HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The bottleneck might be the air in the room (blog.mikebowler.ca)

738 points by gslin 16 hours ago | 419 comments

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Leaking YouTube creators' private videos (javoriuski.com)

430 points by javxfps 6 hours ago | 224 comments

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Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)

405 points by tylerdane 19 hours ago | 189 comments

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Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019) (peteris.rocks)

359 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 49 comments

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Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025) (software.annas-archive.gl)

273 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 146 comments

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Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com)

262 points by chatmasta 9 hours ago | 120 comments

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Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable (github.com)

262 points by asronline 3 hours ago | 116 comments

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Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)

240 points by stock_toaster 23 hours ago | 363 comments

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Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (tomshardware.com)

209 points by sensanaty 6 hours ago | 71 comments

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Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (quantamagazine.org)

181 points by jnord 14 hours ago | 116 comments

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Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)

160 points by gm678 18 hours ago | 78 comments

12.

Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)

141 points by azhenley 20 hours ago | 34 comments

13.

MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)

138 points by MrBruh 22 hours ago | 57 comments

14.

David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)

135 points by gregsadetsky 17 hours ago | 33 comments

15.

Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)

121 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 41 comments

16.

Verizon is About to Break our Watches (jefftk.com)

115 points by jefftk 5 hours ago | 51 comments

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No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth (eso.org)

105 points by Breadmaker 5 hours ago | 187 comments

18.

Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference (irishtimes.com)

105 points by 01-_- 4 hours ago | 37 comments

19.

Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System (ziglang.org)

103 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 21 comments

20.

AI has torched the market for junior programmers (seldo.com)

84 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 152 comments

21.

Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (euronews.com)

82 points by ohjeez 6 hours ago | 21 comments

22.

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc) (github.com)

80 points by msephton 8 hours ago | 16 comments

23.

Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)

77 points by adamraudonis 7 hours ago | 18 comments

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GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com)

70 points by maille 1 hour ago | 8 comments

25.

As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers (seattletimes.com)

69 points by petethomas 4 hours ago | 102 comments

26.

The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review (lispcookbook.github.io)

64 points by AlexeyBrin 11 hours ago | 0 comments

27.

2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results (hyperstitionai.com)

59 points by networked 17 hours ago | 139 comments

28.

What does privatization of the US Postal Service mean? (phenomenalworld.org)

58 points by htunnicliff 23 hours ago | 135 comments

29.

Better Models: Worse Tools (lucumr.pocoo.org)

58 points by leemoore 2 hours ago | 14 comments

30.

Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012) (vimeo.com)

54 points by jruohonen 6 hours ago | 30 comments