HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The Real Luxuries In Life (feld.com)

447 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 212 comments

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Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil (space.com)

385 points by bookmtn 6 hours ago | 201 comments

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AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (sylvainkalache.com)

368 points by sylvainkalache 18 hours ago | 320 comments

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Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop (reason.com)

349 points by bbatsell 9 hours ago | 181 comments

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Netherlands pulls gold out of the US (abc.net.au)

348 points by daniel_iversen 16 hours ago | 253 comments

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Git hosting that never leaves Europe (pushin.eu)

321 points by sevenseacat 20 hours ago | 149 comments

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Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says (pbs.org)

305 points by ijidak 13 hours ago | 350 comments

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The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025) (devquasar.com)

289 points by networked 13 hours ago | 87 comments

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How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret (propublica.org)

287 points by stevenwoo 11 hours ago | 93 comments

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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA (wikiworkersunited.org)

267 points by robin_reala 10 hours ago | 133 comments

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Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America? (bbc.com)

192 points by ranit 20 hours ago | 298 comments

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LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)

185 points by canjobear 6 hours ago | 153 comments

13.

Learn Programming with OCaml (usr.lmf.cnrs.fr)

185 points by elvis70 9 hours ago | 75 comments

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.gitignore Everything by Default (packagemain.tech)

160 points by der_gopher 13 hours ago | 157 comments

15.

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone (cloudinabottle.org)

144 points by zplizzi 2 hours ago | 48 comments

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Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory (sofiabelen.github.io)

137 points by torutofu 13 hours ago | 19 comments

17.

The revolt of the reader (bcantrill.dtrace.org)

134 points by chmaynard 4 hours ago | 45 comments

18.

How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025) (vcresearch.berkeley.edu)

132 points by paimapi 10 hours ago | 112 comments

19.

Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)

117 points by cl3misch 16 hours ago | 54 comments

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Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation (arstechnica.com)

111 points by ndsipa_pomu 13 hours ago | 99 comments

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South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones (wsj.com)

102 points by bookofjoe 5 hours ago | 83 comments

22.

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get (zachkehs.com)

99 points by zkehs 12 hours ago | 78 comments

23.

Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners (arstechnica.com)

99 points by mkl 12 hours ago | 31 comments

24.

Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video] (youtube.com)

89 points by stefan_ 6 hours ago | 18 comments

25.

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads (buttondown.com)

83 points by rfarley04 14 hours ago | 12 comments

26.

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)

78 points by ExMachina73 2 hours ago | 1 comments

27.

GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost (coderabbit.ai)

71 points by cebert 22 hours ago | 68 comments

28.

Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics (simonwillison.net)

68 points by Bluestein 16 hours ago | 89 comments

29.

Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014) (terrytao.wordpress.com)

61 points by gmays 6 hours ago | 24 comments

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America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums (techpolicy.press)

54 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | 61 comments