HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3451.

NSA employees offered deferred resignation, early retirement (therecord.media)

15 points by namenumber on Feb 5, 2025 | 7 comments

3452.

Malicious NPM package targets prettier library (sourcecodered.com)

15 points by 6mile on Feb 6, 2025 | 7 comments

3453.

Elon Musk and Spiky Intelligence (natesilver.net)

15 points by robinhouston on Feb 26, 2025 | 7 comments

3454.

Instagram Reels flooded with violent videos before Meta says it fixed error (theguardian.com)

15 points by c420 on Feb 27, 2025 | 7 comments

3455.

World first: Plane hooks a skydiver out of the air (newatlas.com)

15 points by pseudolus on Feb 9, 2025 | 6 comments

3456.

Show HN: Generate Notion-style line avatars using AI (open source) (lineavatars.com)

15 points by gregives on Feb 11, 2025 | 6 comments

3457.

Russian drone detonates on Chornobyl nuclear plant containment shell (theguardian.com)

15 points by howard941 on Feb 14, 2025 | 6 comments

3458.

VSCode extensions with 9M installs pulled over security risks (bleepingcomputer.com)

15 points by protik49 on Feb 28, 2025 | 6 comments

3459.

Texas Tempts Meta (bloomberg.com)

15 points by feross on Feb 3, 2025 | 5 comments

3460.

FSF to auction off original GNU drawings, RMS award, and historic tech (fsf.org)

15 points by abstractbeliefs on Feb 4, 2025 | 5 comments

3461.

Netanyahu gifts Trump a golden pager during US visit (bbc.com)

15 points by nico on Feb 7, 2025 | 5 comments

3462.

Multiple Security and Privacy Flaws in DeepSeek iOS Mobile App (nowsecure.com)

15 points by ahoog42 on Feb 6, 2025 | 5 comments

3463.

Bolt: Bootstrap long chain-of-thought in LLMs without distillation [pdf] (arxiv.org)

15 points by TaurenHunter on Feb 8, 2025 | 5 comments

3464.

The Investor Betting on People in Their 50s (wsj.com)

15 points by mlhpdx on Feb 9, 2025 | 5 comments

3465.

Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4B bid for control of OpenAI, WSJ reports (ca.finance.yahoo.com)

15 points by abrichr on Feb 10, 2025 | 5 comments

3466.

Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as National Intelligence Director (usatoday.com)

15 points by basementcat on Feb 12, 2025 | 5 comments

3467.

USAID inspector fired after revealing $500M in food aid about to spoil (independent.co.uk)

15 points by consumer451 on Feb 12, 2025 | 5 comments

3468.

Conflicts of interest in climate change science (jessicaweinkle.substack.com)

15 points by ed-209 on Feb 21, 2025 | 5 comments

3469.

San Francisco tech giant Autodesk cuts 1,350 jobs as part of move toward AI (sfchronicle.com)

15 points by bookofjoe on Feb 28, 2025 | 5 comments

3470.

NWS Public Weather API (weather.gov)

15 points by mrguyorama on Feb 7, 2025 | 4 comments

3471.

Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order (axios.com)

15 points by cwwc on Feb 10, 2025 | 4 comments

3472.

Peter Thiel's Apocalypse Dreams (thenerdreich.com)

15 points by hermitcrab on Feb 10, 2025 | 4 comments

3473.

Trump administration set to purchase $400M worth of armored Teslas (npr.org)

15 points by binarno_sp on Feb 13, 2025 | 4 comments

3474.

150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits (wired.com)

15 points by ConfusedDog on Feb 18, 2025 | 4 comments

3475.

American Democracy Is Doomed (2015) (vox.com)

15 points by klooney on Feb 22, 2025 | 4 comments

3476.

Leaked Windsurf System Prompt (simonwillison.net)

15 points by bobbiechen on Feb 25, 2025 | 4 comments

3477.

New York is rejecting a federal demand to stop its $9 Manhattan toll (lohud.com)

15 points by geox on Feb 27, 2025 | 4 comments

3478.

Elon's Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits the US Government (techdirt.com)

15 points by _tk_ on Feb 1, 2025 | 3 comments

3479.

Tesla's departure from reality, in one chart (ft.com)

15 points by belter on Feb 2, 2025 | 3 comments

3480.

Elon Musk's Attempt to Control the Treasury System Is Incredibly Dangerous (rollingstone.com)

15 points by brunohaid on Feb 3, 2025 | 3 comments