HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

661.

Micropayments as a reality check for news sites (blog.zgp.org)

199 points by speckx 2 weeks ago | 394 comments

662.

A case for Go as the best language for AI agents (getbruin.com)

199 points by karakanb 5 days ago | 289 comments

663.

How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD? (devblogs.microsoft.com)

199 points by ingve 3 weeks ago | 159 comments

664.

Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network (truthout.org)

198 points by cdrnsf 3 weeks ago | 150 comments

665.

Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia (makie.org)

198 points by simondanisch 2 weeks ago | 94 comments

666.

Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel (twitter.com)

198 points by CGMthrowaway 3 weeks ago | 50 comments

667.

This time is different (shkspr.mobi)

197 points by speckx 1 week ago | 379 comments

668.

Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case (northdakotamonitor.com)

195 points by gmays 5 days ago | 224 comments

669.

Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)

195 points by todsacerdoti 2 weeks ago | 131 comments

670.

Setting up phones is a nightmare (joelchrono.xyz)

194 points by bariumbitmap 1 week ago | 249 comments

671.

Show HN: Ghostty-based terminal with vertical tabs and notifications (github.com)

194 points by lawrencechen 2 weeks ago | 76 comments

672.

Two different tricks for fast LLM inference (seangoedecke.com)

194 points by swah 3 weeks ago | 67 comments

673.

Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)

194 points by pseudolus 1 week ago | 61 comments

674.

Show HN: Stacked Game of Life (stacked-game-of-life.koenvangilst.nl)

194 points by vnglst 1 week ago | 27 comments

675.

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review (theverge.com)

193 points by duggan 4 days ago | 151 comments

676.

A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k (log.jasongodfrey.info)

193 points by heifer 3 weeks ago | 131 comments

677.

Graphics Programming Resources (develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app)

193 points by abetusk 4 days ago | 23 comments

678.

Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral (bbc.com)

192 points by tartoran 3 days ago | 251 comments

679.

Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators (blog.prosody.im)

192 points by zaik 3 weeks ago | 209 comments

680.

Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss (cell.com)

192 points by randycupertino 3 weeks ago | 151 comments

681.

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus (bbc.com)

192 points by dabinat 2 weeks ago | 128 comments

682.

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser (retrotick.com)

192 points by lqs_ 1 week ago | 61 comments

683.

I swear the UFO is coming any minute (experimental-history.com)

192 points by Ariarule 2 weeks ago | 57 comments

684.

So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink (livescience.com)

191 points by Brajeshwar 3 weeks ago | 82 comments

685.

Physicists developing a quantum computer that’s entirely open source (physics.aps.org)

191 points by tzury 5 days ago | 34 comments

686.

A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong (aol.com)

190 points by paulpauper 2 weeks ago | 273 comments

687.

I resigned from OpenAI (twitter.com)

190 points by mmaia 13 hours ago | 132 comments

688.

Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026 (blog.cloudflare.com)

190 points by nomaxx117 2 weeks ago | 125 comments

689.

Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase (understandlegacycode.com)

190 points by foenix 1 week ago | 84 comments

690.

GNU Texmacs (texmacs.org)

190 points by remywang 1 week ago | 61 comments