HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

19231.

How the US got left behind in the electric car race (bbc.com)

72 points by inerte 8 months ago | 143 comments

19232.

Frying Eggs and Air Quality Tests (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

72 points by crescit_eundo 9 months ago | 142 comments

19233.

New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure (reuters.com)

72 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 1 month ago | 125 comments

19234.

Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad? (npr.org)

72 points by pseudolus 6 months ago | 124 comments

19235.

I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating (twitter.com)

72 points by pr337h4m 8 months ago | 123 comments

19236.

SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading (qz.com)

72 points by andsoitis 3 weeks ago | 115 comments

19237.

Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (pluralistic.net)

72 points by hn_acker 6 months ago | 109 comments

19238.

Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page (thenational.scot)

72 points by lehi 8 months ago | 109 comments

19239.

We tested 20 LLMs for ideological bias, revealing distinct alignments (anomify.ai)

72 points by deepvibrations 8 months ago | 102 comments

19240.

US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero (electrek.co)

72 points by dogscatstrees 1 month ago | 97 comments

19241.

Italy's pizza detectives (bbc.com)

72 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 97 comments

19242.

Meta’s chaotic AI strategy (wired.com)

72 points by momentmaker 3 weeks ago | 86 comments

19243.

Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing (arstechnica.com)

72 points by Volundr 10 months ago | 86 comments

19244.

Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices (reuters.com)

72 points by delichon 1 month ago | 85 comments

19245.

Why No AI Games? (franklantz.substack.com)

72 points by pavel_lishin 4 months ago | 85 comments

19246.

Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer (til.andrew-quinn.me)

72 points by hiAndrewQuinn 6 months ago | 84 comments

19247.

AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated by EU citizens (aboutamazon.eu)

72 points by pulisse 11 months ago | 84 comments

19248.

Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews (qodo.ai)

72 points by marsh_mellow 10 months ago | 80 comments

19249.

Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May (reddit.com)

72 points by seam_carver 2 months ago | 78 comments

19250.

ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US (bloomberg.com)

72 points by saubeidl 5 months ago | 78 comments

19251.

The gruesome new data on tech jobs (businessinsider.com)

72 points by pseudolus 7 months ago | 78 comments

19252.

Constrained languages are easier to optimize (jyn.dev)

72 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 75 comments

19253.

Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017) (pbs.org)

72 points by Tomte 3 months ago | 74 comments

19254.

Zuckerberg's "fix" for child safety could end anonymous internet access for all (reclaimthenet.org)

72 points by aestetix 4 months ago | 73 comments

19255.

Why airlines are always going bankrupt (davidoks.blog)

72 points by bko 2 months ago | 72 comments

19256.

Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better? (nngroup.com)

72 points by seanwilson 5 months ago | 72 comments

19257.

2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results (survey.stackoverflow.co)

72 points by colingw 11 months ago | 72 comments

19258.

Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] (reich.hms.harvard.edu)

72 points by Metacelsus 2 months ago | 70 comments

19259.

CBP says it can't comply with refund order (cnbc.com)

72 points by DivingForGold 3 months ago | 69 comments

19260.

Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020) (rogerebert.com)

72 points by walterbell 10 months ago | 68 comments