HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

31.

We are destroying software (antirez.com)

1007 points by antirez on Feb 8, 2025 | 622 comments

32.

Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser (github.com)

993 points by goplayoutside on Feb 28, 2025 | 331 comments

33.

Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more (blog.plover.com)

985 points by JNRowe on Feb 10, 2025 | 449 comments

34.

My Life in Weeks (weeks.ginatrapani.org)

982 points by bookofjoe on Feb 15, 2025 | 262 comments

35.

I found a backdoor into my bed (trufflesecurity.com)

980 points by riverdroid on Feb 21, 2025 | 385 comments

36.

What's happening inside the NIH and NSF (science.org)

956 points by rrock on Feb 4, 2025 | 1521 comments

37.

The year I didn't survive (bessstillman.substack.com)

946 points by LaurenSerino on Feb 12, 2025 | 262 comments

38.

Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search (blog.kagi.com)

939 points by b3n on Feb 13, 2025 | 341 comments

39.

El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender (ticotimes.net)

927 points by smallerfish on Feb 4, 2025 | 858 comments

40.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world (thebullshitmachines.com)

927 points by ctbergstrom on Feb 9, 2025 | 604 comments

41.

Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel (lkml.org)

918 points by Mond_ on Feb 7, 2025 | 1018 comments

42.

We were wrong about GPUs (fly.io)

916 points by mxstbr on Feb 14, 2025 | 574 comments

43.

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data (twitter.com)

900 points by notRobot on Feb 28, 2025 | 7 comments

44.

DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data (theatlantic.com)

883 points by perihelions on Feb 20, 2025 | 1667 comments

45.

Software development topics I've changed my mind on (chriskiehl.com)

873 points by belter on Feb 5, 2025 | 773 comments

46.

FFmpeg School of Assembly Language (github.com)

869 points by davikr on Feb 22, 2025 | 220 comments

47.

Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools (danieldelaney.net)

856 points by cryptophreak on Feb 4, 2025 | 414 comments

48.

S1: A $6 R1 competitor? (timkellogg.me)

851 points by tkellogg on Feb 5, 2025 | 414 comments

49.

The hardest working font in Manhattan (aresluna.org)

850 points by robinhouston on Feb 14, 2025 | 118 comments

50.

CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised (insidemedicine.substack.com)

844 points by KittenInABox on Feb 2, 2025 | 721 comments

51.

Hyperspace (hypercritical.co)

844 points by tobr on Feb 25, 2025 | 453 comments

52.

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license" (mozilla.org)

839 points by tomp on Feb 28, 2025 | 9 comments

53.

Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger (cloud.google.com)

835 points by karel-3d on Feb 19, 2025 | 289 comments

54.

Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme (tintin.dlazaro.ca)

834 points by dlazaro on Feb 18, 2025 | 153 comments

55.

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)

823 points by akanet on Feb 20, 2025 | 193 comments

56.

X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links (disruptionist.com)

803 points by confusing3478 on Feb 17, 2025 | 756 comments

57.

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge (neowin.net)

787 points by thombles on Feb 28, 2025 | 514 comments

58.

'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfairly penalised (theguardian.com)

786 points by zeristor on Feb 22, 2025 | 839 comments

59.

When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines (jazco.dev)

784 points by cyndunlop on Feb 19, 2025 | 304 comments

60.

You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023) (infobip.com)

778 points by tonkkatonka on Feb 14, 2025 | 412 comments