HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

What if we made advertising illegal? (simone.org)

1970 points by smnrg 3 weeks ago | 1386 comments

2.

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated] (csoonline.com)

1933 points by healsdata 2 weeks ago | 1094 comments

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US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU (bbc.com)

1876 points by belter 3 weeks ago | 3599 comments

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Getting forked by Microsoft (philiplaine.com)

1859 points by phillebaba 1 week ago | 997 comments

5.

Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

1825 points by dang 3 weeks ago | 461 comments

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Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town (tokyoweekender.com)

1815 points by PaulHoule 3 weeks ago | 404 comments

7.

Apache ECharts (echarts.apache.org)

1656 points by tomtomistaken 3 weeks ago | 250 comments

8.

But what if I want a faster horse? (rakhim.exotext.com)

1519 points by saeedesmaili 2 weeks ago | 609 comments

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Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal (bbc.com)

1515 points by lleims 1 day ago | 1139 comments

10.

An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)

1500 points by participant3 3 weeks ago | 897 comments

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Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations (old.reddit.com)

1497 points by scaredpelican 2 weeks ago | 600 comments

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A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen (theverge.com)

1431 points by kwindla 4 days ago | 1283 comments

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You wouldn't steal a font (fedi.rib.gay)

1394 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 390 comments

14.

Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes (harvard.edu)

1387 points by impish9208 2 weeks ago | 1401 comments

15.

How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 (cookieplmonster.github.io)

1364 points by yett 6 days ago | 297 comments

16.

The Llama 4 herd (ai.meta.com)

1235 points by georgehill 3 weeks ago | 657 comments

17.

Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta (dropsitenews.com)

1212 points by jbegley 2 weeks ago | 960 comments

18.

Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover (standardebooks.org)

1211 points by tosh 3 weeks ago | 247 comments

19.

Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data (npr.org)

1120 points by rbanffy 2 weeks ago | 524 comments

20.

Googler... ex-Googler (nerdy.dev)

1113 points by namukang 2 weeks ago | 987 comments

21.

Gemini 2.5 Flash (developers.googleblog.com)

1073 points by meetpateltech 1 week ago | 557 comments

22.

Careless People (pluralistic.net)

1056 points by Aldipower 5 days ago | 535 comments

23.

DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower (krebsonsecurity.com)

1012 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 528 comments

24.

Google is winning on every AI front (thealgorithmicbridge.com)

1003 points by vinhnx 2 weeks ago | 817 comments

25.

FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities (apnews.com)

999 points by eterps 4 days ago | 935 comments

26.

Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic (theatlantic.com)

980 points by brgross 3 weeks ago | 169 comments

27.

Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining (simonwillison.net)