HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2641.

PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy (telegra.ph)

1004 points by ArcVRArthur on Dec 2, 2019 | 359 comments

2642.

A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet (quaxio.com)

1004 points by chetanhs on Jul 31, 2018 | 140 comments

2643.

Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration (mewo2.com)

1004 points by mewo2 on Aug 10, 2016 | 64 comments

2644.

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (twitter.com)

1003 points by tosh 2 weeks ago | 736 comments

2645.

It’s time to kill the web app (blog.plan99.net)

1003 points by raindev on Sep 23, 2017 | 702 comments

2646.

Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today (simonwillison.net)

1003 points by ulrischa on Sep 24, 2024 | 467 comments

2647.

Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model (github.com)

1003 points by divamgupta on Aug 6, 2025 | 361 comments

2648.

Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it (inputmag.com)

1003 points by kilotaras on Sep 15, 2021 | 291 comments

2649.

DeepSeek OCR (github.com)

1003 points by pierre 10 months ago | 244 comments

2650.

Postgres gets support for upsert (git.postgresql.org)

1003 points by anarazel on May 8, 2015 | 109 comments

2651.

Why can’t a bot tick the 'I'm not a robot' box? (quora.com)

1002 points by grzm on Feb 13, 2019 | 618 comments

2652.

Daniel Kahneman has died (washingtonpost.com)

1002 points by mrjaeger on Mar 27, 2024 | 309 comments

2653.

Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016) (cutle.fish)

1002 points by aphextron on Feb 15, 2020 | 281 comments

2654.

No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers (github.com)

1002 points by tambourine_man on Jul 20, 2023 | 258 comments

2655.

Moiré No More (getrevue.co)

1002 points by stock_toaster on Sep 26, 2021 | 112 comments

2656.

Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled (jayd.ml)

1001 points by jaydenmilne 9 months ago | 692 comments

2657.

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)

1001 points by jonkuipers on Jul 7, 2025 | 257 comments

2658.

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)

1001 points by gmays 2 months ago | 220 comments

2659.

Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world (protomaps.com)

1001 points by rcarmo on Oct 23, 2023 | 163 comments