HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

811.

Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues (bbc.com)

140 points by tartoran on May 12, 2025 | 81 comments

812.

The value isn't in the code (2022) (jonayre.uk)

140 points by fragmede 11 months ago | 76 comments

813.

Typed Lisp, a Primer (alhassy.com)

140 points by todsacerdoti on May 4, 2025 | 66 comments

814.

Sea snail teeth top Kevlar, titanium as strongest material (2015) (cbc.ca)

140 points by thunderbong on May 2, 2025 | 60 comments

815.

Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers (cnbc.com)

140 points by jmsflknr on May 13, 2025 | 30 comments

816.

The History and Legacy of Visual Basic (retool.com)

139 points by ibobev on May 10, 2025 | 129 comments

817.

What's working for YC companies since the AI boom (jamesin.substack.com)

139 points by jseidel 11 months ago | 116 comments

818.

Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023) (smithsonianmag.com)

139 points by michalpleban on May 6, 2025 | 71 comments

819.

Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (wordonfire.org)

139 points by danielam 11 months ago | 68 comments

820.

A man who visited every country in the world without boarding a plane (2023) (theguardian.com)

139 points by thunderbong 11 months ago | 61 comments

821.

Understanding Transformers via N-gram Statistics (arxiv.org)

139 points by pona-a 11 months ago | 16 comments

822.

WavePhoenix – Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol (github.com)

139 points by zdw 11 months ago | 14 comments

823.

Apple card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts (2021) (dcurt.is)

138 points by thanatosmin 11 months ago | 101 comments

824.

Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens (arxiv.org)

138 points by nyrikki 11 months ago | 66 comments

825.

Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes (store.steampowered.com)

138 points by poetril 11 months ago | 30 comments

826.

A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant (lwn.net)

138 points by pabs3 11 months ago | 7 comments

827.

Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US (es.wired.com)

137 points by mpweiher on May 10, 2025 | 182 comments

828.

Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?

137 points by lopatin on May 8, 2025 | 136 comments

829.

The Newark airport crisis (theverge.com)

137 points by 01-_- 11 months ago | 127 comments

830.

Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study (neurosciencenews.com)

137 points by rmason on May 7, 2025 | 78 comments

831.

Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy (chipsandcheese.com)

137 points by rbanffy 11 months ago | 66 comments

832.

A shower thought turned into a Collatz visualization (abstractnonsense.com)

137 points by abstractbill 11 months ago | 26 comments

833.

Biff – a batteries-included web framework for Clojure (biffweb.com)

137 points by TheWiggles 11 months ago | 23 comments

834.

The Fall of Roam (2022) (every.to)

136 points by ingve 11 months ago | 98 comments

835.

Past, present, and future of Sorbet type syntax (blog.jez.io)

136 points by PaulHoule on May 9, 2025 | 89 comments

836.

AI code review: Should the author be the reviewer? (greptile.com)

136 points by sebg on May 1, 2025 | 84 comments

837.

Foundation DB Record Layer SQL API (foundationdb.github.io)

136 points by fidotron on May 7, 2025 | 75 comments

838.

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020) (vintagecomputing.com)

136 points by colinbartlett on May 10, 2025 | 72 comments

839.

32 bits that changed microprocessor design (spectrum.ieee.org)

136 points by mdp2021 11 months ago | 53 comments

840.

Show HN: I made a Zero-config tool to visualize your code (staying.fun)

136 points by lezhu 11 months ago | 47 comments