HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)

506 points by Footkerchief 4 days ago | 414 comments

32.

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)

500 points by askvictor 6 days ago | 6 comments

33.

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)

498 points by dzdt 5 days ago | 278 comments

34.

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)

490 points by atan2 6 days ago | 252 comments

35.

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)

481 points by riadsila 6 days ago | 133 comments

36.

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)

480 points by speckx 5 days ago | 523 comments

37.

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)

460 points by petercooper 3 days ago | 433 comments

38.

Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (ft.com)

460 points by root-parent 16 hours ago | 427 comments

39.

FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com)

460 points by gyan 6 days ago | 97 comments

40.

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)

445 points by bhavansig 2 days ago | 130 comments

41.

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (blog.fogus.me)

442 points by lladnar 5 days ago | 524 comments

42.

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing (randsinrepose.com)

440 points by ExMachina73 5 days ago | 211 comments

43.

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)

439 points by aanet 5 days ago | 102 comments

44.

_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)

438 points by shaunpud 2 days ago | 165 comments

45.

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)

434 points by moonikakiss 5 days ago | 124 comments

46.

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)

433 points by 882542F3884314B 2 days ago | 427 comments

47.

The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America (effort.news)

429 points by slowin 6 hours ago | 314 comments

48.

Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com)

429 points by piotrgrabowski 3 days ago | 112 comments

49.

Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (blog.sydorets.com)

419 points by yusyd 4 days ago | 419 comments

50.

Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)

419 points by ike_usawa 1 day ago | 357 comments

51.

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (slayersclub.bethesda.net)

416 points by dsubburam 4 days ago | 208 comments

52.

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (discourse.nixos.org)

402 points by Meleagris 3 days ago | 215 comments

53.

All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (valleynewslive.com)

390 points by NDlurker 6 days ago | 247 comments

54.

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

387 points by thewebguyd 6 days ago | 283 comments

55.

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)

382 points by zhoutong 6 days ago | 108 comments

56.

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)

380 points by wglb 3 days ago | 82 comments

57.

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)

379 points by epestr 2 days ago | 106 comments

58.

U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)