HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

8731.

Prediction: Microsoft will eventually ship a Windows-themed Linux distro (gamesbymason.com)

197 points by AndyKelley 9 months ago | 262 comments

8732.

Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency (nbcchicago.com)

197 points by josephcsible 7 months ago | 257 comments

8733.

200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop (vermaden.wordpress.com)

197 points by vermaden 9 months ago | 212 comments

8734.

UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating (theguardian.com)

197 points by beardyw 10 months ago | 207 comments

8735.

Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates (jack.bio)

197 points by lafond 10 months ago | 206 comments

8736.

Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) (forum.hackliberty.org)

197 points by Flere-Imsaho 10 months ago | 196 comments

8737.

Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation (smithsonianmag.com)

197 points by bookofjoe 2 months ago | 186 comments

8738.

Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)

197 points by jllyhill 2 months ago | 184 comments

8739.

The locals don't know (quarter--mile.com)

197 points by herbertl 5 months ago | 176 comments

8740.

'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds (polygon.com)

197 points by cvoss 3 weeks ago | 161 comments

8741.

How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart (npr.org)

197 points by srameshc 9 months ago | 146 comments

8742.

US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)

197 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 months ago | 139 comments

8743.

Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30) (web-rewind.com)

197 points by thushanfernando 7 months ago | 132 comments

8744.

Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS (wiki.csswg.org)

197 points by OuterVale 10 months ago | 131 comments

8745.

AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release (aisle.com)

197 points by mmsc 9 months ago | 130 comments

8746.

An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop (anderegg.ca)

197 points by ExMachina73 3 months ago | 128 comments

8747.

Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B (fortune.com)

197 points by measurablefunc 3 months ago | 116 comments

8748.

They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7 (kevinboone.me)

197 points by andsoitis 14 hours ago | 110 comments

8749.

Linode Security Incident (status.linode.com)

197 points by lacoolj 1 week ago | 109 comments

8750.

I built a faster Notion in Rust (imedadel.com)

197 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 107 comments

8751.

SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video] (youtube.com)

197 points by CharlesW 1 month ago | 105 comments

8752.

Coyote v. Acme (1990) (newyorker.com)

197 points by ChrisArchitect 2 months ago | 104 comments

8753.

How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024) (edw.is)

197 points by jakogut 11 months ago | 104 comments

8754.

AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago (tomshardware.com)

197 points by ksec 10 months ago | 101 comments

8755.

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack (404media.co)

197 points by doener 4 months ago | 97 comments

8756.

Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying (karllorey.com)

197 points by lorey 9 months ago | 93 comments

8757.

Project Vend: Phase Two (anthropic.com)

197 points by kubami 10 months ago | 92 comments

8758.

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits (debasishg.github.io)