HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

20581.

I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid (joshtronic.com)

66 points by joshtronic 1 week ago | 45 comments

20582.

Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't (nytimes.com)

66 points by pseudolus 1 month ago | 45 comments

20583.

Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states (arstechnica.com)

66 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | 45 comments

20584.

Stop using low DNS TTLs (blog.apnic.net)

66 points by swills 7 months ago | 45 comments

20585.

IRIX Introduction (sgistuff.net)

66 points by naves 10 months ago | 44 comments

20586.

Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C# (nockawa.github.io)

66 points by vyrotek 5 months ago | 43 comments

20587.

The Monad Called Free (2014) (blog.sigfpe.com)

66 points by romes 7 months ago | 43 comments

20588.

Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction (newrepublic.com)

66 points by Hooke 6 months ago | 42 comments

20589.

Code Storage by the Pierre Computer Company (code.storage)

66 points by admp 7 months ago | 42 comments

20590.

3D solar tower increases capacity factor 50%, triples solar surface area (pv-magazine.com)

66 points by geox 10 months ago | 42 comments

20591.

Modeling Others' Minds as Code (arxiv.org)

66 points by PaulHoule 11 months ago | 42 comments

20592.

I made ChatGPT and Google tell I'm a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion (bsky.app)

66 points by doener 7 months ago | 41 comments

20593.

In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation (23andmedatasettlement.com)

66 points by toomuchtodo 9 months ago | 41 comments

20594.

A whale necropolis has been found (nature.com)

66 points by tigerlily 3 months ago | 40 comments

20595.

My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin (theguardian.com)

66 points by Anon84 3 months ago | 40 comments

20596.

YouTube Is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore (joshgriffiths.site)

66 points by speckx 10 months ago | 40 comments

20597.

Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024) (gregorygundersen.com)

66 points by fuzzythinker 1 week ago | 39 comments

20598.

Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate (distrowatch.com)

66 points by hexagonsuns 7 months ago | 39 comments

20599.

Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICEBlock (text.npr.org)

66 points by pera 11 months ago | 39 comments

20600.

Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful (2025) (arxiv.org)

66 points by florianherrengt 1 month ago | 38 comments

20601.

Plasma Tunnels Reveal How Dying Satellites Fall to Earth (spectrum.ieee.org)

66 points by marc__1 2 months ago | 38 comments

20602.

Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity–and the Backlash Has Begun (singularityhub.com)

66 points by cdrnsf 4 months ago | 38 comments

20603.

US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency (theguardian.com)

66 points by vinni2 5 months ago | 38 comments

20604.

A tale of two path separators (alexwlchan.net)

66 points by dbaupp 3 months ago | 37 comments

20605.

It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for JRR Tolkien (zig.art)

66 points by IdahoSpring 5 months ago | 37 comments

20606.

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon Ice Age (theregister.com)

66 points by dlipovetsky 8 months ago | 37 comments

20607.

Reform UK leader 'in real trouble' against Count Binface (mirror.co.uk)

66 points by jjgreen 2 months ago | 36 comments

20608.

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