HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1291.

Gradual Disempowerment: How Even Incremental AI Progress Poses Existential Risks (arxiv.org)

86 points by mychaelangelo on Feb 1, 2025 | 81 comments

1292.

Microsoft is Getting Rusty [video] (youtube.com)

86 points by weinzierl on Feb 26, 2025 | 70 comments

1293.

We need network societies, not network states (2024) (cip.org)

86 points by tomrod on Feb 5, 2025 | 59 comments

1294.

The Job Market Is Frozen (theatlantic.com)

86 points by aarghh on Feb 27, 2025 | 59 comments

1295.

The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler (theatlantic.com)

86 points by vinnyglennon on Feb 14, 2025 | 27 comments

1296.

Go-msquic: A new QUIC/HTTP3 library for Go (github.com)

86 points by noboruma on Feb 19, 2025 | 25 comments

1297.

Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play (phys.org)

86 points by dnetesn on Feb 28, 2025 | 17 comments

1298.

Website for USAID appears to be offline (reuters.com)

86 points by kbf on Feb 1, 2025 | 11 comments

1299.

Copyright reform is necessary for national security (annas-archive.org)

85 points by artninja1988 on Feb 1, 2025 | 109 comments

1300.

Cybertrucks Are Deadlier Than Infamous Ford Pintos (motherjones.com)

85 points by laurex on Feb 13, 2025 | 68 comments

1301.

Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system (phys.org)

85 points by PaulHoule on Feb 14, 2025 | 58 comments

1302.

Doge Teen with Cybercrime Connections Now Inside Cybersecurity Agency CISA (nextgov.com)

85 points by chonkerz on Feb 20, 2025 | 55 comments

1303.

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest newspaper quits X, now on Bluesky (bsky.app)

85 points by 3adawi on Feb 15, 2025 | 32 comments

1304.

DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier Than (cyberintel.substack.com)

85 points by jc_811 on Feb 14, 2025 | 26 comments

1305.

What enabled us to create AI is the thing it has the power to erase (chrbutler.com)

84 points by delaugust on Feb 12, 2025 | 108 comments

1306.

The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far (hollywoodreporter.com)

84 points by marban on Feb 5, 2025 | 98 comments

1307.

Paxlovid: You'd have expected more (science.org)

84 points by helloworld on Feb 22, 2025 | 84 comments

1308.

Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees (semiwiki.com)

84 points by osnium123 on Feb 23, 2025 | 78 comments

1309.

Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment (frankhecker.com)

84 points by gmays on Feb 18, 2025 | 63 comments

1310.

Understanding Surrogate Pairs: Why Some Windows Filenames Can't Be Read (zaferbalkan.com)

84 points by feldrim on Feb 24, 2025 | 62 comments

1311.

Microsoft Go 1.24 FIPS changes (devblogs.microsoft.com)

84 points by ingve on Feb 6, 2025 | 60 comments

1312.

Trump: "Long Live the King" (twitter.com)

84 points by babelfish on Feb 19, 2025 | 47 comments

1313.

Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle (matle.io)

84 points by m88m on Feb 5, 2025 | 38 comments

1314.

A few words about indie app business (blog.charliemonroe.net)

84 points by msephton on Feb 28, 2025 | 22 comments

1315.

How does fentanyl get into the US? (bbc.com)

83 points by tartoran on Feb 4, 2025 | 191 comments

1316.

Sid Meier's Civilization VII (civilization.2k.com)

83 points by doener on Feb 11, 2025 | 125 comments

1317.

EU regulations to look out for in 2025 (sifted.eu)

83 points by belter on Feb 23, 2025 | 79 comments

1318.

Append-Only Programming (2024) (iafisher.com)

83 points by delifue on Feb 18, 2025 | 50 comments

1319.

Apple is once again advertising on X, more than a year after stopping all ads (appleinsider.com)

83 points by ksec on Feb 13, 2025 | 38 comments

1320.

Muon's magnetic moment exposes a hole in the Standard Model, unless it doesn't (physicsworld.com)

83 points by ColinWright on Feb 27, 2025 | 23 comments