HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing (techdirt.com)

560 points by cf100clunk 5 days ago | 171 comments

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OpenRocket (openrocket.info)

560 points by zeristor 3 days ago | 99 comments

33.

Vite 8.0 Is Out (vite.dev)

554 points by kothariji 6 days ago | 202 comments

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Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer (nightingale.cafe)

549 points by rzzzzru 1 day ago | 155 comments

35.

The “small web” is bigger than you might think (kevinboone.me)

546 points by speckx 2 days ago | 229 comments

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How I write software with LLMs (stavros.io)

541 points by indigodaddy 3 days ago | 520 comments

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Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (pew.org)

538 points by matthest 10 hours ago | 634 comments

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ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did (davidoks.blog)

527 points by colinprince 6 days ago | 576 comments

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Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters (ft.com)

520 points by merksittich 5 days ago | 820 comments

40.

The American Healthcare Conundrum (github.com)

518 points by rexroad 2 days ago | 633 comments

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Why I love FreeBSD (it-notes.dragas.net)

518 points by enz 2 days ago | 262 comments

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Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc (engineering.fb.com)

512 points by hahahacorn 2 days ago | 240 comments

43.

US Job Market Visualizer (karpathy.ai)

498 points by andygcook 2 days ago | 353 comments

44.

Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track (fidget-spinner.github.io)

475 points by guidoiaquinti 1 day ago | 295 comments

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Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service (propublica.org)

462 points by hn_acker 20 hours ago | 211 comments

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Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system (github.com)

456 points by stefankuehnel 1 day ago | 245 comments

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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms (techcrunch.com)

454 points by jbegley 14 hours ago | 171 comments

48.

$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor (github.com)

447 points by ZacnyLos 4 days ago | 528 comments

49.

Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software (github.com)

440 points by avionics-guy 5 days ago | 152 comments

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US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says (marketscreener.com)

434 points by JumpCrisscross 6 days ago | 461 comments

51.

Give Django your time and money, not your tokens (better-simple.com)

434 points by dcreager 2 days ago | 171 comments

52.

FFmpeg 8.1 (ffmpeg.org)

428 points by gyan 1 day ago | 65 comments

53.

Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

427 points by svara 3 days ago | 612 comments

54.

Nasdaq's Shame (keubiko.substack.com)

421 points by imichael 3 days ago | 163 comments

55.

Digg is gone again (digg.com)

420 points by hammerbrostime 5 days ago | 475 comments

56.

My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025) (community.home-assistant.io)

420 points by Vaslo 2 days ago | 136 comments

57.

Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war (fortune.com)

415 points by speckx 6 days ago | 354 comments

58.

E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May (help.instagram.com)