HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

11971.

Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price (finance.yahoo.com)

136 points by pera 6 months ago | 127 comments

11972.

A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)

136 points by m-hodges 11 months ago | 121 comments

11973.

Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal (bbc.com)

136 points by tartoran 3 months ago | 119 comments

11974.

It is an amazing time for programmers (46elks.com)

136 points by jlundberg 3 weeks ago | 115 comments

11975.

The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car (openwheelworld.net)

136 points by 1659447091 6 months ago | 112 comments

11976.

Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends (nytimes.com)

136 points by fleahunter 6 months ago | 110 comments

11977.

The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions (phoronix.com)

136 points by keyle 7 months ago | 97 comments

11978.

Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland (theguardian.com)

136 points by bookofjoe 1 month ago | 94 comments

11979.

Native Americans had dice 12k years ago (nbcnews.com)

136 points by delichon 2 months ago | 87 comments

11980.

PSA: Libxslt is unmaintained and has 5 unpatched security bugs (vuxml.freebsd.org)

136 points by burnt-resistor 9 months ago | 86 comments

11981.

Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH (github.com)

136 points by sdovan1 6 months ago | 85 comments

11982.

Show HN: Pyscn – Python code quality analyzer for vibe coders (github.com)

136 points by d-yoda 8 months ago | 84 comments

11983.

Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet (synacktiv.com)

136 points by p_stuart82 1 month ago | 82 comments

11984.

CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs (chipsandcheese.com)

136 points by rbanffy 5 months ago | 82 comments

11985.

Perpetual futures, explained (bitsaboutmoney.com)

136 points by sirodoht 6 months ago | 79 comments

11986.

US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows (bbc.com)

136 points by johnbarron 3 months ago | 78 comments

11987.

Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping (remyhax.xyz)

136 points by jerrythegerbil 3 weeks ago | 77 comments

11988.

Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider (joachimschipper.nl)

136 points by JoachimSchipper 1 month ago | 77 comments

11989.

The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure (technicshistory.com)

136 points by cfmcdonald 6 months ago | 76 comments

11990.

Subreply – An open source text-only social network (github.com)

136 points by lcnmrn 11 months ago | 76 comments

11991.

Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015) (cringely.com)

136 points by suioir 7 months ago | 71 comments

11992.

Encrypting files with passkeys and age (words.filippo.io)

136 points by thadt 11 months ago | 71 comments

11993.

How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs (quant.engineering)

136 points by rundef 6 months ago | 70 comments

11994.

Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true (github.com)

136 points by Bogdanp 11 months ago | 70 comments

11995.

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself (quantamagazine.org)

136 points by ibobev 1 week ago | 68 comments

11996.

Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss (phys.org)

136 points by Wingy 9 months ago | 65 comments

11997.

Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com)

136 points by sambigeara 1 month ago | 63 comments

11998.

A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero (johndcook.com)

136 points by tzury 6 months ago | 63 comments

11999.

Everyone's trying vectors and graphs for AI memory. We went back to SQL

136 points by Arindam1729 9 months ago | 63 comments

12000.

Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle (simonwillison.net)

136 points by stared 4 months ago | 61 comments