HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

16951.

Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware? (semiengineering.com)

87 points by stn8188 4 months ago | 115 comments

16952.

John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025' (bbc.com)

87 points by febed 6 months ago | 108 comments

16953.

New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis (santafe.edu)

87 points by Gooblebrai 6 months ago | 106 comments

16954.

The American Nations regions across North America (colinwoodard.com)

87 points by loughnane 9 months ago | 106 comments

16955.

Apple's Assault on Standards (infrequently.org)

87 points by freetonik 9 months ago | 105 comments

16956.

Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected) (euronews.com)

87 points by cs702 1 week ago | 104 comments

16957.

Poor Johnny still won't encrypt (bfswa.substack.com)

87 points by zdw 6 months ago | 104 comments

16958.

New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf] (nickbostrom.com)

87 points by uejfiweun 4 months ago | 102 comments

16959.

Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas" (anthropic.com)

87 points by Philpax 1 month ago | 99 comments

16960.

Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know (cnbc.com)

87 points by koolba 11 months ago | 98 comments

16961.

OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury (arstechnica.com)

87 points by koolba 1 month ago | 92 comments

16962.

Our data shows San Francisco tech workers are working Saturdays (ramp.com)

87 points by hnaccount_rng 9 months ago | 91 comments

16963.

Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage (9to5mac.com)

87 points by _____k 4 months ago | 88 comments

16964.

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble (fluxus.io)

87 points by dreamfactored 11 months ago | 86 comments

16965.

DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May (api-docs.deepseek.com)

87 points by nateb2022 1 month ago | 85 comments

16966.

There is no comfortable reading position (slate.com)

87 points by oumua_don17 5 months ago | 84 comments

16967.

Mary had schizophrenia, then suddenly didn't (newyorker.com)

87 points by fortran77 11 months ago | 84 comments

16968.

The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)

87 points by RickJWagner 3 weeks ago | 82 comments

16969.

As Rocks May Think (evjang.com)

87 points by modeless 4 months ago | 82 comments

16970.

Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland (dw.com)

87 points by lysace 5 months ago | 82 comments

16971.

AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year (newsguardtech.com)

87 points by hydrox24 9 months ago | 81 comments

16972.

Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (blisscast.wordpress.com)

87 points by keepamovin 2 months ago | 75 comments

16973.

We do not break userspace (2012) (lore.kernel.org)

87 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 75 comments

16974.

Claude Code is your customer (calebjohn.xyz)

87 points by mfbx9da4 5 months ago | 74 comments

16975.

The militarization of Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)

87 points by cadertots 10 months ago | 74 comments

16976.

GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100 (github.com)

87 points by adunk 1 month ago | 73 comments

16977.

Anthropic AI tool sparks selloff from software to broader market (bloomberg.com)