HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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

597 points by bookmtn 13 hours ago | 311 comments

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The Real Luxuries In Life (feld.com)

480 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 226 comments

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

397 points by ExMachina73 10 hours ago | 60 comments

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

394 points by zplizzi 9 hours ago | 184 comments

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

359 points by bbatsell 16 hours ago | 188 comments

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

358 points by daniel_iversen 23 hours ago | 259 comments

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

354 points by chmaynard 12 hours ago | 142 comments

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

342 points by networked 20 hours ago | 99 comments

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

322 points by ijidak 20 hours ago | 366 comments

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

311 points by stevenwoo 19 hours ago | 99 comments

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

278 points by robin_reala 17 hours ago | 147 comments

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LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)

270 points by canjobear 13 hours ago | 198 comments

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

254 points by elvis70 16 hours ago | 93 comments

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GPT-6 Astra on robot arms (openai.robocurve.org)

180 points by Anon84 7 hours ago | 135 comments

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.gitignore Everything by Default (packagemain.tech)

172 points by der_gopher 20 hours ago | 166 comments

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

172 points by torutofu 20 hours ago | 32 comments

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

154 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 133 comments

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

136 points by paimapi 17 hours ago | 115 comments

19.

Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)

134 points by cl3misch 23 hours ago | 63 comments

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

112 points by ndsipa_pomu 20 hours ago | 101 comments

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Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners (arstechnica.com)

108 points by mkl 19 hours ago | 32 comments

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

103 points by stefan_ 13 hours ago | 18 comments

23.

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

100 points by zkehs 19 hours ago | 81 comments

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

95 points by rfarley04 21 hours ago | 12 comments

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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (isaraerospace.com)

93 points by mpweiher 2 hours ago | 6 comments

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Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke (vancouverisawesome.com)

88 points by anigbrowl 5 hours ago | 43 comments

27.

Site Is Closed on Sundays (v7.robweychert.com)

83 points by edent 3 hours ago | 90 comments

28.

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

68 points by Bluestein 23 hours ago | 91 comments

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

68 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 41 comments

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OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents (github.com)

66 points by okf_memory 11 hours ago | 20 comments