HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12121.

Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal (politico.com)

134 points by impish9208 2 months ago | 141 comments

12122.

AI optimism is a class privilege (joshcollinsworth.com)

134 points by ragall 4 months ago | 137 comments

12123.

I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft (vitalik.eth.limo)

134 points by bpierre 11 months ago | 137 comments

12124.

UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy' (smithsonianmag.com)

134 points by pseudolus 5 months ago | 128 comments

12125.

Rotten Dot Com (theparisreview.org)

134 points by lordgrenville 1 month ago | 126 comments

12126.

Claude.ai down (status.claude.com)

134 points by rob 2 months ago | 126 comments

12127.

RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard (gist.github.com)

134 points by jdauriemma 3 months ago | 126 comments

12128.

US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say (reuters.com)

134 points by cdrnsf 3 months ago | 125 comments

12129.

US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care (theguardian.com)

134 points by NomDePlum 10 months ago | 125 comments

12130.

How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development (alfy.blog)

134 points by jicea 8 months ago | 124 comments

12131.

American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history (bigthink.com)

134 points by yowzadave 11 months ago | 121 comments

12132.

Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights (element.io)

134 points by Arathorn 8 months ago | 114 comments

12133.

Arenas in Rust (russellw.github.io)

134 points by welovebunnies 8 months ago | 114 comments

12134.

World Happiness Report 2026 (worldhappiness.report)

134 points by ChrisArchitect 3 months ago | 107 comments

12135.

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks (lwn.net)

134 points by jwilk 6 days ago | 101 comments

12136.

Be careful with Go struct embedding (mattjhall.co.uk)

134 points by mattjhall 9 months ago | 100 comments

12137.

The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models (arxiv.org)

134 points by thatxliner 8 months ago | 99 comments

12138.

Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers (padailypost.com)

134 points by christhecaribou 9 months ago | 99 comments

12139.

Claude may require identity verification in some cases (support.claude.com)

134 points by zxilly 2 months ago | 95 comments

12140.

Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes (theguardian.com)

134 points by novaRom 4 months ago | 95 comments

12141.

Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025) (theverge.com)

134 points by cdrnsf 1 month ago | 89 comments

12142.

When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe (practical.engineering)

134 points by tape_measure 5 months ago | 88 comments

12143.

The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi (csa-iot.org)

134 points by paulatreides 7 months ago | 84 comments

12144.

Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js (wiz.io)

134 points by gonepivoting 6 months ago | 77 comments

12145.

Kona EV Hacking (techno-fandom.org)

134 points by AnnikaL 3 months ago | 75 comments

12146.

Ad-tech is fascist tech (pluralistic.net)

134 points by only_in_america 3 months ago | 73 comments

12147.

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic (hayzam.com)

134 points by vermaden 4 months ago | 67 comments

12148.

A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf] (mirandaheath.website)

134 points by susam 1 month ago | 66 comments

12149.

Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring (bustermq.sh)

134 points by jbaptiste 5 months ago | 65 comments

12150.

Chain of thought monitorability: A new and fragile opportunity for AI safety (arxiv.org)

134 points by mfiguiere 11 months ago | 64 comments