce 18 hours ago | 308 comments

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Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC (harshanu.space)

316 points by unchar1 13 hours ago | 328 comments

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Show HN: Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)

276 points by tombh 7 hours ago | 115 comments

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More Mac malware from Google search (eclecticlight.co)

260 points by kristianp 21 hours ago | 181 comments

6.

GitHub Is Down (github.com)

251 points by albelfio 1 hour ago | 149 comments

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TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan (apnews.com)

216 points by dev_tty01 13 hours ago | 162 comments

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It's not you; GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)

214 points by MattIPv4 1 hour ago | 126 comments

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A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck (gtaforums.com)

213 points by HelloUsername 21 hours ago | 112 comments

10.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

211 points by david927 22 hours ago | 746 comments

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Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)

205 points by vinnyglennon 20 hours ago | 193 comments

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Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models (latent.space)

199 points by aaronng91 23 hours ago | 189 comments

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Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)

180 points by azhenley 12 hours ago | 141 comments

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Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT (theregister.com)

176 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 135 comments

15.

AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It (hbr.org)

166 points by swolpers 3 hours ago | 130 comments

16.

Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)

165 points by muggermuch 18 hours ago | 64 comments

17.

Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler (github.com)

164 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 40 comments

18.

Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens (nullcathedral.com)

159 points by nullcathedral 23 hours ago | 69 comments

19.

Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail (bbc.com)

157 points by tartoran 2 hours ago | 146 comments

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AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)

155 points by redman25 3 hours ago | 35 comments

21.

Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)

149 points by bobbiechen 19 hours ago | 36 comments

22.

Offpunk 3.0 (ploum.net)

145 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | 31 comments

23.

Stop generating, start thinking (localghost.dev)

144 points by frizlab 20 hours ago | 95 comments

24.

Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly (voidtools.com)

138 points by idw 20 hours ago | 55 comments

25.

The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (blog.svgames.pl)

131 points by pocksuppet 23 hours ago | 52 comments

26.

Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com)

127 points by tokyobreakfast 1 hour ago | 46 comments

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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)