HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

421.

CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins (nytimes.com)

632 points by doctaj 4 months ago | 798 comments

422.

Grok3 Launch [video] (x.com)

631 points by travelhead 4 months ago | 1354 comments

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The best programmers I know (endler.dev)

631 points by kiyanwang 2 months ago | 307 comments

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Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored (deno.com)

631 points by healsdata 4 months ago | 184 comments

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German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph (abstimmung.eu)

630 points by mxschll 2 months ago | 169 comments

426.

Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic (washingtonpost.com)

629 points by perihelions 2 months ago | 563 comments

427.

I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back (howtogeek.com)

629 points by Vinnl 5 months ago | 520 comments

428.

WordPress Is in Trouble (anderegg.ca)

628 points by ulrischa 5 months ago | 433 comments

429.

Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools (github.com)

626 points by mike210 1 month ago | 334 comments

430.

Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll (focusfurnace.com)

625 points by hello12343214 3 months ago | 191 comments

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Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US (bloomberg.com)

623 points by helsinkiandrew 3 months ago | 614 comments

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The Guardian flourishes without a paywall (nymag.com)

623 points by bookofjoe 2 months ago | 519 comments

433.

Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub (github.com)

623 points by petercooper 6 days ago | 137 comments

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An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system (maknee.github.io)

623 points by sebg 2 months ago | 108 comments

435.

I tried making artificial sunlight at home (victorpoughon.fr)

622 points by fouronnes3 2 months ago | 233 comments

436.

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review (cs.cmu.edu)

622 points by avinassh 5 months ago | 209 comments

437.

Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii (blog.infected.systems)

622 points by edent 1 month ago | 104 comments

438.

Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office (twitter.com)

621 points by kappi 3 months ago | 490 comments

439.

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (blog.jetbrains.com)

621 points by AlexeyBrin 1 month ago | 385 comments

440.

Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers

621 points by latexr 3 months ago | 188 comments

441.

I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)

620 points by Fred34 2 months ago | 580 comments

442.

“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams (spectrum.ieee.org)

620 points by jnord 3 months ago | 514 comments

443.

Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' (techcrunch.com)

620 points by magicalhippo 5 months ago | 495 comments

444.

Python’s new t-strings (davepeck.org)

620 points by tambourine_man 1 month ago | 466 comments

445.

A critical look at MCP (raz.sh)

620 points by ablekh 1 month ago | 334 comments

446.

Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets (kenney.nl)

620 points by memalign 5 months ago | 50 comments

447.

Accountability Sinks (250bpm.substack.com)

618 points by msustrik 1 month ago | 392 comments

448.

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance (washingtonpost.com)