HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) (prog21.dadgum.com)

509 points by downbad_ 6 days ago | 158 comments

32.

Laws of Software Engineering (lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)

500 points by milanm081 5 hours ago | 259 comments

33.

Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs (darkbloom.dev)

500 points by twapi 5 days ago | 251 comments

34.

Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com)

493 points by binsquare 3 days ago | 147 comments

35.

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)

488 points by gnabgib 2 days ago | 426 comments

36.

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist (axios.com)

468 points by Palmik 1 day ago | 333 comments

37.

State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)

467 points by f_r_d 3 days ago | 150 comments

38.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (simonwillison.net)

462 points by simonw 4 days ago | 97 comments

39.

Cloudflare Email Service (blog.cloudflare.com)

461 points by jilles 5 days ago | 204 comments

40.

All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)

456 points by cybermango 3 days ago | 266 comments

41.

Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game (kotaku.com)

448 points by speckx 5 days ago | 252 comments

42.

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL (opensource.posit.co)

442 points by thomasp85 1 day ago | 82 comments

43.

Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight (torrentfreak.com)

441 points by askl 6 days ago | 451 comments

44.

Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) (super-memory.com)

440 points by downbad_ 6 days ago | 220 comments

45.

Sauna effect on heart rate (tryterra.co)

432 points by kyriakosel 1 day ago | 227 comments

46.

The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)

430 points by NelsonMinar 3 days ago | 113 comments

47.

Backpacks got worse on purpose (worseonpurpose.com)

428 points by 113 6 days ago | 384 comments

48.

Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people (ashley.rolfmore.com)

422 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 273 comments

49.

NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)

420 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 189 comments

50.

Michael Rabin has died (en.wikipedia.org)

412 points by tkhattra 5 days ago | 88 comments

51.

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs (joanwestenberg.com)

404 points by devonnull 4 days ago | 282 comments

52.

US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)

399 points by ronsor 4 days ago | 333 comments

53.

€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs (discuss.ai.google.dev)

398 points by zanbezi 5 days ago | 292 comments

54.

Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com)

398 points by Tiberium 2 days ago | 145 comments

55.

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account (daedal.io)

397 points by pabs3 5 days ago | 225 comments

56.

Cal.com is going closed source (cal.com)

391 points by Benjamin_Dobell 6 days ago | 316 comments

57.

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again (docs.openclaw.ai)

385 points by jmsflknr 13 hours ago | 222 comments

58.

Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)

383 points by cdrnsf 2 days ago | 242 comments

59.

Vercel says internal systems hit in breach (decipher.sc)

378 points by whiteyford 2 days ago | 2 comments

60.

AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing (stephvee.ca)

371 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 393 comments