HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

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

1975 points by smnrg on Apr 5, 2025 | 1387 comments

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

1934 points by healsdata on Apr 16, 2025 | 1094 comments

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

1877 points by belter on Apr 2, 2025 | 3602 comments

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Getting forked by Microsoft (philiplaine.com)

1865 points by phillebaba on Apr 21, 2025 | 998 comments

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Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

1825 points by dang on Apr 2, 2025 | 462 comments

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

1817 points by PaulHoule on Apr 7, 2025 | 403 comments

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Apache ECharts (echarts.apache.org)

1658 points by tomtomistaken on Apr 8, 2025 | 250 comments

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

1560 points by lleims on Apr 28, 2025 | 1163 comments

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

1525 points by saeedesmaili on Apr 11, 2025 | 609 comments

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

1511 points by scaredpelican on Apr 14, 2025 | 606 comments

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

1503 points by participant3 on Apr 3, 2025 | 898 comments

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

1454 points by kwindla on Apr 25, 2025 | 1297 comments

13.

Someone at YouTube needs glasses (jayd.ml)

1421 points by jaydenmilne 11 months ago | 694 comments

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

1401 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 23, 2025 | 394 comments

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

1391 points by impish9208 on Apr 14, 2025 | 1403 comments

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

1371 points by yett on Apr 23, 2025 | 298 comments

17.

The Llama 4 herd (ai.meta.com)

1235 points by georgehill on Apr 5, 2025 | 658 comments

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

1214 points by jbegley on Apr 11, 2025 | 962 comments

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

1213 points by tosh on Apr 6, 2025 | 247 comments

20.

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

1171 points by rbanffy on Apr 15, 2025 | 542 comments

21.

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

1114 points by namukang on Apr 11, 2025 | 989 comments

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Gemini 2.5 Flash (developers.googleblog.com)

1076 points by meetpateltech on Apr 17, 2025 | 560 comments

23.

I use zip bombs to protect my server (idiallo.com)

1074 points by foxfired on Apr 28, 2025 | 447 comments

24.

Careless People (pluralistic.net)

1071 points by Aldipower on Apr 24, 2025 | 537 comments

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

1013 points by todsacerdoti on Apr 23, 2025 | 530 comments

26.

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

1005 points by vinhnx on Apr 12, 2025 | 819 comments

27.

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

1004 points by eterps on Apr 25, 2025 | 940 comments

28.

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

987 points by simonw on Apr 26, 2025 | 433 comments

29.

Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python (runpyxl.com)

983 points by hwpythonner on Apr 28, 2025 | 265 comments

30.

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

981 points by brgross on Apr 8, 2025 | 169 comments