HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

The bottleneck might be the air in the room (blog.mikebowler.ca)

614 points by gslin 10 hours ago | 351 comments

2.

Espionage Against the European Parliament (citizenlab.ca)

400 points by ledoge 20 hours ago | 113 comments

3.

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (wafer.ai)

315 points by latchkey 18 hours ago | 128 comments

4.

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all (mistral.ai)

314 points by programLyrique 18 hours ago | 89 comments

5.

Maybe you should learn something (marginalia.nu)

313 points by tylerdane 13 hours ago | 150 comments

6.

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine (github.com)

253 points by theanonymousone 20 hours ago | 70 comments

7.

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research (news.exeter.ac.uk)

245 points by hhs 18 hours ago | 107 comments

8.

Holes (xkcd.com)

235 points by caminanteblanco 22 hours ago | 40 comments

9.

I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025) (inpreparation.substack.com)

220 points by theanonymousone 23 hours ago | 127 comments

10.

Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming (katamari64.se)

219 points by stock_toaster 17 hours ago | 309 comments

11.

Africans Are Turning to Starlink (economist.com)

198 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 222 comments

12.

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (peteris.rocks)

190 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 28 comments

13.

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV (github.com)

180 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 44 comments

14.

FreeBSD ate my RAM (crocidb.com)

177 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 75 comments

15.

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts (github.com)

160 points by chatmasta 2 hours ago | 61 comments

16.

International chess federation sanctions Kramnik (fide.com)

158 points by DarkContinent 23 hours ago | 95 comments

17.

Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island (danluu.com)

150 points by gm678 12 hours ago | 69 comments

18.

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview (epoch.ai)

145 points by cubefox 19 hours ago | 63 comments

19.

Applied Category Theory Course (2018) (math.ucr.edu)

137 points by measurablefunc 20 hours ago | 12 comments

20.

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe (quantamagazine.org)

131 points by jnord 7 hours ago | 74 comments

21.

Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)

131 points by azhenley 14 hours ago | 31 comments

22.

MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds (mrbruh.com)

127 points by MrBruh 15 hours ago | 52 comments

23.

Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines (apnews.com)

124 points by djoldman 22 hours ago | 120 comments

24.

David Beazley – Programming Courses (dabeaz.com)

124 points by gregsadetsky 11 hours ago | 33 comments

25.

The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam (worksinprogress.co)

121 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 29 comments

26.

Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)

116 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 34 comments

27.

Software, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)

112 points by faza 19 hours ago | 17 comments

28.

The circuit that lets your brain think and see (engineering.columbia.edu)

81 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 20 comments

29.

The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker (nooneshappy.com)

80 points by njrc 18 hours ago | 71 comments

30.

AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money (okaneland.com)

75 points by ermantrout 23 hours ago | 91 comments