HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5041.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2026)

7 points by jon_north 3 weeks ago | 13 comments

5042.

Ask HN: Iran has now been offline for 100 hours. What can we "technically" do?

7 points by us321 1 week ago | 13 comments

5043.

Show HN: I'm 35 and couldn't finish reading articles anymore, so I built this (parsely.obasic.app)

7 points by ggomma 2 weeks ago | 11 comments

5044.

China's Renewable Energy Revolution Is a Mess That Might Save the World (wired.com)

7 points by kalli 3 days ago | 11 comments

5045.

Pilot reports UFO hovering beside jet, leaving air traffic control stunned (foxnews.com)

7 points by sipofwater 4 weeks ago | 11 comments

5046.

New .gov Portal: Foreign Funding in US Higher Education (foreignfundinghighered.gov)

7 points by 737min 2 weeks ago | 10 comments

5047.

Ask HN: How do you verify cron jobs did what they were supposed to?

7 points by BlackPearl02 3 days ago | 9 comments

5048.

Ask HN: What book are you currently reading?

7 points by sujayk_33 3 weeks ago | 9 comments

5049.

The average 50-something American is now worth $1.4M (usatoday.com)

7 points by lxm 6 days ago | 9 comments

5050.

The new vs. used car debate is dead. They're both expensive debt traps (washingtonpost.com)

7 points by pseudolus 2 weeks ago | 9 comments

5051.

Show HN: I Built a YouTube Clone with 1 Prompt (whytube-clone-maker.lovable.app)

7 points by nsemikey 2 weeks ago | 8 comments

5052.

Ask HN: Do you "micro-manage" your agents?

7 points by xinbenlv 2 days ago | 8 comments

5053.

Ask HN: Thinking about memory for AI coding agents

7 points by hoangnnguyen 1 day ago | 8 comments

5054.

Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules

7 points by xinbenlv 2 days ago | 8 comments

5055.

Amthropic CEO claims we are 1yr away where AI can do everything SWEs (twitter.com)

7 points by thewhitetulip 4 days ago | 8 comments

5056.

Oil Tanker Fleeing the Coast Guard Now Listed in Russian Ship Database (nytimes.com)

7 points by JumpCrisscross 3 weeks ago | 8 comments

5057.

An A.I. Startup Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them (nytimes.com)

7 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 7 comments

5058.

The $160k Mechanic Job That Ford Can't Fill (wsj.com)

7 points by sonabinu 2 weeks ago | 7 comments

5059.

Ask HN: When has humanities/history knowledge helped you in tech?

7 points by amadeuswoo 6 days ago | 7 comments

5060.

I Sharted and Understood the Helpful Content Update (wskpf.com)

7 points by amosWeiskopf 3 weeks ago | 7 comments

5061.

Why Rust solves a Problem we no longer have – use AI and Formal Proofs instead (rochuskeller.substack.com)

7 points by Rochus 1 week ago | 7 comments

5062.

Ask HN: Estimating % of dev using coding assistants

7 points by japoneris 1 week ago | 7 comments

5063.

Ask HN: Why no dark mode?

7 points by lejeanvaljean 2 weeks ago | 7 comments

5064.

The latest Firefox version broke ChatGPT website (old.reddit.com)

7 points by vanni 1 week ago | 6 comments

5065.

Ask HN: Why Can't We Make Approved Building Plans Reusable?

7 points by silexia 3 weeks ago | 6 comments

5066.

Show HN: Bucket – Encrypted file sharing for people who live in the terminal (bucketlabs.org)

7 points by bucket_ 8 hours ago | 6 comments

5067.

Europe's executives need to skill up to solve our total US cloud dependency (berthub.eu)

7 points by sam_lowry_ 2 weeks ago | 6 comments

5068.

AxonFlow – a control plane for production LLM and agent workflows (github.com)